It happens so frequently that it's almost unremarkable. A common variation of this is a scammer claiming to be calling from the IRS. The IRS doesn't do phone calls like that. They will either send you written correspondence . . . or they just show up at your door. . . .
They already know that hardly anyone remembers this school even exists, so they don't bother bringing it up in conversation. While the enrollment has grown some recently, it wasn't long ago that they had fewer students on campus than a UIL Class 5A high school.
Hard disagree on order of operations. It starts with the public transportation network getting improved first to provide riders with a positive experience that provides a competitive alternative to driving. I'm pretty sure that there are lots of residents like myself that would be glad to switch with a better product available.
Wasn't the messaging that it was too dangerous to operate safely and that couldn't be changed in a timely manner? They emphasised that the decision was not made lightly.
I would contend that Fort Bend would be the counter-example to this generalization. Literally 1 out of every 5 county residents is an Asian immigrant or of Asian descent. (In fact, this just reminded me that I haven't made it to the new Filipino grocery that just opened off of 59 this year....)
Probably helps that Sugar Land had a little head start. For a long time I would look at maps of the area and wondered why the suburban sprawl hadn't blossomed down Pearland's way as it had to the north and west of Houston.. But it's there now and maybe the beautification will eventually catch up.
Yep. Not many trains and busses around. And the public transport we do have is kinda useless. I used to work with a guy who spent 4 hours per day commuting via public transport. If he had a car it would have been 80 minutes. Houston is just too spread out. It was designed that way on purpose. Rumor has it the auto industries lobbied for a car-centric city planning format.
For several years I was the poster child for useless Houston public transit. My Metro commute would have been two hours with multiple transfers to travel 9 miles one-way, versus driving myself for 25 minutes.
Ironically, this is totally believable to longtime residents. Especially if you don't live in Harris County and would never be summoned for jury duty there.
This reminds me of what happened in Galveston a couple years ago when a drunk driver killed four people who just happened to be on a golf cart . . . and the knee-jerk reaction from residents was to push for more regulations on golf carts.
Seems like they're slowly getting people used to it. People eventually stopped talking about US 75 -- the old highway number of I-45 -- so it's not like it's never happened in Houston before.
South Meadows at S. Kirkwood(between W. Bellfort and W.Airport)used to have stop signs and the cops there would bust drivers who didn't come to a complete stop. Then they decided to have these turn circles which i have never seen anywhere in town. It eliminated stop signs and actually has turned out to be good with traffic flow.
The Kirkwood roundabouts were such a good decision. As you said, traffic flows much better and they actually do a better job at forcing drivers to slow down than the 4-way stops did. (The worst offenders would just ignore the stop signs completely.)
I wish they'd repurpose that and just have a straight shot to the two airports and back. It'd be a lot cheaper and easier for people to either take a bus there or get dropped off by a friend/uber than to go all the way to the airports. Keep that at a regular schedule and I'd bet it'd reach a 1000 daily riders much faster. Hell, charge a premium for it like $3 a ride and people will still use it.
I think most everyone has forgotten about the Airport Direct service that Metro tried a decade ago I think -- true express bus service between IAH and downtown every 15 minutes. It got cancelled due to low ridership. I'm was not surprised, because I would wager that most arrivals to IAH are not bound for downtown . . . but other points in our sprawling metropolitan area.
I'm pretty sure overall sale prices will continue to be whatever buyers can bear to pay. (I haven't heard that supply has caught up with demand yet.) The end of the 6% commission standard might mean a bigger percentage of those sales proceeds will end up the in the pockets of the sellers though.
Yeah, sellers will benefit for sure. But I think buyers too. Last time I bought a house, long time ago, I negotiated a buyer agent for 1%. I did all the homework and agent just did some paperwork, no showings. I lower my offer by 2% and write in my offer cover letter. The seller agent did not present my offer cover letter. My offer was accepted and seller agent got 5% and my agent 1%……!!!! Ouch for the seller (who was the neighbor of the selling agent 😂)
Y’all are delusional if you think inner loop is cheap. Sure if you live east of i45 but anything west is in the millions if you’re trying to buy a house. Houston is an affordable city but only if you live outside the loop.
This should not be a secret to anyone. More than 90% of the population of the Houston metro area lives outside of Loop 610. The inner-Loop life is actually the exception, not the rule.
Energy Corridor is a good spot for that income and the homes are some of the best built in the Houston from 50s-70s. Can get to anywhere in Houston on tolls roads in 20 mins.
