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Mostly from here http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/03/can-urban-highways-be-fixed/1399/
Some cities have elected not to rebuild freeways when they reach the age where costly repairs are required but, instead, to replace them with...
This is the point I try to convey to people, particularly this board. American highways were never intended to carry “urban commuters”. They were...
Writing on his blog Original Green, my friend Steve Mouzon examined property values along an eleven-block stretch of a street that runs...
During the first decade of Interstate highway construction, 335,000 homes were razed, forcing families to look elsewhere for housing ... In...
The irony of all this is the interstate system ended up destroying the urban landscape in a similar fashion that the WWII bombers did to the...
But Eisenhower never intended that the Interstates be built through densely populated cities. A memorandum of a 1960 meeting in the Oval Office,...
Eisenhower did not want freeways to go through cities But Eisenhower never intended that the Interstates be built through densely populated...
Politicians, and one neighborhood. In 2003 voters passed a referndum for 50+ miles of light rail but Afton Oaks, Tom Delay, John Culberson were...
Christmas will come early - but just barely - for riders looking forward to Metro's North Line light rail extension. Better-than-expected...
Southwest lobbied against high speed rail between houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
What about the people that live in those areas? They deserve service too, and ironically are getting residential rail service before the rest of...
I think as long as the system in the city gets built in coordination with the ones to the burbs it would work out. If it's just going out to the...
Yea but without university line there's no connection to Reliant or downtown except 81 or 82 bus.
Wow just wow
If they started construction relatively soon the university and uptown lines could be built in time.
A true transit system would serve a significant portion of the population.
Typical racist response from many Houstonians. BTW they could already do this on buses already.
Hoping you're not serious.
Does the Super Bowl coming houston finally takes its transit infrastructure seriously and build the long forgotten university and uptown lines?...
