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quick directions please....austin to houston

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by gr8-1, Jul 27, 2003.

  1. gr8-1

    gr8-1 Member

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    I hate mapquest. 45th and guadalupe in Austin to Chinatown in Houston. mapquest said 183s to I-10? Do I have to pay a toll on the sam houston tollway?

    Is there a quicker way?

    Thank you.
     
  2. nycrocket

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    Take 183 to 71.

    71 South to I-10.

    I-10 East until you get to Houston.

    I-10 will take you directly to downtown Houston.
     
  3. gr8-1

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    thank you
     
  4. Faos

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    Not to pile on, but please don't tell me you just asked if you had to pay a toll on the tollway. :)
     
  5. Nutcracker

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    he asked for directions to chinatown, not downtown. :eek: i hope he knows where he is going once he gets to houston.
     
  6. DVauthrin

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    To chinatown:

    http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll

    Basically the guy who said to find 71 and then hit 1-10, and go downtown is right.

    However, these directions give you an alternate route and they also give you the side streets to look for if nothing else.
     
  7. bigtexxx

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    Yeah but he probably doesn't mean the old chinatown downtown. Probably means the one on Bellaire near the Beltway.
     
  8. gr8-1

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    Actually took 290 to 610 to 59. Took about 2 hours and 15 minutes.
     
  9. SLA

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    BTW...isn't our Chinatown great?!?

    It's probably the 5th or 6th biggest Chinatown out there...and we have 2 of them! And our new one is nice and big...not dirty and crowded like some. It is in the worst crime area in the Houston-Sugar Land Metropolitan Area though...

    Houston is so diverse!
     
  10. Mango

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    How did you arrive at that?

    Are you going on crime stats from the <i>Westside</i> Patrol Division?

    This is how I define Chinatown in SW Houston:

    Harwin - Alief Clodine as the northern edge
    Beechnut as the southern " "
    Eldridge as the western " "
    Fondren as the eastern " "

    Some may wish to extend the northern and/or southern edges to Westpark and Bissonnet respectively. Others may wish to bring the western edge in a bit to perhaps Synott or even Dairy-Ashford.

    There are several police beats that cover that area, but there isn't one that is devoted exclusively to Chinatown in SW Houston.

    <a HREF="http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/departme/police/westside.htm">Westside Patrol Division</a>
     

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