texas911
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It won't work here because the destination cities don't have good public transportation. In Europe and Asia (really just Japan) the cities the high speed trains connect all have great public transportation systems, so once you get there, you don't need a car. If I travel to Dallas on a high speed train, I'd still need a car to get around. Might as well just drive there.
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Totally off topic here, but why is there a junk yard on Will Clayton parkway? And all along that corridor that welcomes people into Houston, is being jucked up with ugly businesses. I remember when I first moved here, the airport was like the Woodland, all in the woods, now it becoming like a feeder road system. Can't they zone it to look better? A freaking junk yard! Of all the places to put one in. Freaking ineptitude really pisses me off. End of Rant.
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Yes its a done deal according to the chronicle. It will be in the reliant parking lot, but it would be ultra cool if the could race through the Astrodome! How about that, the first indoor/outdoor CART race! That would be so freaking awesome. And just to make it even more interesting, race through Reliant Stadium and the Convention center! Those three places are plenty big and wide enough for safe racing. Heck it they could race on the 90 degree truns and narrow downtown streets, they can race anywhere!
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Helicopters to the Gulf, then bam, an instant reef!
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What I don't understand is where in Houston is there no next exit? Why stop in the middle of the freeway to try and cut in, there is alway always another exit. Basically the mentality is I'm more important than you! Really irritates me. On 59 South exit to 610, TXDOT put some reflector poles in the triangular shaped median which these "selfish asses" seem to think is a special merge lane for them, it lasted all of one week before all of them were run over! If Metro police would just station a police car there it would take care of it.
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I love the HOV system in Houston, because Houston drivers are ____, if it weren't for the barriers you'd have people misusing them for their own benefit. Like my pet peeve is when your at an exit that's backed up, instead of getting at the end of the line, people zoom all the way to the front of the line and cut in, causing even more of a back up in line. Idiots! Anyway back to the HOV, yes there are only a few exits but that's why they work great. You wouldn't want lots of exits because that defeats the purpose. Another suck thing is that if you get behind someone who refused to go fast on the HOV, usually there is a train of cars behind these idiots but they must not look in their mirrors because they don't speed up. These are the same fools that slow down with the traffic on the freeway while on the HOV!
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Just for clarification, the MSR is not a NASCAR venue, it is a road course and I don't think there will be big time racing there. But there will be public events there. This is needed in a city this big. Going to College Station for a track event isn't that great, but to have one in the city will do very good business. The Grand Prix of Houston was a CART race, but now that CART is floundering, I'm not sure it will be back, regradless, it won't be held at MSR but downtown.
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Then I say that farmers should be made to pass an emmissions test for their cattle, like I do for my car!
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University of Houston Tier One Status
texas911 replied to pineda's topic in General Houston Discussions
If Texas wants to compete with California, then we need more Tier One Universities. And the UH is the perfect one to begin with. It would be an asset not only for the state, but for the city. Tier one would attract a lot of students from around the state and US as well as international and some of those bright people will stay in Houston. Its a win/win for the city and the companies here. Anyway even without Tier One funding, the UH is doing very well for itself. Third largest University in Texas in the biggest city in Texas. It has so much to offer to students and the city. -
Well Houston has an Ikea! But as usual now Dallas is getting one.
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Its alive and, well, I guess. Still, I wouldn't believe it until they open... Motor Sport Ranch Houston
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Texas Speed Limits To Be Raised To 80
texas911 replied to DJ2025's topic in Traffic and Transportation
Here is another report on declining deaths. What's really eye opening is that deaths are still declining even though more people are driving. So those high speed limits aren't causing more deaths. Don't buy into the insurance company myths. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3291735 -
Can anyone recommend a good tree trimmer in Houston?
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Wow, finally got on the Westpark Tollway from Alief into West Loop, and the connecting flyover 59 is one heck of a view to see all of Houston. We really are a garden city. That flyover is pretty dang high and kinda scary when you realize its so thin a strip of concrete. Still breath taking nonetheless.
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Anyone know the low down on "Darth Vader's" house on the corner of Buffalo Speedway and University? That's what my kids call the all black house that's been there for quite a while. Very prominent.
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You guys are crazy if you think billboards are what makes Houston unsightly. Billboards are the least of our worries. Ugly architecture, quick buck developers. Case in point, the new China town on Bellaire would be a great place except there isn't a unifying plan and every single new development looks like a minature Walmart. Giant parking lot off Bellaire with the actual retail building way way back. For sure I thought that they would build differently.
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I love St Martins, its what the Co-Cathedral should aspire to be.
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See my post over on the West U board!
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I hesitate to do this fearing my little church will become to crowded to attend, but HR has got to be the best little parish in Houston, if you're a traditionalist. It reminds me of the Catholic church when I was growing up, and for that, I am glad. No guitar playing, no holding hands, no lay people giving out the Eucharist, only alter BOYS, kneeling at the alter for communion. I love it! And the architecture is awesome, very subdued because it was built during the depression.
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Yikes! So Lakewood opened this Saturday and what a total traffic mess it has become. Its like having a Rockets Playoff game every weekend. 59 between Kirby and Wesleyan was totally blocked. I kinda forgot how traffic was with the Summit. Now its back. I bet all the restaurants are going to love it though.
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Hmmm, interesting. How about the ones inside Super Target? I noticed that the guys working there aren't so "grunge/earthy" looking as in the stand alone ones.
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So the Starbucks inside other stores aren't the same as the stand alone ones? Barnes and Noble on Holcombe is always packed with people, is that a real one?
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I don't mind the idea of the granparkway, but the way it was built and funded is what irks me. Bob Lanier was head of the highway commision when the grandparkway was approved, by him, to go through tracts of land that he owned. What a crock. I hated mayor Bob, he was a money grabbing scumbag.
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Yes on Edloe Street between Rice and University. Don't blink when you pass by, you'll miss it, but on Saturdays in the fall, its Old Time Americana, very apple pie, with the West U little leaguers playing ball and all the families just walking around enjoying the games.
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You guys have never been to West U downtown (CBD)? You're missing out. Actually its just a strip of 4-5 businesses next to the elementary school. There is a restaurant, car shop, a Compass bank and the area's last "honor system" grocery store. You go in and you just say, "put it on my tab" and out you go! I was just joking about it being a downtown. I also joke to my wife when referring to West U/Southside as a Metroplex!
