musicman

I'm Annise Parker and I approve this message.

there is no such thing as a high quality chinese buffet.

With businesses moving to the suburbs, the employees are just following.

Homes outside the beltway draw 8 out of 10 buyers

 

http://www.chron.com/homes/neighborhood-survey-2013/article/Homes-outside-Loop-610-draw-8-out-of-10-buyers-4432802.php

 

More than 80 percent of the homes that sold last year were outside of Beltway 8, according to a study commissioned by the Houston Chronicle. Compare that to just 6 percent inside Loop 610 and 12.8 percent between the Loop and the Beltway.

Every community meeting I have attended wanted to SLOW traffic down on Westheimer!

Avondale Civic put in one of it's CIP proposals for a flashing yellow light at the Stanford/Westheimer intersection, hoping to slow traffic down for Katz customers that cross street to get to their cars.--it was denied-

 

With lower Westheimer being served by the fire station located on Elgin in Midtown, I can understand why it was denied.

You should check out the Glendale Cemetery.  It's locked however a neighboring business has keys to the gate.   Names you will run into include Milby, Deady, Briscoe, Allen, etc.  It's a small cemetery but some of the neighboring businesses have made improvements including the fence so that its history will not be forgotten.  Some of the graves date to the Republic of Texas days which is really unique.  If you can't go out trying looking at findagrave.com for the cemetery.  It's pretty well documented photographically.

This was more long term cheap housing.

They are referring to the rendering

is that what it's called now? Lol

all i needed was my own portable ac! lol

Main Street Square is probably the least active section of downtown. Glad to hear that you'd like the rest of Main Street to be just as active.

 

Like I said, be careful what you ask for. If you and your FB friends believe after careful consideration that expanding Main Street Square from I-10 to US 59 is a winner, then y'all know who to contact. Honestly, I don't think I'll be signing your iPetition.

You are right The skaters went through this in the 90s when City Council was attempting to ban skating downtown. The problem was that a small group of skaters were causing property damage by grinding. So instead of banning grinding, they wanted to ban skating as a whole and a large group of us spoke before city council in order to allow skating to continue.

Hmmm so first you are scared of cars and now you are scared they can't pass you?  This is a bad idea period.

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whew i just remembered this.  i will make an effort to go on the 31st.

thanks for posting this. this was the best laugh i've had in a long while. I'm emailing this to my mom and see what her response will be. I'm sure the thread will be closed.

Yeah, there are some splinter groups from Critical Mass. I understand that one of them is the trouble making group. Other groups have blacklisted members of that group precisely to keep that stuff from happening. There are bad apples in every barrel.

well i guess the 2 to 3 ton difference might get rid of a few bad apples.

Yes, I do feel better that an ordinance was passed that already existed in most other major Texas cities. Passing closer than 3 feet is dangerous, like an unsafe lane change or speeding.

I'm not sure i can make a living off of mindreading but you seem to perpetuate the idea.

We have a name for the tequila bar now, and the Trigger Happy bar is a brand new announcement, so yet another bar in the area. Wow.

surprising name. lots of negative connotations.

it would appear you have never been here during a flood.  we are not san antonio.  the referenced bayou is actually used for drainage.

I almost hit a motorist who ran a stop sign. I've had motorists yell obscenities at me as they attempt to cut me off in traffic.

 

The difference is that the people you complain of are operating vehicles that weigh 2 to 3 tons less than the ones doing it to me. Further, there are literally millions of motorists on the roads daily versus literally thousands of cyclists. 

 

Would you like some cream with your hot steaming cup of manufactured outrage?

I'm not the outraged bunch who complained to city council in order to get this ordinance passed that ultimately won't make the cyclists safer. But I'm sure they feel better now.

The ordinance provides no new protection for a cyclist engaged in breaking a law.

It provide no new protection period. Just passed to make cyclists feel safer. Our current administration loves these type of ordinances.

Critical Mass is really not a problem in this city. In some places, yes, they break as many laws as they can, but Houston's Critical Mass has always been completely respectful of other people using the road. I've never seen them take more than one lane (on roads with multiple lanes) and they have a good relationship with HPD.

And i've seen them go through red lights yelling obscenties at cars who have the green light and are honking at the cyclists. That's NOT being respectful to me. I personally almost hit a rider who decided to cross in the middle of a block in front of a parked vehicle which made him impossible to see until he was already in my lane.

I hope these are new owners since the Distillery.  They sucked.

This is just another ordinance to appease a certain group.  Status quo rules.

 

Groups like critical mass are the ones that will ruin it for all.  Blatantly violating traffic rules and then claiming cars are the problem. 

Yes, it's an assumption that it's the same corridor, but the attached article describes the route and it sounds like it's a correct assumption.  It also breaks out the cost for the BRT at $177.5 million which seems much more reasonable. 

 

http://www.uptown-houston.com/images/uploads/HouChron%2003%2024%2013a.pdf

 

they are adding HOV ramps and hov lanes to 610 to the north transit center and adding ramps to the 59 south hov lane to get to the south transit center.

why is it dependent on extending the tirz to memorial park? where is the 4.4 mile number coming from? seems like someone is assuming the old metro corridor is the path.

I'm wondering if closing it was the best ending for it. If Mary's had cleaned up its act and starting serving the modern Montrose crowd, even if the bar was still gay-friendly, you wouldn't hear the end of people screaming about it being a "yuppie sellout" or whatever.

what is the modern montrose crowd? can't go anywhere now without children. like being in the burbs.