Posts Tagged ‘Grand Parkway’
Critical Vote for Harris County Tomorrow
From Citizens’ Transportation Coalition: US-290 commuters who want relief must head downtown Tuesday morning to demand alternatives to increased congestion. Harris County Commissioners’ agenda includes a public hearing on the 2010/11 – 2014/15 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP): 9:00 am Consideration of capital improvements for Harris County, Harris County Flood Control District, Port of Houston Authority of Harris [...]
New Mobility Northwest
Last month we had a great discussion about the Grand Parkway. I’ve been thinking about it a lot since then, and I decided that I wanted to make a little bit more elaborate case for an alternate. Prior to revising the Grand Parkway, I wanted to take some time to write about some useful terminology [...]
Grand Parkway
Ok, I couldn’t help myself. There’s been loads of hoopla surrounding the Grand Parkway recently. The most interesting piece, I think, is that the Sierra Club has now sued TxDOT to stop the Grand Parkway. Now, most of the environmental issue with the Grand Parkway is that it tears right through the middle of a [...]
Briefly
I-10 is a joke. I passed 3 speed traps today driving outbound on I-10 from Taylor St. to Campbell. That’s 10 miles. Meanwhile the inbound lanes were already moving at a snail’s pace at 7:30 in the morning. Congrats Houston! Way to spend 3 billion dollars! By the way, do you think we could learn [...]
Grand Parkway Bonanza
First off, new homes being built in the path of the proposed Grand Parkway… (Wrap up from Kuffner) Basically, builders and developers are out there doing their thing right in the way of the proposed Grand Parkway alignment. This begs the question: What the hell is Harris County or the City of Houston doing issuing [...]