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    From the CNN article: ". . . Greyhound last month closed its centrally-located terminal and moved to a smaller stop with less access to public transit." Their new station is a good deal closer to a light rail station and a transit center than the old Midtown station.
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    I think there's a better chance most of it will become parkland (without a canal).
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    Not significantly. This count comports with my casual observations in the past. Polk just does not carry much traffic, especially eastbound. And to the extent the holidays might have impacted my traffic count, I cannot imagine any reason Polk would be more impacted by the holidays than any of the other streets leading east out of downtown.
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    The fact is, Polk Street carries very little traffic outbound from downtown. I am in that area somewhat frequently and I happened by it yesterday evening on my walk. I stopped at Polk at the southeast corner of the GRB, and stood there counting outbound vehicles for 15 minutes, from 5:20 pm to 5:35 pm, surely one of the busier times of the day for outbound traffic. Results: In 15 minutes, again, pretty close to the peak of rush hour, 11 cars took Polk Street outbound under the freeway. And 6 of them turned left on the frontage road, so were not proceeding on Polk to the East End railroad crossing. It seems reasonable to presume that some of the remaining 5 cars also took other turns or stopped somewhere in the 1.2 miles before getting to the railroad tracks. Meanwhile, Leeland, Jefferson and Pierce were all MUCH busier with outbound traffic. Really no comparison to Polk; Many multiples of the number of cars. With outbound traffic already heavily concentrated on Leeland, Jefferson and Pierce, the addition of the few vehicles currently taking Polk will be inconsequential The railroad crossing situation is much better addressed at the railroad crossings
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    Cool. But Bissonnet Street? Is there really a Bissonnet Street on the Northside?
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    Yes, the Polk Street crossing is going away. Time to let it go. OR, as Samagon put it (before his most recent 3 posts on the topic), no need to get in and rehash all of that now. Any additional amelioration of the impacts of the Polk closure, whether they be real or imagined, will have to be addressed at the railroad crossings (where the actual issue seems to be). Mods, please move the railroad posts to the appropriate thread. https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/50164-west-belt-project-underpasses-in-district-h-i-railroads/page/2/
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    Mods, can we (again) move the discussion about East End railroad crossings to the appropriate thread?
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    Bikers will probably end up better off. While you won't be able to go straight across at Polk, there will likely be better bikepaths over the cap, just to the north, and will definitely be better crossing paths on the bridges across the freeway to the south. The new bridges in the area to the south of Polk are all going to have very nice wide bike/pedestrian spaces on them.
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    Not hindesky's fault; he accurately quoted Community Impact. This is another example of why one should never trust a journalist to do math, or for that matter, to write an intelligible article. They start by telling us it is a "60,000 square foot memorial plaza" by which they apparently meant "parking lot". Then later they tell us that the "plaza" [parking lot] includes 6,000 square feet of "public gathering and tribute space" (i.e., the memorial plaza).
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    International Traffic Report: OCTOBER 2023: Houston: Bush Intercontinental: 920,833 (up 18.3% from 2022) Hobby International: 61,440 (down 2.2% from 2022) Houston Total: 982,273 DFW: 921,351 (up 8.3% from 2022) San Antonio: 53,159 (up 32.3% from 2022) 2023 YTD through October: Bush Intercontinental: 9,627,297 (up 23.3% from 2022) Hobby International: 826,186 (up 8.0% from 2022) Houston Total: 10,453,483 DFW: 9,245,649 (up 14.9% from 2022) San Antonio: 497,430 (up 8.7% from 2022)
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    Another Terminal B Transformation rendering:
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    🤣 Actually, I think it's one of the electric air taxis. Other renderings show landing spots for at least 4 on the roof of the addition to the Terminal B Central Processor
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    KHOU report on Terminal B Transformation
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    What an insane waste of money (and I'm just referring to the million-dollar "study", not the even-more-insane idea of building high-speed rail between Dallas and Fort Worth). For a tiny fraction of the cost, they could add trackage to the already-existing TRE, allowing for express trains connecting Dallas and Fort Worth. Done. Years earlier; and actually affordable.
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    I presume you are referring to North Street. Per the most recent updates from TXDoT, they are evaluating a potential pedestrian bridge over North St.
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    I don't think it's fair to blame Hines. I know the Chron said it is being developed by Hines, but, you know... the Chron... I'm pretty sure Hines is not the "developer" in the sense of owning it or being responsible for choosing the architecture. I think Hines is managing the project for SCI (one of the many ways Hines makes money). I guess it's too much to expect the local newspaper's business writers to be aware of that.
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    City requirements: Parking lot trees – each parking space must be within 120 feet of a parking lot tree or street tree. One tree for every 10 spaces is required. At least one-half of the parking lot trees will be large parking lot trees (as listed on the parking lot tree list).
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    And it also should be stated that until very recently (as in, last month), Houston was way ahead of Dallas and Austin (and for the moment remains ahead of Dallas) with regard to eliminating minimum parking requirements. Houston has not had minimum parking requirements Downtown for many years; both Dallas and Austin did (and Dallas stil does); and Houston expanded that beyond downtown in the last couple years. In a related thought: I hope someone will alert us when they see a significant development in any of these cities that provides fewer parking spaces than would have been required under their prior parking requirements.
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    Just curious . . . why would there be space for a "visiting team" in a practice facility?
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    What the crew is working on has little to do with St. Emanuel St's future as a feeder road for the freeways. What they are working on is Package #1 of Segment 3B, the first project to kick NHHIP construction. Package #1 will install a 12' x 12' box culvert beneath St. Emanuel Street, along with a pump station, drainage outfall to Buffalo Bayou and a detention pond; followed by the reconstruction of St. Emanuel Street.
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    I think that would require mechanical ventilation, which in turn would require more right-of-way.
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    Indeed, and the funding is being put together for the finishing of the tops of the caps, both the Midtown/Museum District caps and the Downtown/Eado cap.
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    You misunderstand the picture. Those cap extensions are being incorporated into the plan for construction as the project is done, not put off to the future. They just have to do additional enviro studies to make the changes to the plan.
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    At the Houston Airports, one has the option of taking a paper ticket or inserting a credit card and then using the same credit card to exit. Personally, I love the credit card option.
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