John Culberson blocking metro rail funding

[da1]

Originally Posted by bigtexxx Chandigarh? Great example of a world class city if that's your vision for Houston, then I don't know what to tell you.

I could pick a picture of 3rd ward and do the same thing. You look worse and worse by each post you make.

[da1]

Originally Posted by bigtexxx 1. not true http://www.planetizen.com/node/25322 2. not relevant to Houston as it stands in 2012

Vancouver proper doesn't have freeways, way to post a link that went against your own argument.

[mfastx]

Originally Posted by bigtexxx 1. not true http://www.planetizen.com/node/25322 2. not relevant to Houston as it stands in 2012

Question: have you been to Vancouver? Try looking at a simple satellite image of the area. There is one freeway running through the far eastern part of the city.

That article you posted actually talks about the benefits of not having freeways through the city, lol I'm assuming you didn't even read it?

[Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by da1 I could pick a picture of 3rd ward and do the same thing. You look worse and worse by each post you make.

Nothing in the 3rd ward looks anything close to that bad racist.

[bigtexxx]

Originally Posted by CaseyH Nothing in the 3rd ward looks anything close to that bad racist.

exactly -- I thought his post was toeing the racist line, but I didn't want to say anything...

[DonnyMost]

These stupid tangents make this thread hard to read. Ignore the trolls and let the adults talk please.

Originally Posted by Dubious Donny, I read the quote about Gessner and I-10 in the Chronicle somewhere, I just can't find it. And we did just increase the capacity of 59 and 10 to where they work pretty well. They will be even better when technology breaks people of the' in at 9 and out at 5' rut.

I'm not counting on technology to kill traffic problems (unless we invent a flying car or teleportation), and alleviating highway level traffic was never a chief focus of the rail system anyway. Sure it will help, but the surface level streets are what will see the most impact. When it comes to alleviating highway traffic, rail is a preventative measure for the future, as you encourage population growth inside the city that is connecting to those transit lines, you end up removing future cars off the highways that otherwise would've been coming in from Sugarland and bottlenecking up 59.

Originally Posted by Dubious I've got a lot of years in observing change and as much as things seem to change they don't really make really fundamental change. Houston is what it is, it's not going to ever be a walkable high density city, for all the reasons I've listed but primarily because the politics have already been decided. We tossed the non-conflicting monorail plan ( I supported), we paved the Hardy, Westpark and Katy R.O.W.s, we elected a congressman on the promise to build I-10. The people who would have been served by the Richmond line revolted against it. At every turn since 1940 we have chosen (our elected leaders have chosen) this path. It's different but it's doable; it gives the people what they wanted.

I'm not sure why everybody is acting like rail and highways are competing factions. They're both important and necessary to an effective infrastructure that serve different needs to different people. Houston's demographics and needs are changing, it may never be wholly "walkable", but connecting the walkable, geographically aligned neighborhoods via rail is an inevitability. Culberson has been the last domino to fall on this for a long time now.

[Dubious]

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[Dubious]

Damit, We're Space City, not streetcar town.





Or how about this from the Galleria to Downtown, over the trees.

[bullardfan]

Originally Posted by bigtexxx lol I dominate your thoughts and control your emotions that's what happens when you can't argue toe-to-toe with the big boys

You have not come back with any sort of real argument whatsoever.
all you have done is purposely misinterpret posts to fit your anti-rail agenda and/or ignore any posts that you can't argue against at all.

you don't dominate anything except your fight against logic.

[da1]

Originally Posted by bigtexxx exactly -- I thought his post was toeing the racist line, but I didn't want to say anything...

Says the guy who calls Trayvon Martin "The black."

[Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by da1 Says the guy who calls Trayvon Martin "The black."

Your the one who sees a predominantly black neighborhood and likens it to a Indian slum with no electricity, running water and twigs for a roof. Tex specifically said he wasn't gonna bring race into it.

[da1]

Originally Posted by CaseyH Your the one who sees a predominantly black neighborhood and likens it to a Indian slum with no electricity, running water and twigs for a roof. Tex specifically said he wasn't gonna bring race into it.

What I said had NOTHING to do with race. I am just saying there are places of urban blight everywhere, Texx is a buffoon for thinking that is an accurate representation of that city. If I go around and take pictures of homeless people under bridges in Houston, would that be accurate as a whole? Stop race baiting.

[Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by da1 What I said had NOTHING to do with race. I am just saying there are places of urban blight everywhere, Texx is a buffoon for thinking that is an accurate representation of that city. If I go around and take pictures of homeless people under bridges in Houston, would that be accurate as a whole? Stop race baiting.

In that case I'd suggest you not say third ward in the future dude. I mean I doubt anyone sees this

in the third ward. Cause if you do, you are probably looking through some racist ass goggles.