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Maybe I'm just blind, but I ride by there about 3x a week on my bike, and I haven't seen it. what corner is it on?

Perhaps I missed this in between all the Culberson bashing (not a bad thing, but I stopped reading halfway through page 2)... Where will the commuter train go once it reaches 610? The best assumption I can make is that it will go south on 610 and stop at the Metro thingy at 610/I-10, riders would get off and hop on a bus for the rest of the trek downtown, or hop on the galleria (err, uptown) light rail. Is this far off the mark?

Neat. At least from my perspective (I lived off of Bellaire and Kirkwood for a good majority of my life), a lot of people use Metro along Bellaire, specifically from Dairy Ashford to Beltway 8. I never really ventured much inside the belt on Bellaire, but I can only assume ridership is high there as well. It would be cool to see light rail from the med area out to Alief area.

sorry to have offended you. Personally, when I am hiring someone, the college they went to is the last thing I look at. Whether it says UHD, HMU, UH, Harvard, I don't care. At the end of the day, I am interested in a persons ability to learn. And to top it all off, I actually have hired people who have gone to devry, UHD and UH. I guess I'm just not that sensitive to the name of a place that people go to for their higher education, a person is only going to get out of it what they put in to it anyway, that is true no matter what the name of the place is.

Is it too late to say that I want the name of this school to be named "Sentral Houston Institute of Technology"..... Someone needs to tell the people who feel that they are going to lose the prestige involved with UH by having the school change its name, at least it doesn't say 'devry'

If I'm thinking of the right place, one of the unique aspects of this space, to me, is the integration of the floors of whatever buildings used to sit there in the walkway. I don't particularly care how this space is updated, but I hope that they can retain this unique feature of this greenspace!

I traveled up and down 290 a few times in traffic back then, if traffic was just 'bad' I can only imagine what it is now. yikes. I'm glad st arnolds is moving near downtown, I won't have any reason to go anywhere near that god-forsaken highway after that.

If they put a parking meter in front of my house, I'd go cool hand luke on it.

Obviously, you are not down with OPP...

So does the Galleria Area, and if you overlay the two, they are damn near identical. If Houston Pavilions came prior to Downtown, and the name of the area was considered by one and all to be Houston Pavilions Area, then yeah, Houston Pavilions Area it is. Eventually, the warehouse district won't have anymore warehouses in it, but will that mean it will be thought of as EaDo by people who have been in Houston forever? I'll laugh secretly whenever anyone uses that name, and I suppose people will look at me like a crazy person when I say warehouse district. You can find hundreds of examples to use. At the end of the day though, money will win out, it will be called Uptown, and EaDo, and whatever other nifty names some marketing person comes up with that has nothing to do with what has to do with anything. And I guess that the other prepositional options that come with up and down (left and right) they don't have the same ring. Lefttown, or Righttown, neither of them really work. But then niether does Uptown. Gone are the days when a contest is held to name something like the Gulf Freeway, but then, I guess if they held a contest to name the Galleria area, people probably would have submitted "Galleria Area".

That really is a shame. On a side note, there ought to be a law against littering...

I utilize the part north of Leeland for getting into town. I wish there were better maps of this trail, and of the rail line that will go down scott. It looks like the rail will go alongside this trail for a short period, and I would really like to see how it will be affected, but I guess I will just have to use it, watch the unfolding of the build and then wait for the exciting conclusion!

I had some friends that worked at Windchimes in the late 90s, and got to see a few movies for free from the projection booth, which didn't have 20 years worth of spilled soft drinks making the floor ultra sticky. And in the mid/late 80s to the early 90s I would go there with my scout group once a month to see movies. BeetleJuice is one classic I remember seeing there, as well as The Last Dragon. Good memories, not sure if that place is historic, other than it is an empty husk of a small movie theater.

If you want people to take you seriously, you need to have proof to corroborate your position. If you can produce facts to back up your assertions, people may actually agree with what you are saying. It is easy. I disagree with The Niche in regards to light rail vs other forms of mass transit, but unless I can come up with proof of what I think, I can't expect him to see things my way. Since all I have is my casual observations, I can't do much except agree to disagree. So, the onus is on you. Provide data to back up your claims, or continue to have people disagree with your position. Hell, you can even give your ideas as to why you hold your position and they may provide facts to show why you are mistaken.

