Tumbleweed_Tx

it's still there, it still sucks balls, and it's been made worse by the lanes being cut down to two.

The solution to the problem is having a small median there so traffic turning left doesn't have to go through two lights.

On 9/6/2021 at 1:48 PM, innerloop said:

The tunnel end transitions are progressing slowly. They've installed six of the eight with the two most westwardly left to do.

And there hasn't been any visible progress on the reroute of the jogging trail along that part of Memorial. 

the jogging trails are being moved soon, they are going where the contractors are storing all the dirt they are using to fill in around the tunnels. It's almost nice enough weather for me to return to the Park. Forget that jogging slowly in 90 degee heat stuff... lol

so the Kombat Kroger is the new Disco Kroger?

6 hours ago, samagon said:

 

unless it's actually running and is 2/14 hours fast, in which case, whoever set the clock must have family in Halifax, or Tokyo.

Blame Canada, eh

3 hours ago, monarch said:

^^^ now, that is LED lighting design done correctly.  simply beautiful!

yeah, it looks like it's lighting fixtures and not strips, like they have at City Hall.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's in Hermann Foundation's agreement with Memorial to keep the old building intact

On 7/23/2021 at 7:27 PM, Ross said:

Precision Transmission in Amarillo. Guy can tear down an automatic transmission in 30 minutes, explaining everything that's wrong with it https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYAAY7V9ifGS7Q8S35EFVnw

 

I see a lot of transmissions come apart, but i haven't seen one go back together... heh

There's the old standbys, Vice Grip Garage, Uncle Tony's Garage (for the Mopar or No Car crowd), letsdig18 for those who like watching excavators work, Post10, Coldwarmotors, JonathanW for old cars and machinery, the boat the internet built SV Seeker, sreetips the gold and silver recycler, and all the watchmakers because you have to appreciate the workmanship of the old school watches.

And, what happens when a car carrier rolls over and sinks in the St Simon Sound? You send a machine out to cut it into sections. The Minorcan Mullet Report does daily updates on the progress. 

this kind of reminds me of the Las Vegas Town Square, which is on Las Vegas Blvd south of 215. The only things this will have that LVTS doesn't have is residential units and the bayou. It's too close to the runway at McCarran for residential.

Houston is a business town, not a flashy tourist trap town.

The flashiest thing this city had for a while was that Enron E. They went bankrupt. remember the Microcache computer stores? The owner of that store bought the E, had it on display at his location, now he's out of business.

Plus, someone here said that residents of Houston House complained about light pollution when they lit up the Wedge Building in that green neon.
Leds are maintenance intensive if you buy the cheap crap, not so much of you buy the good stuff, which happens to be made waaaaay out here in Ft Bend County. 

A friend works for a TV station in the Northeast. He called me asked if I could have a look at their station's outdoor display. it was a great low-res wall when it was made in the late 90's, but getting parts for that system is next to impossible, so i had to pass. Imagine owning a building downtown, installing a million dollar LED display, having it go bad and need replacing in a few years. I'd go without, too.

the construction barrier around the Square is a huge improvement over the old plaza  :)

there's 6 million people in this area? Has anyone hold those people to stop coming, we're full?  heh

On 8/15/2021 at 3:59 PM, 77011transplant said:

I'm pretty sure 713 Music Hall is the official name.

puke.

But, coming from their incompetent marketing department, I'm not surprised

it's not as bad as this, but it's comparable. This is the Dresden Museum Of Military History.

nice

they didn't think...

...it would be necessary to use mats.

Usually, anything said after "I didn't think" is unnecessary.

4 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

Or encased in buildings?  

like this old Western Union switching building?

it's like they're giving it a very unflattering nose job

I'm getting new tires tomorrow, will give this a spin on Sunday when I'm in the area

also not exposed to explosives.... (yeah, watch the video in slo motion)

I drove by this yesterday. I'm back on the 'it's estupid' train

On 7/14/2021 at 3:44 PM, MexAmerican_Moose said:

 

https://bridgehunter.com/tx/harris/bh50785/

This bridge is from 1931!! Great service life. I like the old school rails on the bridge tho, i wish we constructed more similar rails in TX. We cant because of the traffic rating required at high speeds.

you have to remember that bride was built for Model T type cars, back when the Old Spanish Trail was the main east-west route in the southern US.  It looks like a typical 1920's bridge, you can still find them all over the place, most have been decommissioned

Wham Bam Tram didn't catch on (and they improved the roads around the train or stopped reporting accidents after the first few hundred), so it's just the train

that's the trailer... lol

that reminds me, I need to call a bud who occasionally works there and find out if Robot's videos are still around