This is part of the reason why I want to see development of more extensive Bus Rapid Transit lane networks. Someday, if/when autonomous driving is ready for prime time, those vehicles will perform best when they have right-of-way space separated from normal traffic. (I don't foresee human drivers disappearing overnight.) It would be nice if we could have that space ready and waiting. In the meantime, our existing buses could sure use it to speed up transit trips.
Imagine if the West Loop 610 freeway existed in isolation -- no Katy Freeway, no Southwest Freeway, no North Loop or South Loop connections -- only local streets feeding into it. Not many drivers would be using this lonely West Loop either. Being able to travel at freeway speeds only from San Felipe to Richmond is of very limited value to drivers.
The city is using Metro funds to pave the city. Whitmire already prefaced this move by bullshitting that Metro Buses are the reason the city's streets are in poor conditions. At the same time Whitmire is trashing all shovel-ready multi-modal redos that have been researched and planned years ago.
Sounds like the "General Mobility Program" in action -- a diversion of about a quarter of Metro's sales tax revenue to municipal and county governments and typically spent on roads. It's a practice that was re-affirmed by referendum back in 2012. I've long wondered what things might be like if we spent that money on transit again.
IT job titles are a free-for-all with no rules . . . nor consequences for being misleading.
It happens so frequently that it's almost unremarkable. A common variation of this is a scammer claiming to be calling from the IRS. The IRS doesn't do phone calls like that. They will either send you written correspondence . . . or they just show up at your door. . . .
Whats crazy to me, i have never met anyone who goes to this school.
They already know that hardly anyone remembers this school even exists, so they don't bother bringing it up in conversation. While the enrollment has grown some recently, it wasn't long ago that they had fewer students on campus than a UIL Class 5A high school.
Houstonians need to ride the bus more in order to encourage demand for more public transportation
Hard disagree on order of operations. It starts with the public transportation network getting improved first to provide riders with a positive experience that provides a competitive alternative to driving. I'm pretty sure that there are lots of residents like myself that would be glad to switch with a better product available.
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Wasn't the messaging that it was too dangerous to operate safely and that couldn't be changed in a timely manner? They emphasised that the decision was not made lightly.
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I would contend that Fort Bend would be the counter-example to this generalization. Literally 1 out of every 5 county residents is an Asian immigrant or of Asian descent. (In fact, this just reminded me that I haven't made it to the new Filipino grocery that just opened off of 59 this year....)
Agree I live in Pearland and I think sugar land is way prettier plus they have so much more stuff to do there.
Probably helps that Sugar Land had a little head start. For a long time I would look at maps of the area and wondered why the suburban sprawl hadn't blossomed down Pearland's way as it had to the north and west of Houston.. But it's there now and maybe the beautification will eventually catch up.
What are msps? I keep seeing this term on the subreddit.
Managed Services Provider -- basically a company that will take on functions of an IT department on behalf of a client.
Yep. Not many trains and busses around. And the public transport we do have is kinda useless. I used to work with a guy who spent 4 hours per day commuting via public transport. If he had a car it would have been 80 minutes. Houston is just too spread out. It was designed that way on purpose. Rumor has it the auto industries lobbied for a car-centric city planning format.
For several years I was the poster child for useless Houston public transit. My Metro commute would have been two hours with multiple transfers to travel 9 miles one-way, versus driving myself for 25 minutes.
I know 30 year olds who have lived in greater Houston area all their life and have never been to downtown
Ironically, this is totally believable to longtime residents. Especially if you don't live in Harris County and would never be summoned for jury duty there.
Can we try for statehood?
It's been pointed out that Harris County alone has more people than several U.S. states.
This reminds me of what happened in Galveston a couple years ago when a drunk driver killed four people who just happened to be on a golf cart . . . and the knee-jerk reaction from residents was to push for more regulations on golf carts.
If you are not allergic to Facebook, look for the group called "Filipino Small Businesses, Restaurants and Groceries - Houston, Texas"
Been driving for work on 45, 610, 288, and 59 regularly since 2012.
After a long trend of declining road deaths in the United States, the National Safety Council has noted a post-2019 spike
Yes, it has gotten worse.
I still can’t used to saying “Interstate 69”. 🤣
Seems like they're slowly getting people used to it. People eventually stopped talking about US 75 -- the old highway number of I-45 -- so it's not like it's never happened in Houston before.
