Posts Tagged ‘networks’
Peter Brown’s Traffic Plan
I had a chance to look over Peter Brown’s traffic plan this weekend. It’s a pretty good document, and while it doesn’t go into tremendous detail it does clearly spell out his approach to traffic management. Kuffner wrote a great summary last week, so for the general idea take a look at his post. I [...]
Good concepts for Washington Ave
From Swamplot today, landscape architecture students reinvision the Washington Ave. corridor. I wholeheartedly agree with the concept here. Making Washington Ave and Center Street a one-way pair would tremendously help with traffic in that corridor. Volumes are manageable today, but development potential is really limited by the capacity of Washington Ave. Plus, we’re not talking [...]
Commuters instead of circulators? Bad idea.
Houston Strategies today suggests abandoning three of the planned light-rail lines in order to free up funds for other projects. In place of those lines, he suggests improved bus service, and investment in the commuter rail and improvements to the commuter bus system. His suggestion is that we cannot afford the investment in the north [...]
Kirby Can Be Saved
Recently, Trees for Houston has been battling with the Upper Kirby TIRZ over widening Kirby drive. The argument tends to go something like this: TIRZ: “The lanes are too narrow, there’s all this development happening over here, and we’ve got to improve traffic flow.” TFH: “The trees are about the only thing making Kirby bearable [...]