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  1. Texasota
    Adding lanes for car traffic is why the green line bridge is such a monstrosity. If they do an elevated crossing and station, they need to keep it as narrow and minimal as possible.
  2. Texasota
    I think it still will. The uptown line makes very little sense in isolation; this is a whole different story. This connects the east end to UH/TSU to Midtown/Museum District to Montrose to Kirby to Greenway Plaza to Uptown to Little India. That's *a ton* of destinations and a tens of thousands of homes and apartments.
  3. Texasota
    Ha! My wife and I went to Azurmendi on our honeymoon. It was good, but I don't really think it was worth the price. Yeah... I think that's partly an artifact of HGAC's involvement. A First Ward stop (and, for that matter, a Heights Boulevard/Yale stop) would be incredibly useful. Better connectivity to the other side of I-10 would be too, but the width of the freeway makes that prohibitively expensive.
  4. Texasota
    I'm not seeing anywhere in Madrid more than 5 minutes from a bus stop, though I can't be sure of the frequency of every bus line. But let's say you're correct. At a minimum, there are definitely cities with good transit that also have dead zones/underserved areas. Is this just a general objection to hyperbole?
  5. Texasota
    Obviously not a country, but a city? Definitely. This is part of why treating buses as serious transit is important; you need them to get to that level of access. In a city with decent transit, you start getting multiple transit options to choose between depending on the needs of a specific trip. Maybe the subway is 10 minutes away (while a bus is 5), but the subway will get you to your destination faster. Do you want to walk further or have a longer overall trip? A 5 minute walk is 1/4 of a mile, so all you need is frequent transit lines consistently within 1/2 mile of each other.
  6. Texasota
    Nobody is expecting the outer suburbs and exurbs to disappear, but the balance of growth has already changed. Yes, we continue to destroy the Katy Prairie for low density development, but the city itself is also densifying. Serving that densifying population better is just as important as serving the exurban dually drivers. Also, just to go back to Copenhagen as an example: most of it was built in the 19th century or later. There are new neighborhoods being built *now* on reclaimed land. Most of Barcelona in 19th and 20th century development. 20th and 21st century suburbs in Spain, Germany, etc all have transit access most cities in the US should be envious of. Tokyo is constantly being rebuilt. This is not a question of when a city was built, this is a question of how we decide to build and what we decide to prioritize.
  7. Texasota
    These conversations always devolve into an absurd binary, as though wanting better transit means you think cars should be illegal or are never useful. Is a car useful if you want to go to Azurmendi or hop between towns in La Rioja? Sure. Nobody is saying cars are never useful, but they are *far* less efficient most of the time. And it's really not just about density. Density helps, but the minimum density at which transit can work is a lot lower than people seem to think. Greater Copenhagen is roughly the same size, population, and overall density as the city of Houston, yet it supports a network of subways and express buses that arrive every 2 minutes all day every day. And "we're not dense enough to support transit" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. We continue to destroy our own cities to make room for cars, which perpetuates that lack of density, which continues to excuse the same type of development. This is a choice. It is not inevitable, and we don't have to keep making the same mistakes.
  8. Texasota
    I just... you highway apologist weirdos have been to other countries right? Cars are *incredibly* inefficient, but we also have some of the poorest transit infrastructure in the entire word, so you have to go elsewhere to experience how transit is supposed to work. The independence offered by a car is often an illusion. With a well-designed transit system, you're *always* within a 5 minute walk of access to the system, and ...that's all you need. You're never stuck in traffic. You never have to worry about parking. If a train is full, you wait a few minutes. And yeah, I realize we can never hope to have the advanced transit network of a wealthy, hyper-advanced, futuristic country like *checks notes* Spain, but that doesn't say anything about the inherent value of transit. It just says a lot about how deeply broken and backward our ability to build infrastructure has become.
  9. Texasota
    A bar could be great, depending on what it is. If it's too clubby or something that's a problem, but something more laid back like a Double Trouble or something? I would welcome that as a neighbor.
  10. Texasota
    hey even us two percenters recognize that recycling is mostly a scam now that China isn't paying for it.
  11. Texasota
    That's the thing; these buildings *can* be done well. They don't actually have to look like Katy projectile vomited them into the city.
  12. Texasota
    Really? How functional is its stupid hat?
  13. Texasota
    I cannot overstate how much I hate this.
  14. Texasota
    I'm surprised they weren't required to as part of the development. Maybe because it's a feeder? Not that that *should* matter.
  15. Texasota
    um. They should probably rethink that name.
  16. Texasota
    You mean while watching a lemur be terrified because of flashing lights, loud noises, and lots of people.
  17. Texasota
    Yeah that's an instant nope. The City needs to keep a *very* close eye on this place, and hopefully it doesnt last very long.
  18. Texasota
    Now somebody just needs to convince HCC to sell their parking lot.
  19. Texasota
    That suggests either incompetence or a lack of actual interest in building towers, no?
  20. Texasota
    I can see the use I suppose, but the Galleria seems like an odd choice for this. Maybe downtown or in a neighborhood I could see.
  21. Texasota
    I... what? What exactly is this?
  22. Texasota
    I really wish the City had had some sort of plan to implement a street grid in this area when it started changing. I am really concerned this is going to end up a bunch of stuff with their backs to each other between 11th and Old Katy.
  23. Texasota
    Nothing should ever be allowed to be named "Crave" again.
  24. Texasota
    This is pretty good, but, especially since they're replacing a building I like, I wish it were a lot bigger.
  25. Texasota
    Or, ideally, a ramen place that's not just a mediocre chain.
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