South Meadows at S. Kirkwood(between W. Bellfort and W.Airport)used to have stop signs and the cops there would bust drivers who didn't come to a complete stop. Then they decided to have these turn circles which i have never seen anywhere in town. It eliminated stop signs and actually has turned out to be good with traffic flow.
The Kirkwood roundabouts were such a good decision. As you said, traffic flows much better and they actually do a better job at forcing drivers to slow down than the 4-way stops did. (The worst offenders would just ignore the stop signs completely.)
I wish they'd repurpose that and just have a straight shot to the two airports and back. It'd be a lot cheaper and easier for people to either take a bus there or get dropped off by a friend/uber than to go all the way to the airports. Keep that at a regular schedule and I'd bet it'd reach a 1000 daily riders much faster. Hell, charge a premium for it like $3 a ride and people will still use it.
I think most everyone has forgotten about the Airport Direct service that Metro tried a decade ago I think -- true express bus service between IAH and downtown every 15 minutes. It got cancelled due to low ridership. I'm was not surprised, because I would wager that most arrivals to IAH are not bound for downtown . . . but other points in our sprawling metropolitan area.
Understandable decision. But I will flip a table if I hear about any proposal to rebuild Post Oak again to return that ROW to general traffic.
How does this even happen in the middle of the day when the sun is shining multilane road that is flat and straight?
Flat-and-straight is actually the cue for today's drivers to turn their attention off.
I'm pretty sure overall sale prices will continue to be whatever buyers can bear to pay. (I haven't heard that supply has caught up with demand yet.) The end of the 6% commission standard might mean a bigger percentage of those sales proceeds will end up the in the pockets of the sellers though.
Yeah, sellers will benefit for sure. But I think buyers too. Last time I bought a house, long time ago, I negotiated a buyer agent for 1%. I did all the homework and agent just did some paperwork, no showings. I lower my offer by 2% and write in my offer cover letter. The seller agent did not present my offer cover letter. My offer was accepted and seller agent got 5% and my agent 1%……!!!! Ouch for the seller (who was the neighbor of the selling agent 😂)
Except . . . what area was the house in and what year was it?
Just got hired into local government IT: $56K
This YouTube video is 9 years old, but the parts about boarding and alighting mostly holds up:
Y’all are delusional if you think inner loop is cheap. Sure if you live east of i45 but anything west is in the millions if you’re trying to buy a house. Houston is an affordable city but only if you live outside the loop.
This should not be a secret to anyone. More than 90% of the population of the Houston metro area lives outside of Loop 610. The inner-Loop life is actually the exception, not the rule.
Energy Corridor is a good spot for that income and the homes are some of the best built in the Houston from 50s-70s. Can get to anywhere in Houston on tolls roads in 20 mins.
As long as that 20 mins isn't part of rush hour, then yeah, you can reach a big portion of Houston in that time.
When have we ever seen a parking lot converted to something useful?
Unless we're not allowed to call a park useful, Discovery Green comes to mind as an example.
Not enough density, too spread out to get the public transit and too spread out for the final mile.
This is part of the reason why I want to see development of more extensive Bus Rapid Transit lane networks. Someday, if/when autonomous driving is ready for prime time, those vehicles will perform best when they have right-of-way space separated from normal traffic. (I don't foresee human drivers disappearing overnight.) It would be nice if we could have that space ready and waiting. In the meantime, our existing buses could sure use it to speed up transit trips.
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Imagine if the West Loop 610 freeway existed in isolation -- no Katy Freeway, no Southwest Freeway, no North Loop or South Loop connections -- only local streets feeding into it. Not many drivers would be using this lonely West Loop either. Being able to travel at freeway speeds only from San Felipe to Richmond is of very limited value to drivers.
The city is using Metro funds to pave the city. Whitmire already prefaced this move by bullshitting that Metro Buses are the reason the city's streets are in poor conditions. At the same time Whitmire is trashing all shovel-ready multi-modal redos that have been researched and planned years ago.
Sounds like the "General Mobility Program" in action -- a diversion of about a quarter of Metro's sales tax revenue to municipal and county governments and typically spent on roads. It's a practice that was re-affirmed by referendum back in 2012. I've long wondered what things might be like if we spent that money on transit again.
The 41 is fine except it can get bogged down in traffic along Kirby, especially in the afternoons.
And, of course, this can be applied to any Metro route that doesn't enjoy separation from general traffic. :)