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    Wouldn't requiring the use of public transport negatively affect those living in the suburbs? How about trains AND wider highways?
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    So is the ideal a place where everyone lives in 100sqft rooms in giant towers connected to other giant towers that contain work/shopping/entertainment? Sort of a hive?
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    Besides that, Judge Hidalgo has more important things to do now than worry about what happens in Harris county... Lina Hidalgo named to Joe Biden's 2024 reelection advisory board https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/joe-biden-lina-hidalgo-18091209.php
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    The more things change, the more they stay the same...
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    There we have it then, it won't be torn down and we won't do anything with it. Here's the real future of the Astrodome...
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    That's what I heard also, but I haven't looked at it over there. I'll try to swing by some of those segments and see how it's progressing.
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    No photos, but I pass it often and the concrete is down between at least Eldridge and West Houston Center Blvd. They're still working on the connections at each road. Good sign of progress when they've got the "Trail Closed" signs up. Are you referring to the road and bike trail work on Westpark west of Wilcrest?
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    Nice, but this is so much better...
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    Plus, they've been hard at work building out the Bray's Bayou trail past Hwy 6. With that and this you could bike from Fulshear to JSC. Now that's a bike ride.
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    Since it's part of NRG Park I would imagine all scheduling would be coordinated to avoid these issues (like it is today). But, Judge Hidalgo has pretty much said the dome isn't a priority so I wouldn't expect anything to happen other than it sit there and rot.
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    For most of human existence we've roamed the land living in far flung groups of minimal density. Suburbia is closer to our native habitat. We will survive.
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    They should build it just like the picture, with a washateria/liquor store/cbd/vape/greyhound station on the ground floor.
  13. august948
    I was in the scouts for a long time, starting in elementary school until I discovered cars and girls in high school. Having spent 40 years chasing both, I now think I should have just stuck with camping and bisquick. 😜
  14. august948
    Now that we have a plan...can someone print up some annoying yellow signs with our demands that we can put up and down Bissonnet for the next 10 years?
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    I'm still hoping for a ground floor washateria and liquor store here...😜
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    Given how our summers are, they should take the biome a step further like Dubai did...
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    What if car-centric-suburb-centric was the most practical grand vision?
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    General Motors loves cities and wants you to get around yours quickly and in air-conditioned style...
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    And that case happened because DC attempted to really overreach in order to ban handguns. Very similar in philosophy to how Texas stretched in the recent past in attempts to ban abortions.
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    I'm going to guess you've never purchased a firearm. The background check requirement is federal, not state. And, regardless of the background check, it's still illegal for convicted criminals and someone who's been certified as mentally ill to posses one.
  21. august948
    Federal law already prohibits convicted criminals and those found to be mentally ill from possessing a firearm. Are you aware of that, or has that point been glossed over by left-leaning media accounts and political gaslighting?
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    I shouldn't have to ask whether or not it's a good idea to abridge the second amendment, but clearly some fall for the media and political hype around it. And for the fairy tale of nazi's and white supremacists hiding under every bed. American democracy is a loud and messy thing. Lot's of sh_t gets said but in the end the system endures.
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    It's not the who that matters. History is replete with examples of those in power doing whatever they can to stay in power. It's human nature for this to occur, so it's eminently logical to put safeguards in place to prevent it. What's exceptional about America is not our people, it's the checks and balances of our system that keep the train on the rails. Start removing those checks and balances in the name of fixing this problem or that problem and you'll end up paving the way for an actual tyrant.
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    I wonder if they'll try to make another go at running Krystal's here.
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    Uh...no. The Bill of Rights was ratified by three-fourths of the states on 15 December 1791. The US Army was founded on 14 June 1775, a bit over 16 years prior. While I agree with you that politicians try to gaslight the public all the time, as does the media, it applies to both sides of the aisle. Careful you don't fall into that trap as well. It's in the best interests of the wealthy and powerful that the average citizen be disarmed (and silenced). It should really come as no surprise that our ruling elites try to manipulate us into giving up any chance of opposing their rule. The Bill of Rights was specifically enacted to prevent the abuses our forefathers suffered at the hands of European tyrants. To tie it back to the thread topic, I've heard much chatter since 2016 about how Trump is a nazi tyrant and wants to sweep away our democracy in favor of a dictatorship. If that is truly so, then why would you want to disarm the citizenry?
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