Houston19514
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40 minutes ago, hindesky said:
With McDonalds gone and the Greyhound shut down plus an HPD officer at the gas station almost every time I go by, the vagrants have dispersed to other locations.
They are a block to the east (at least they were last week -- in greater numbers than had recently been the case).
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New HAS video of International Terminal construction:
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On 1/26/2024 at 2:33 PM, mattyt36 said:
Worth noting:
(1) DFW international traffic is more seasonal, with multiple seasonal European routes. Therefore, it should be expected that IAH's numbers look "better" relative to DFW in other months.
(2) International traffic growth at both airports has been strong, but looking forward DFW is still growing faster than IAH. Percent change in international scheduled seats versus the same month in 2023:
Month: DFW/IAH
Jan: 15.9%/15.2%
Feb: 20.7%/18.0%
Mar: 17.7%/11.6%
Apr: 16.1%/11.8%
May: 14.8%/12.4%
Jun: 9.3%/6.7%
New international routes for DFW served in 2024 not served pre-COVID:
AKL (long haul), BCN (long haul), HEL (long haul), HND (long haul), IST, LTO, MEL (long haul), MID, TQO, XPL, ZLO
New routes for IAH in 2024:
GEO, HND (long haul), NLU, TQO, XPL
New airlines for DFW: Finnair, Iberia, Turkish
New airlines for IAH: Volaris El Salvador
I believe both DFW and IAH are in India now (or were earlier in the week) on a trade mission with the governor and other state officials. (Guess the border crisis can't be that bad!) Air India has announced intentions to begin service to DFW.
Who would you rather be? Context remains key.
Also, Turkish started their DFW service in 2021. There doesn't seem to be anyone from DFW Airport on the India economic development mission. And I don't know of any announcement of DFW service by Air India. (DFW being DFW, there is zero chance that an announcement was made without it showing up on DFW's website and in the Dallas Morning News; searches of each turn up nothing.)
(Just realized I slightly misstated the growth numbers in my prior post, and I missed the edit window. Those growth rates were for the calendar year 2023 through November, not the full year. I'll post the full year as soon as DFW posts their numbers.)
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On 1/26/2024 at 2:33 PM, mattyt36 said:
Worth noting:
(1) DFW international traffic is more seasonal, with multiple seasonal European routes. Therefore, it should be expected that IAH's numbers look "better" relative to DFW in other months.
(2) International traffic growth at both airports has been strong, but looking forward DFW is still growing faster than IAH. Percent change in international scheduled seats versus the same month in 2023:
Month: DFW/IAH
Jan: 15.9%/15.2%
Feb: 20.7%/18.0%
Mar: 17.7%/11.6%
Apr: 16.1%/11.8%
May: 14.8%/12.4%
Jun: 9.3%/6.7%
New international routes for DFW served in 2024 not served pre-COVID:
AKL (long haul), BCN (long haul), HEL (long haul), HND (long haul), IST, LTO, MEL (long haul), MID, TQO, XPL, ZLO
New routes for IAH in 2024:
GEO, HND (long haul), NLU, TQO, XPL
New airlines for DFW: Finnair, Iberia, Turkish
New airlines for IAH: Volaris El Salvador
I believe both DFW and IAH are in India now (or were earlier in the week) on a trade mission with the governor and other state officials. (Guess the border crisis can't be that bad!) Air India has announced intentions to begin service to DFW.
Who would you rather be? Context remains key.
I wish we'd get the love from United that DFW gets from American. But I'd rather have Bush IAH's international traffic growth of 22.4% for 2023 than DFW's 14.3% growth. (By the way, I think Finnair and Iberia have both been at DFW since 2022; good for them that they finally joined Houston in having service from Turkish.)
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On 1/27/2024 at 9:03 PM, JClark54 said:
You wrote, "Of course it will be replaced," rather than operating where they are.
Greyhound told me this week it has yet to find a new Dallas station location, it is facing barriers doing so in Dallas, and it has yet to determine whether a curbside method would work in Dallas.
Did I write it will leave Dallas in perpetuity? No, I must certainly did not. I wrote that's not the case as of this date in response to your of course it will be replaced statement based off Greyhound's statements about the situation in Dallas.
I don't care to engage in these online arguments you seem to take enjoyment in. If you have information Greyhound does not, please contact them. I'm sure they would love the insight you provide.
I’ve said Greyhound will replace their Dallas station. You’ve now told us Greyhound is in fact working on replacing the station. Thanks for the confirmation.
