CoolBuddy06

This. is. insane! Is Minute Maid Park okay?

Thought I'd bump up this topic with project website:

http://www.hardyconnector.org/

By the way can anyone tell me which HB&T rail line was relocated? I'd like to see the before and after map.

Bumping this topic up since we've had more Starbuck's locations, and I'm looking for a good place to study for like 5-hour stretches, 3 times/week.

And the hbj could probably explain better that texas childrens west tower connects every floor to the 1954 building they are talking about which is why tch may want it. It is impossible to tell when you leave tch and go to St Lukes at that spot. In fact the McDonalds is right there too.

It is Abercrombie building. back in the days when I work in TCH I always turn to tour guide when giving directions to clueless visitors. "Right here you're in TCH, one step further you're in St Luke's", I'd say.

Not for the initial phase, which is what we'll see built soon. The reversible toll lane will snake through the current interchange as you can see in this exhibit:

http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/hou/sh288_us59/harris_county_clear_creek.pdf

 

Ultimate plans do call for the interchange to be rebuilt when the reversible toll lane is expanded and rebuilt into a 4 lane tollroad. When that happens, the toll lanes will run through the interchange where the current 288 mainlanes are, and the 288 mainlanes will be relocated to run through the edges of the interchange.

http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/hou/sh288_us59/bw8_ih610.pdf

Thanks for the clarification. I forgot that 'little' detail about the initial phase.

So will the 610 and 288 interchange be rebuilt then to accommodate the new lanes?

Absolutely. It's in the plan.

I don't work in the oil industry but I'm interested in the dynamics nonetheless. Here's my question: how can we have a boom when the price is high and not have a bust when the price is low, as some of these articles are suggesting?

We moved last August and used that opportunity to cut DirecTV. We don't watch it much anyway. We now watch Netflix, NBC shows online and YouTube and play more board games etc. We couldn't be happier.

If I can get a box that can record from broadcast channels like cable companies DVRs do, I'd be set for life.

Great ideas here!

1. Tunnell 45 from Pierce lelvated to I-10 interchange.

2. Fix the bottleneck at 610 southbound to 59 interchange

3. Plant trees along Braes bayou.

Medical. I wanted to be specific but what's the point? We're drowned by architects and engineers already.

Back on topic, I'm excited about this extension and the development that I hope comes with it. And personally, it gives my brother-in-law more flexibility in picking his classes at HCC without me having to drive him around.

Memorial Hermann is planning for a 12-story trauma center in that space between the ER and TMC garage 4 on Cambridge opposite the zoo. They also plan to tear down Robertson Pavilion and build it into something bigger and modern. This is from grapevine. I'll find out more.

Sad. I was waiting for this to open so my wife can stop driving to work. Why can't the city arrange for something like Woodlands Express buses? Or is that what they mean by making park & ride a reality without Metro?

Here is just one of the really "counter-intuitive" things about the segregation era many people today find hard to believe.  Before court-ordered desegregation of schools and almost every other aspect of our lives, whites and blacks lived in their own socially and geographically separate communities.

 

In those times, there were more black-owned businesses, black unemployment and crime rates were very low, and the graduation rate in their separate but equal high schools was about equal to the rate in the white schools. Sociologists say it was because black kids were born into and grew up in a community that expected them to stay in school, graduate, find a job and make something of themselves.

 

It's not that way today. There is no black "community". The black school dropout rate is astronomical, black unemployment, black on black crime rates are astronomical, and three out of every four black babies are born out of wedlock. And the list goes on and on. American blacks have become the victims in the War on Poverty.

 

So much for the social paradise that integration was supposed to bring to pass.

There are still black communities - Third ward, Sunnyside, South Side Chicago.

Please can you speak to the quality of education that black kids received before desegregation?

And I posit that the frightening but true statistics of black population have little to do with desegregation.

East Downtown or East End sound better!

Great job! I second Ltawacs, you have a good eye. Cloud reflection on Heritage Plaza is interesting.

What camera did you shoot with? If I may ask.

Great news! Bite this one United. It may help clear your colon because right now you're full of it.

