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My Houston 2040
For those who are interested, I’ll be presenting some ideas at the My Houston 2040 happy hour tomorrow night. This should be a fun presentation, and it’s a wide-open discussion format, so there will be plenty of opportunity to chime-in. The full details are attached to the end of this post.
About the new web site design
Returning readers will notice that our web site looks somewhat different today. I’ve made a bunch of changes on the surface. You’ll notice that things look a little crisper, more polished, and overall more readable. Some redundant content has been trimmed out, and the important stuff has been made more prominent.
There have been vastly bigger [...]
CNU Accreditation
I received notice today that I passed the CNU Accreditation exam, and I’m now one of the first (the first?) CNU Accredited professionals in Houston.
CNU Accreditation is a new process that recognizes professional New Urbanists. Over time I expect its value will grow, for now the biggest impact is that large development projects interested in earning LEED-ND [...]
Metro and FTA disagree about cost of Light Rail
This, from the River Oaks Examiner, is pretty interesting…
Letters to the Metropolitan Transit Authority from the Federal Transit Administration place the baseline price of building both the North and Southeast light rail lines at almost $1.58 billion.
Based on the correspondence, dated Aug. 17, that would place the cost of the 11.84 miles of construction at [...]
Happy Thanksgiving
I’m a day early, but I wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving holiday!
I’m enjoying a short hiatus from writing, as it’s given me some time to catch up on life and save up a few worthwhile ideas for future blog posts. I’ve enjoyed the series on High-Speed Rail, and the many comments I received. [...]
Ares 1-X Launch Successful!
Check out this very cool video of NASA’s successful launch of the new Ares 1-X rocket. This is intended as the replacement system for the Space Shuttle. Congratulations to NASA today!
Changing Behavior through Fun
Sometimes humor is the best way to change behavior. At a particular subway station in Sweden everyone rode the escalator up, virtually no one chose the stairs. Well, stairs are clearly a little healthier since they require more effort to walk up… so is there something that we can do to encourage people to make the healthy choice? See for yourself:
Administrative Note
You’ll notice a minor tweak on the site today, posts are now able to have subtitles as well as titles. This isn’t a huge thing, but I hope it helps keep the long series with sub-series that I’m currently working on more organized.
I’m trying to make time for several other back-end tweaks to improve the [...]
Crazy Flooding in Atlanta
The photo above is from my Aunt’s neighborhood, where the road into their subdivision has collapsed. She says they’ve got sink-holes and burst drains like this all over the city. Nobody in their neighborhood has been able to get to work in the last few days.
CNU-Houston Meeting this Thursday
CNU-Houston is having a special meeting this Thursday to celebrate the next step in their chapter formation process. For more details, or to learn more about CNU, check out the CNU website at http://www.cnu-houston.org.
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