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Three More Links in the Grand Parkway Are Now Ready To Roll
Yesterday the Texas Transportation Commission rubber-stamped TxDOT’s selection of a developer for 3 additional segments of the Grand Parkway — if you count FM1960 and Hwy. 6, Houston’s fourth ring...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Ring Road Name Inflation Challenge
“Only problem is that with a huge name like Grand Parkway, what will we call the next, even bigger loop?” [Frank, commenting on Three More Links in the Grand Parkway Are Now Ready To Roll] … Read More
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Grand Parkway Will Pile on the Dead
An agreement between TxDOT, the Harris County Historical Commission, and 5 Native American tribes over what to do with the prehistoric human remains unearthed in the prairie highway’s path will allow...
View ArticleComment of the Day: Also, Paving Over Their Ancestors
“Yes we do know what people were doing 10,000 years ago. Basically it’s the same thing we are doing today. Making and raising children, trying to feed our family, and working to have safety, shelter,...
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The Grand Parkway Ancient Burial Site, Up Close and Personal
Last month, Cite magazine editor Raj Mankad hiked 8 miles through the Katy Prairie to see the prehistoric human remains found during the construction of Grand Parkway’s Segment E for himself. He...
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TxDOT Presents Toll Lanes Down the Middle of 288
Note: A TxDOT spokesperson has confirmed that the total cost of the project is $1.3 billion. Story updated below. This map shows where commuters would get in and out of the toll lanes that TxDOT says...
View ArticleComment of the Day: The Pay Way
“ALL new highways should be toll roads. Every last one of them. If you use it, you pay for it. If you don’t use it, no harm to you. You don’t HAVE to drive it. YOU decide by your actions if you wish to...
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Grand Parkway Progression a Part of Master-Planned Valley Ranch Master Plan
Next month, reports Real Estate Bisnow’s Catie Dixon, construction’s supposed to start on 3 more segments of the Grand Parkway: That’s why F1, F2, and G on the map here are colored in that cautionary...
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What Houston’s New Phillips 66 Global HQ Might Look Like
This rendering appears to show the new Phillips 66 global headquarters planned to go up in Westchase. Back in September, the ConocoPhillips offshoot announced it would be building something on the...
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New I-45 Billboard Goes Up, Just in Time to Save the Astrodome?
The reader who sends this photo from this morning’s commute — on I-45 North near Canino — says it appears workers were “just putting up” this “Save the Dome” sign from OurAstrodome.org on the...
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Comment of the Day: More Loops for Houston
Houston loops, 2113: 1.) 610. 2.) Beltway 8. 3.) 1960/Highway 6. 4.) Grand Parkway. 5.) Uber loop: Angelton to Rosenberg to Fulshear to Katy/Brookshire to Waller to Magnolia to Conroe to Cleveland to...
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How To Travel More Than 35 Times Around Houston’s Inner Loop In Style, This...
The Art Guys say their van will be doing about 60 mph around the 38-mile-circumference of the 610 Loop this weekend, which means that in 12 hours of continuous driving, they should make something shy...
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Where The Action Is, in and Around Houston
From Dug Begley’s report on next weekend’s dual openings of the North Line light-rail extension and the Hempstead-to-Katy Segment E of the Grand Parkway: “[Judge] Emmett frequently notes that about...
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Katy Prairie Segment of the Grand Parkway Doesn’t Even Open Until This...
How long will it take a Katy worker to zoom past acres of newly paved prairie, over a now-uprooted prehistoric burial ground, and under EZ Tag toll sensors on a lunchtime jaunt to the outlet mall in...
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Comment of the Day: Houston’s Main Streets of Distraction
“The fact that its not facing the freeway is progress. For too long, Houston has used its freeways as a super fast main street. One of the reasons why the traffic is so bad in this area is that people...
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Another Chunk of the Grand Parkway Is Open
The portion of the newly tolled Grand Parkway between U.S. 59 and US 90A (and a little further north, to FM 1464) quietly opened to traffic last Thursday. Segment D of the third or fourth ring road...
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A Slight Traffic Delay on the Path To Building Houston’s Fifth Ring Road
There’s the 610 Loop, Beltway 8, Highway 6 and FM 1960, and the Grand Parkway. What will come next in the grand sequence of giant highways encircling Houston? Why that might be Highway 36A, also dubbed...
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Comment of the Day: Top Houston Punch Lines
“If an out-of-towner wanted to make fun of Houston, there are a multitude of easier targets than the Rothko Chapel. Just the drive in from the airport on I-45 will give any out-of-towner loads of...
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TxDOT Likely To Cut Funding for West Loop Bus Lanes, Ship Money South
In a move that could spell doom for the Post Oak Bus Rapid Transit project, TxDOT’s planning director said Thursday that his agency is now recommending it ax a $25 million commitment to expanding...
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Houston’s Inner Loop Getting Ready for Interstate 69
Snickers and awkward guffaws are likely to be heard all the way from the Northside to Afton Oaks next week, once state transportation officials sign off on the addition of another name to the...
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