I just can't believe anyone will support the idea of putting an elevated freeway on MacGregor. For what? I live in Brazoria County and drive to either TMC or Hermann Park 6 or 7 days a week - traffic into TMC from Holcombe or MacGregor just doesn't exist. A ramp into south TMC may be good for workers to save a minute when driving to and from work but I don't see people paying 1 or 2 dollars to ride a tollway and pay 12 more dollars to park when they can park for less or free and ride the train in, for 1.25 or free.

Heck they can 'improve' traffic flow into TMC by fixing the surface and synchronizing the lights on Fannin, Knight, Cambridge, Almeda, and Holcombe but they choose an elevated tollway right between a golf course and walking trail on one side, and a biking trail and scenic bayou on the other, in a park that stands tall among the best urban parks in the US.

Houston! We have a problem.

What happened to direct connectors from Almeda to 610 in the original plan they put out three years ago? That seems more plausible and sensible. They can put two lanes in Almeda median, depress them under Holy Hall and OST, to end at Holcombe, or MacGregor for those going to the museums and midtown.

I regularly go to the Med Center at virtually every hour of the day and night and I agree with other posters that getting in isn't a problem. Under normal conditions, there can't be more than two minutes difference in traffic times during peak and off-peak hours to get to 288 from TMC on Holcombe or MacGregor. The only times when I routinely see insane traffic getting into TMC is during spring break or when Miller Outdoor Theater is staging popular shows.

Btw I thing a park-and-ride from Pearland to TMC and downtown will solve much of the congestion on 288 even before the toll road.

Just getting to this thread...

I recognize that IAH is a United hub, but they're not the only airline that has international flights to and from the airport. So, isn't there already competition for United in international Houston-based travel?

Admittedly, I don't really know how all of these arrangements work, so could someone explain to me why this is such a big deal?

It's only big deal to United. Southwest is gonna kick their you-know-what with cheap prices. On their flights originating from Houston, United make most profit per mile on Caribbean, Central and South American destinations. They will lose a big chunk of that slice. Another factor that I think is important but hardly mentioned is that Hobby is closer to majority of Hispanic population in Houston, so even if United were to match SW in price (which I seriously doubt), many people will still prefer to fly out of a closer, smaller Hobby Airport compared to IAH. This seems to me to be the reason why United want SW to bring her proposed international business to IAH. United's 'Keep IAH strong' mantra is just a load of crap.

This is part of an email that I received today: "To provide better service to its customers, METRO will implement route and schedule modifications in August. The modifications also will include the elimination of the Airport Direct shuttle."

Personally, I'm happy to see the service axed. Houston airports are so convinient to get to by car, and with just two people, I bet parking your car at the airport for a day or two is still cheaper than Airport Direct.

I first saw it Tuesday and rode in it Wednesday. There is a Houston Chronicle picture of it Wednesday I think. Even with this big, red box sliding across the street, two cars still won't sotp and think at the Fannin/Braeswood intersection. The train had to go really slow to avoid the cars that choose not to stop behing the level crossing signal. O how I wish those two get cited.

Anyone know of the good nursing programs to become an RN in or around Houston?

Is that a test question?

Houston Community College www.hccs.edu

UT School of Nursing son.uth.tmc.edu/

Prairie View A&M U College of Nursing www.pvamu.edu

Texas Woman's U College of Nursing www.twu.edu/nursing/

Lone Star College has nursing schools in North Harris (near Bush Intercontinental Airport), Cy-Fair (Barker Cypress & 290), Kingwood, Tomball and somewhere else

San Jacinto College has three nursing schools www.sanjac.edu

Houston Baptist U (59 & Fondren)

There's more if you google 'em.

I did read it, and then I went to the Snopes source - Many of Snopes own sources were questionable...at the same time, that particular one does appear to have more credibility than the others.

Many of the alleged quotes are circular sources...if you look at the source of one article, it is another article, each just quoting another source - none of which had any evidence, except the prior source.

