jamesf

The city of Meadows Place, a small city bordering Houston, Stafford, and Sugar Land, is planning on installing a series of four roundabouts on S. Kirkwood between W. Bellfort and W. Airport. They will replace the four stop signs within 300 yards of each other within the neighborhood. They are being billed as a traffic calming measure as S. Kirkwood runs through a residential neighborhood. The traffic along S. Kirkwood in that area is static and not expected to grow any. They will be reducing the road from four lanes to two lanes in the area so they are able to fit within the right-of-way. You can see more about it here.

HUH?

Your EZ Tag has ZERO to do with Transtar. Speeds reported on TransStar are sensed by either inductive loops in the freeway pavement or radar mounted on sign bridges across the freeway. Your EZ Tag cannot be used to tell how fast you are going. The device just doesn't work that way.

Not true. The EZ Tags are the primary source of information for the Transtar website. That is how the travel time is calculated. This is from the Houston Transtar website:

The system uses vehicles equipped with transponder tags as vehicle probes. The main source of vehicle probes are commuters using the "EZ-Tag" automatic toll collection system installed by the Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA). Transponder tag readers are placed at 1 to 5 mile intervals along freeways and HOV lanes. Each reader senses probe vehicles as they pass a reader station and transmits the time and location of the probes to a central computer over a telephone line. As the probe vehicles pass through successive AVI readers, software calculates average travel times and speeds for a roadway segment. The averages are made available to software which provides the data for the Houston TranStar web site.

http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/aviinfo/avi-hou.html

So where is this home?

I see the Houston Center Gardens on the map, but I was wondering what it is like. It is a nice park? What is it like at night? Do a lot of homeless people hang around there at night?