Same issues in FF here. Just opened in IE and it works great. Also, you can see the wards if you turn on 'super neighborhood'

I seem to recall that there were unicorns lining the sidewalks, leprechauns directing traffic, and nice looking scantily clad women handing out hundred dollar bills at each intersection.

From the look of it, I don't think the roads exist any longer, being replaced by greenspace. I guess they think that heat/humidity/rain won't be an issue in the future, or maybe we'll have a tunnel system that ties everything together, or a subway?

Well, there are 3 things that bother me about a subway (and these are my own personal issues, not saying they are issues for everyone).. Safety, safety is an issue, I understand that there would likely be security cameras everywhere, but people get robbed in front of those all the time, there is a lot less desire to do something out in the open at a rail station, than there would be in a small box of a subway station. Out of sight, out of mind, seeing a train roll by a location that you drive often is something that hits me continuously, but seeing a set of stairs going down doesn't inspire me to park my car and walk to the station. Accessibility, being one of the fattest cities in the country (if not the world) I don't see many fat people (sorry, overweight) walking down stairs to get to a subway, then walking back up. escalators? sure, but then there are people in wheelchairs, they need elevators. While the question could be asked, would they use it? Who knows, but the ADA would be all up in METRO if they didn't have the access. I don't know, but I do feel that people will eventually park more and ride on the lines, which will reduce cars in those areas. Obviously someone did the feasibility studies, and found that this was the best way, I agree with it, so I'm not going to do a lot of thinking about it

You're right. I deleted half my comments before I posted, I hate making long winded replies (oops) Anyway, yeah, Houston and Amsterdam (the old centrum area) grew up in different periods with different ideas on transportation, and how far relative distances are. Houston should continue growing, while the centrum of Amsterdam (where the trams are used heavily) cannot grow any larger, however, that also means that the car traffic that they have (which is a lot, and continues to grow) will be constrained to what is already there, and it has to be shared by the tram system and bikes. The population of both cities will continue to grow and become more dense. I don't know, I'm certainly not anything more than a citizen on a forum, I didn't do any studies, I only have empirical evidence from at least 10 trips to Holland that centered around Amsterdam over the course of my 30 year life that has a system not unlike our own, and I have watched that city grow to enjoy car transportation more and more, and seen the congestion that comes with it. I think a solid tram system (light rail) is the right solution, I think a subway is too costly in both safety and money, and an elevated, while intriguing would be costly as well. And personally, as far as the noise goes, I don't live next to the line, but when I am biking on main, or around the area, the horn is a very soft tone that notifies me of its presense but isn't over powering. Then again, I live in broadmoor and have 2 RR lines that are heavily used very close to my house. Niether the RR, or the LR are any less anoying than a bus idling at a stoplight, or accelerating from a stop, or even at a cruise speed.

I'm a critic. Amsterdam is a great example of the system we are creating, there are no grade separations for different rail (tram) lines to different locations, they do have to wait for another train. There are no elevated or underground sections, it is all street level. It is all shared with the road traffic (and bicycle traffic, who incidentally have their own signals at intersections, meaning cars have to wait for the tram, and bikes). Until such a time as ridership increases and car traffic through those areas decrease as a result of that ridership increase, car traffic is going to go up.

heh, mine was green http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=20086 I voted once from home and once from the office. should I vote from other computers in the office too? hmmm

I don't usually read junk mailers, but this one caught my eye. a green flier labeled "Do you want a downtown grocery store" Not sure whether it will do any good or not, but worth the 5 minutes to fill out. There is a clickable link on the left for the survey, I haven't looked at the rest of the site, but there may be some other useful stuff. http://www.houstondowntown.com/home/default.asp Sorry if this has been linked before.

heh, that was what I was trying to say. my commute takes me south on 45 in the mornings, and north in the evenings (I decided a trip to HEB for some milk, and then to travel down telephone rather than getting back on 45 was a good choice), and almost every time I pass those things, I shake my head in wonder that someone thought a rebuild was a good idea.

I agree, I hope that they pull down the rest before they fall down on others.

My Mom is funny when it comes to color and driving habits. She makes some very specific correlations between driving styles and specific races. I tend to agree with Clarkson (from the BBC show Top Gear) that the driving style of a person can be found by looking at what they drive (and to an extent how they dress), rather than the color of the driver.