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6 hours ago, samagon said:
don't disagree with you.
the claim by TXDoT that flooding causing breaks in commercial traffic and citing how much commerce was impacted is an atrocious argument. I could give two shits about long haul trucking needs through Houston. if TXDoT comes at me with the number of people have died on that stretch of road because of flooding, ok, now you have my attention, but throwing the commercial impact like that matters to locals?
that reasoning makes it very clear that the safety and lives of humans who use those freeways daily are less important than moving freight, unless I missed that part of the presentation where they talk about mitigating people getting stuck in a flooded car on the freeway and drowning.
sorry for not coming out and just saying that from the get go, it's just that kind of a statement on a presentation just really pulls out that kind of snarky reply.
anyway, let's not talk about raising Houston's freeways, we just talked about going below grade on all of them around downtown. I guess because they aren't in a bayou floodplain, but then, neither is 59 near Montrose, and one of the most iconic pictures of flooded highways in Houston is a dude kayaking down 59. and we just saw 288 get a shiny new refresh, that goes right through a bayou, floods regularly because it is in a bayou floodplain, and all they did was add (managed) lanes. there's little consistency, so it's hard for me to accept a rebuild because of floodplain to really be a thing. I guess maybe the amount of commercial impact on 288 was less, so who cares if it floods, right?
and let's not even discuss that the commercial impact argument ignores that there are alternate routes to avoid a flooded I-10. 610 (either direction), beltway 8 (either direction), soon to be Grand Parkway.
I’m pretty sure that pic of Southwest Freeway was taken before the project was completed and that is has not flooded since.
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7 hours ago, JClark54 said:
That's not the case as of this date.
As of this date, and until October, they are still operating where they are. The chances of Greyhound not having a station in the Dallas are similar to the chances of the nation’s tallest building being built in Oklahoma City.
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10 hours ago, steve1363 said:
Dallas Greyhound station closing... will be interesting to see if it is replaced. Wonder if Houston will get more traffic as a result?
DMN reporting...
Greyhound is closing its Dallas terminal, leaving low-income travelers in limbo
Of course it wil be replaced.
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On 10/12/2023 at 12:55 PM, __nevii said:
Please tell me that the developers of this project were aware of EaDo's parking minimum exemption?
. Another example of how parking minimums are not the evil they are made out to be here on HAIF. I hope someone will point out the first significant development that provides less parking than they would have been required to provide under the previous regulations. Downtown has not had minimum parking requirements for many years, and yet, every hotel, apartment building, condo, and office building has provided parking; in all cases I'm aware, every bit as generously as the regulations would have required.
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International Traffic Report:
NOVEMBER 2023:
Houston:
- Bush Intercontinental: 913,808 (up 13.4% from 2022)
- Hobby International: 71,010 (down 3.2% from 2022)
- Houston Total: 984,818
- DFW: 910,223 (up 11% from 2022)
- San Antonio: 55,701 (up 26.2% from 2022)
2023 YTD through November:
- Bush Intercontinental: 10,541,105 (up 22.4% from 2022)
- Hobby International: 897,196 (up 7.0% from 2022)
- Houston Total: 11,438,301 (up 21% from 2022)
- DFW: 10,137,803 (up 14.3% from 2022)
- San Antonio: 553,131 (up 10.3% from 2022)
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2 hours ago, samagon said:
how many of the flooding events happened during an evacuation? the same answer is true. the evacuation happens before the event. there is a point when the message changes from "evacuate" to our favorite term "shelter in place". sometimes, before an event, there isn't time for city, or county officials to execute an evacuation plan and we go straight to shelter in place.
no one ever is recommended to evacuate during an event, that creates an even worse possible scenario of being stranded without any shelter at all.
the city, county or state will never issue an evacuation order when it is not safe to travel, if it determined to not be safe to travel, the evacuation will stop and it will transition to shelter in place. so no, your scenario of a freeway being inundated with water during an evacuation will never happen, nor has it ever happened.
I can think of one scenario where the media sent the entire town into a frenzy, which overwhelmed the infrastructure, people who had not been instructed to evacuate, attempted to flee, in essence, the freeways were shut down due to people running out of gas and making the freeways (all of them) impassible, so people were still in evacuation mode (even though the official statement had shifted from evacuate to shelter in place). we were extremely lucky that none of the freeways flooded at that time and the storm took a late turn and went in farther east. anyway, that is an excellent example of why there will never be an evacuation order at the same time as there is potential flooding, we will be in shelter in place.
Even if all that is true, just because there are occasions when freeways have to be closed for construction is not really a good reason to NOT fix flooding of the freeways.
Here's an interesting audio on the topic of raising Houston's freeways https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2019/11/07/351265/when-it-rains-houstons-freeways-flood-one-researcher-wants-to-change-that/
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1 hour ago, j_cuevas713 said:
I mean the point was to eliminate the focus on cars. U-turns directly conflict with pedestrians in the median which is a major rec spot. The street also didn't have u-turns before the esplanade, it was a 4 lane road with 2 lanes each direction.
