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They should replace one of the parking lots with a fenced dog park.

oh come on.

Now I'm also confused. 

Unless they plan on using those houses as additional businesses...

I hate them. Stop tearing things down for parking!

i hate them

Elevators - ooh la la. Fancy.

I don't mind the aesthetic though.

It was a huge missed opportunity when they tore down half of the original campus to replace it with... low density garden apartments, but uglier.

They really did a great job on the windows.

It's a what exactly now?

Not really. Is it all of them or any specific ones that are confusing?

I will say I think a second lane always makes a roundabout a bit more confusing and stressful. This one isn't too bad, but I do think the inside westbound lane when turning right from Washington is a little confusing. Can you continue into the turn or do you have to continue through the roundabout from that lane?

23 hours ago, s3mh said:

I bet this intersection could be reconstructed to make it into a four way intersection with a traffic light.  Arnot really should be widened as it is a well trafficked entrance to Memorial Park.  Eminent domain Shipleys to give some room for Westcott and Washington to come together.  It is just a fact of life that people in the south will never be able to figure out how to drive through a rotary.  

Yes of course. The people of Houston, a city of immigrants that's more than 1/4 foreign-born, will never be able to learn how to use a roundabout.

We are just that dumb.

theres that value engineering.

That would be great. These things really help at unsignaled intersections. 

I'd also say it looks better in person than in photos. There's a depth to the detailing that's really only perceptible with the naked eye.

The sidewalk in front of Heights Social is fine. This is just an ugly, cheap looking building from the outside.

But that's also exacerbated by its immediate neighbors. This is perfectly fine infill, but its best neighbor is that awful bar with its unspeakable name. 

That just looks like HDR abuse to me. 

yeah if they close the bikeway is a convenient scapegoat. 

uh, no offense, but this is just some exurban strip mall development. They're not even trying for a "town center". It's just strip malls and pad sites.

No left turns on to or out of Stanford - they're proposing a center island with cutouts for bikes and pedestrians to pass through.

As someone who used to live on Stanford, I am *hugely* in favor of this.

I haven't seen any issues with traffic over the last week, even with work still ongoing as you get closer to Shepherd. 

It's an obvious (and fantastic) location for an infill station. If Metro owns that much land, hopefully they can load it up with a Bcycle station and protected bike parking to take advantage of the trail. 

And a little coffee shop.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.8976258,-77.0073467,3a,75y,269.34h,88.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPxxfOjrU5tUSQp_rHjXC1w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e3

Interesting that you mentioned that "The cost IS an issue for people whose only option is to cycle to work" as a negative about bike share and are now suggesting charging a fee for bike parking. 

I think editor is referring to public bike parking for privately owned bikes, not Citi Bike stations.

That would be incredibly difficult to track because it's so decentralized.

Bcycle has subsidized membership options, and bikes have maintenance and occasional replacement costs.

"lucky enough to live next to one" - again, the system becomes more useful to more people the more you expand it.

This just isn't the zero sum game you're trying to portray it as. You don't have to use bikeshare; that doesn't mean it isn't useful.