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I'm not quite certain how you arrived at the number of six traffic light for EACH exit. Regardless, you have to encounter a traffic light to get from one side of 10 to the other now anyhow. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I really don't see how adding a Walmart will affect your life any more than any other development... most especially with traffic. Just take one of the numerous alternative routes available to you if traffic gets out of control.

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The new street connecting Koehler and 2nd will have lights at yale and heights and the new feeder road will add some lights to Yale and I-10 which would bring the total lights up to four I guess instead of six.

I bicycle to work and this is the bike trail, I am not aware of a safe alternative route to cross I-10. This stretch of Heights is already the most dangerous part of my commute and I feel that putting a wal mart on top of it without adequately considering the bike trail would adversely affect me.

On the other hand if they did not build the connector road and made Heights Blvd south of I-10 look like Heigths Blvd north of I-10 I would be all for it. I simply do not believe the bike trail will be adequately considered.

Well good. Considering traffic is so much better in the loop and alternative routes are readily available everywhere, then it appears to me the traffic congestion argument can be finally put to bed.

Traffic is better because there are not Wal Marts with half a dozen red lights at every interstate exit. Developments like this will bring the suburban traffic congestion to an area that currently doesn't have it.

Traffic's a bjtch inside the loop. Get over it or join me in the 'burbs. Those are your two options.

From my experience, traffic inside the loop is dramatically better than in the suburbs. I'd take a flood or train wreck in Montrose/Heights over the average day in woodlands/katy/pearland.

I feel that by not having a walmart and half a dozen redlights at every interstate exit that traffic is better inside the loop.

My question is, however, why would a Walmart on Yale kill a bike lane on Heights?

I believe it was the plot on chonicle that showed a road connecting 2nd and Koehler crossing yale and heights with a new set of red lights that made me believe this would bring walmart traffic through Heights Boulevard.

Seriously, as far as danger on my bike commute, that new Whole Foods on Dallas and Waugh is going to be a bigger issue than traffic exiting from the rear of the Wal-Mart.

Completely agree, I am not brave enough to take Heights\Waugh down to Dallas. I quit at Washington and take the pedestrian bridge at Jackson Hill. Even though it is a big inconvenience I've almost died on the Waugh bridge too many times to take it anymore..

There is a big difference between what is good business for Wal-Mart and what is good business for the citizens of Houston. Just because Wal-Mart wants something doesn't mean everyone in the City has to roll over and give them every variance and permit they want. If the community doesn't need three Wal-Marts within 8 miles, then the community shouldn't bend over backwards to cut new roads, add traffic lights, clogging important intersections for residents, and so on for a store the community doesn't need.

I couldn't agree with you more. This development will create a huge traffic burden to anyone who lives around here, all so the people can buy toilet paper 10 cents cheaper, and this could never have been possible unless we first paid the tab for the grand walmart avenue exits off of I-10.

I know there is no sympathy for the weirdos who bicycle to work, but this redevelopment will certainly kill the already anemic stretch of the bike lane (pt parking lot) on Heights between I-10 and Washington. I would welcome walmart or anyone else if the end result was a safe bike lane that could get you from the heights to the otherside of buffalo bayou. Instead this will probably kill this stretch of bikeable Houston.

I am still suspect of the simultaneous I-10 feeders and wal mart location. How will having wal-mart on I-10 with a half dozen new red lights make traffic better or reduce flooding? Weren't those the goals of the project? Would the store be possible without the additional I-10 access? To me this is as much a subsidy as anything else.

Happened to see this article on Khou.com with the new I-10 access it seems a Heights Wal-Mart would fit in nicely.

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/Suspects-charged-in-connection-with-brazen-midday-Walmart-holdup-97094579.html

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That would help explain the urgency in which the unneccessary I-10 exits are being built. Wal-Mart almost always has some government assistance when they build a store.