You seem confused. We are speaking of a U-turn lane connecting the west-bound I-10 frontage road to the eastbound frontage road. Zero interference with the Heights Blvd esplanade.
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16 hours ago, htownbro said:
no seriously they are. just looks so out of place
no seriously, that will not be built.
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8 hours ago, Triton said:
This is probably really unpopular on this forum but I wish this project would have included some connection to Studemont. Yes yes, I know, that's making Houston more car centric but I just always felt the way to get back to Studemont was odd. That don't even have a u-turn up at Heights Blvd so it always causes a back up of people turning around going back to Studemont. I guess one of the big challenges would be to make it work with the existing bike trail... and that's probably why they avoid it, not to mention the local backlash.
Yeah, I've never understood the lack of a u-turn lane at Heights Blvd.
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How much unease is there in the Austin real estate community about the fast-approaching glut of office space and HUGE glut of downtown apartments?
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I often wonder why Houstonians, especially HAIFers, are so eager to find failure.
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Zero chance.
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On 1/17/2024 at 1:22 PM, samagon said:
and flooded isn't necessarily impassable.
I wonder during that same 32 year history, how many times was the freeway shut down for construction? all lanes, in all directions? duration for those, I expect 9pm Friday evening through 5am Monday morning to be the duration...
I can think of 2 or 3 times alone for the Elysian street viaduct rebuild.
probably more than the times it's been shut down for floods.
How many of those construction shut-downs (e.g. Elysian) occurred during an evacuation? I'll do the research for you: None. Then consider when the freeway is most likely to be inundated with water; that's right, during an evacuation.
1 hour ago, j_cuevas713 said:It's a ridiculous waste of money. These guys don't know of anything else but moving cars. And they also started laying this project out KNOWING Metro was building their new BRT line and had conflicting plans. Why is it so hard for this agency to use those same monies and help create a commuter rail plan for the area?
FWIW, Metro and TxDoT are closely coordinating their plans.
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26 minutes ago, Some one said:
I don't get it. So they want to elevate I-10 to get it out of the floodplain.... but they also want to sink 45 and 59 below ground so they can function as a floodplain? How inconsistent.
They are not sinking 45 and 59 “so they can serve as a floodplain “. The below-grade segments will be drained with pumping systems. The section of I-10 being raised runs next to and over a bayou , so sinking it would not be feasible.
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On January 9, terminal B north officially closed along with the post-security connector between C and B.
The last if the banjos will be demolished soon.
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Recent YouTube video of Bush Airport construction:
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13 hours ago, j_cuevas713 said:
There was a murder on the Red Line yesterday. Metro needs to step it up and have Metro Police at all stations at all times
Agreed, it seems Metro needs to step up the Police presence, but I'm not sure how much police at stations will deter crime ON the train... (FWIW, the entire city of Houston needs to step up police presence; hopefully the new Mayor will follow through on that promise ASAP.)
Here's the story. What is not clear (and this is not a criticism of the story; it would be difficult for anyone to know this unless they find the perp), is whether the fighting men knew each other.
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1 hour ago, monarch said:
^^^ animated fountains - las vegas
^^^ animated fountains - dubai, uae
^^^ yet, in other cities like DUBAI and LAS VEGAS and so on, "animated fountains" seem to harbor no issues staying operable throughout. trust me, i have personally witnessed these particular and remarkable fetes of mankind many times... especially in dubai, uae. therefore, i'm just not interested in the "EXCUSES" for houston's non-viability with basically the same instruments and technology. something is REALLY wrong here...
I don't know about Dubai, but certainly, in the case of Las Vegas, you are comparing private, for-profit, operations with a city operation. The fountains are a big part of the marketing identity for those casinos and the like. The profit motive is very motivating indeed. Public entities just don't function as well. The last time I was in Rome, the Trevi Fountain wasn't working.
The other problem with your post is that none of us are in these other places all the time, monitoring their operations 24/7. All fountains need some maintenance from time to time. It is highly unlikely that the various fountains in Las Vegas, Dubai, etc. are ALWAYS fully operational.
But we're all thrilled that you've been to Dubai AND Las Vegas (or at least are able find lovely videos of their animated fountains on the internet).
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I had never heard of Bridge of Minor Champions either. It looks like it's another Houston oddity:
"This bridge is lovely and mysterious. At one point there were trophies adorning both sides of the bridge. It's minor champions include many birds from near and far including a Night Heron family that returns every year to raise their young. Take a look at Japhet Creek as you cross. If you are lucky you may spot an alligator snapping turtle. Their are some that are up to 150 years old. I love this bridge and all it's wild family. Hope you have an opportunity to enjoy this Houston treasure."
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TxDOT Proposes Elevating I-10 near I-45
in Traffic and Transportation
Posted · Edited by Houston19514
Well, I guess you make a good case for elevating freeways...