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probably all linked. I read that thread on Reddit, sounds like the kids are exceedingly stupid, so they should be pretty easy to find. just another place to add to the list of areas not safe to ride.

settle down Veruca 😉

it's encouraging, there's a lot of conversations happening around very pointed transportation topics. parking requirements, pedestrian safety, intersection safety, vehicle size disparity, creating roads that cater to more than just drivers. lots of specific topics in the general transportation sphere are starting to be taken to more mainstream discussion areas. it's odd, the safety of the driver (and their occupants) has been a topic for generations now (since the mid 60s), but that's as far as any transportation topics have ever gotten in the USA. "Hey guys, we made driving the car safer for the driver and the occupants of that vehicle safer, job done!". when you look at all of these topics as a group of transportation topics, you can certainly see that in the next few years (or maybe I'm being too generous and it'll take decades), that we are priming ourselves to make some adjustments to the current normal transportation methods.

my guess, if it were to become something more than just continue on being what it is, which is a warehouse, it could be a great location for art studios.

the office of the mayor has his biography online. https://www.houstontx.gov/mayor/bio.html it's not particularly impressive to me. I recall one of the things he promised when he ran for office was to eradicate potholes. I haven't seen a lot of action there. I have seen the complete streets stuff make some strong moves through making the bicycle network a lot more robust, but I wonder, are these things that would have happened regardless of who was in that office, or did he lead a charge that accelerated change in this? homelessness seems to be worse, crime too, but those are endemic across the nation, I think. @dbigtex56 mentioned some pretty condemning things in another thread, specifically as they relate to public housing.

I'm a huge proponent of de-gendering all words. I have an ottoperson in my living room. I don't go to Hermann park, I go to Personpersonn park, etc. /s anyway, last week I was walking by what will be the Hub, it looks like they have covered the basement area.

it'll be the slowest moving train wreck in the cities history.

I've worked for the same company for coming up on 21 years. in that time the office has had 4 locations, and is completely closed as of now, ownership is going to be getting a new office (primarily to have a conference room, and customer training area). so I'll be able to say, in the next year or two, 5 locations, 22 years. I used to live in the 'burbs, and commuting when the office wasn't near the house was a 1 hour affair from one 'burb to another. luckily, for most of that I could just toss cruise control and go, but about 30% of the drive was in stop/go traffic not on freeways. anyway, I now live in the east end, and can happily say that for the 15 years that I've been in the area, my commute at office #2 was 20ish minutes, and #3 and 4 was less than 15 minutes (including the walk from the car to the office desk). I don't think I'll be so lucky next office, rumor is that will be near i-10 Campbell area, so I'll be back to a 20-30 minute commute. meanwhile, some folks have only ever rented, and they move with the office, others lived within minutes of the first office and have grumbled every time the office moves farther away from the primary location. a few quit. I'm out here just shrugging at the whole thing. I'm sure there's some actuarial table to assess that risk. it's whatever, we all assume various risks in our lives and there are trade-offs for those risks. the big problem is though, the actual cost of living in the suburbs gets hidden in new developments paying for older ones (aka, roads and other maintenance of the older stuff that exists in those towns is paid for by taxes from new owners, there's little maintenance for the new stuff, so they don't have to worry about that for 10ish years, and then they just need to get some freeways expanded and woo some developers to build more homes), at some point that party is going to end and someone is going to be left holding the bag. and if freeway construction that helps promote that behavior is any indication, everyone is going to be paying those checks when they come due.

I think it's safe to say they are starting on this project. they have some earth tools on site now, and have moved some dirt around on the mound that is just north of University Avenue.

new route for the MS150? 😁

https://www.thedestinationtrail.com/engage 31 miles from 6th ward out to JSC and beyond.

I'll ride this hyperbole train with you. then we're probably doomed as a species. I think the youtube channel Not Just Bikes summed up how unsustainable the American suburb is from a cost perspective.

I hope you weren't flying the plane! eye's on the runway! when, or if?

perhaps it's the beginning of a ramp for people who wish to try their hand at Evil Kineviling their way over the bayou?

yep, I saw KMFDM there twice, Rabbit in the Moon, and numerous other shows. it was a great venue.

I know they are using part of the spur ROW as a staging ground for the new lighting that is going up along the gulf freeway between the spur and 610, but that is farther up at University Blvd.

just saying once things develop. I've heard nothing about them closing.

Kubosh wants to put the kibosh on bike lanes?

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-trucks-do-our-roads I'm sure there's some break even point between buses and cars and how much damage one does to roadways vs the other, so it's not just a simple statement that can be quickly written off. the issue as I see it is we pay taxes, some of that goes to Metro, some of that goes to roadworks, so is the point that we should give more money to Metro so they can pay a higher percentage share of the road rebuild price? let's just see that money go straight to the roadworks. fewer steps is fewer chances for people to line their pockets with our tax dollars.

the place is rife for something to happen. I went to the Skinny Puppy show a few weeks ago, which was only moved here from HOB because I think they needed a bigger venue. but yeah, just a sad state. just this music venue and Sundance (whatever they call it now) movie theater. I struggled to find somewhere to pregame before the show, so I was stuck with movie theater booze (which pours just as well as any bar, I guess, just not the atmosphere I was going for). anyway, I'd guess the movie theater is struggling to find reasons to stay considering how not busy they were on a Friday night, and no restaurants to speak of. I will eventually miss that movie theater though, super easy to get tickets for anything, and in prime seats even on opening night.

looks like the proposed tower in Austin that would have been taller than this one has been reduced in height, so Houston will retain the tallest tower in Texas.

$50,000??? what is it made out of titanium and unicorn tears?

^^calls a pretty reasonable statement about the needs of traffic calming ridiculous, then proceeds to show what ridiculous statements really look like. there are plenty of examples (even in this city) of ways that traffic calming may be implemented without reverting to horse and buggy. oh, and a horse and buggy is probably only hitting, maybe, 20 mph. I don't have any experience in the field, but Google provided answers pretty quickly. you don't have to go more than a few blocks west of Ashby street to get to the intersection of Hazard street. why that is significant is because at Hazard, Bissonnet is the same width as it is at Ashby, yet they have included a left turn lane. so it would be easy to assume that this might be included here at Ashby street.

it may be worth while to wait for the project to complete before getting trees planted though. just in case the contractors don't damage newly planted trees.

that's the most important part, it was an apartment complex with (IIRC) 175ish units? the sole purpose for opposition to this was to keep a tall building out of the area, this is brilliantly characterized by calling it the tower of terror, and the scary monster tower in their characterizations of the tower on their yellow signs. however, with no ordinance against tall buildings, given appropriate setbacks, parking, etc, the only thing they had in their pocket for opposition was traffic. anyway, I can't wait until this is a completed building.