With that said - Reds post was very good. I can honestly say that the network news organizations are liberal. They dont even try to hide it anymore. When NBC hosted Obamas health care "debate" it wrote off any chance it had at objectivity. The questions were loaded, and even the "tough questions" were softballs. I watched the whole thing, and it I could pick huge gaping holes through almost all of it. There simply is not a place to go to get reliable news that does not have an agenda. The network news organizations LOVE Obama - they work with him to portray a message and Obama is getting to control that message.

That is not journalism - they are not questioning things that need to be questioned if they fit the agenda.

There is a large portion of America as much as 50% or greater, who share many of my concerns. ...as much as I may sound like a Right wing extremist, I am actually quite center. If the government would stay away from my money, and quit making up rules we dont need I would gladly sit down and shut up. But the government is not staying out if...it is getting more intrusive every year. Each year they magically find something that requires more Taxes, more regulation, and more restrictions.

I want lower taxes - I want everyone to pay taxes - I want to eliminate welfare - I want accountability - I want the government to stay out of the way of business.

Government is not the solution if they would stop controlling everything, much of it would get better. Its amazing that we got as far as we did in the past 100 years without all the new laws they keep making up every year, and all the new programs.

Read 1Timothy 3:8

I havent spent much time on politifact, just the last 2 minutes - but from looking at it, first 2 pages of "facts" they seem to only be picking apart republican lies, and democrat exaggerations....I can tell you 100 Pelosi lies...almost every word that hack speaks is untrue - and they had only a handful of half truths on there. Im not saying its good or bad, I have not spent enough time on it, but from what I see on the first 2 pages I looked at, its definitely cherry picking.

As to fox news being anti-American - no way - The liberals, want to take away all of the things that made this country great in an effort to be "fair" -its sickening. Janeane Garolfo is a scion of evil, not only is she evil, but she is a complete Idiot. - I am 100% behind Fox on that one. Glen Beck is out there - a few people take him very seriously, but he is way out there - the educated who watch know what is true and what is crazy talk. Obama is a socialist - so they have not missed the mark there. Like it or not, Obamas policies of the government controlling everything, and taxing the wealthy disproportionately are socialist policies. The poor masses are simply voting themselves the fruit of everyone elses labor. Its sickening.

True conservatives know what is what...If you let Obama do everything he wanted, we would have government ownership of everything, everybody shares equally in everything, and he would be a life time president. News Flash, thats not what we want.

Conservatism took a slide during the Bush years, no doubt because Bush abandoned conservatism long ago for a heavy military hand, and liberal social hand - but Obama is SO bad for this country, that you are about to witness the biggest slaughter in American politics next election. America has woken up - the liberal left is louder and dominates 90% of the media for sure, but Americans in general have had enough of the steal from your neighbor, blame Bush rhetoric, that is the Democrats now.

People have had enough of the constant degredation of society in the name of being progressive too. Its time to get back to the basics, and do the things that made America great - stop the social programs, and actually make people work for their money. Enough is enough, the people are going to take their country back, and the Democrats are going to hate it. Obama didnt win the election because he was a better choice, he won because the conservatives didnt have a choice. McCain was the worst republican candidate of all time. They ran a liberal candidate to try to suck in some independent swing voters, but they lost their base in doing so. McCain could not fire up a lighter, let alone a voting public.

You think the conservatives are losing ground, I think just the opposite - the democrats are about to be so marginalized its going to be great, and I hope the republicans do to them, what the democrats are doing now. Shut them out of everything and cram it all down your throats. I cant wait to see the media stink when we finally do exactly what your doing now.

You want proof of Democrats failures - look at almost all of the blue states - more violence, more debt, more unemployment - then look at the red states - drastically less. Everything the democrats touch destroys wealth in this country. I honestly think its on purpose - destroy wealth so they rely upon you for everything. It guarantees your continued election.

I hold myself so much on political debates because I can't bring myself to voting along party lines, and I don't know what to think about people who do. But the number of hypocrisy in this post above is astounding.

1. Someone spent the last two minutes on a website and formed an opinion. Then states that the time is not long enough and reached a definite conclusion. All in two sentences.

2. You know what? Forget my take on McCain being the worst R candidate of all time and less crime in red states. I can't bring myself to writing it.