Intermodality

The Chronicle reports (2nd article here) that Cintra, the private company chosen by the state to develop a toll road from Laredo to Dallas, also wants to add a rail line:

In a letter Wednesday to Texas Transportation Commission Chairman Ric Williamson, Cintra Zachry proposed “a new grade-separated freight railway from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to […]

The photo above shows a scarce urban resource: an unused corridor. This is the old Missouri-Kansas-Texas line, here crossing under I-45 and over White Oak Bayou at UH Downtown. When the line became redundant as a result of railroad mergers, TXDOT bought the line to use as additional right-of-way for expanding the Katy Freeway. But […]

On my way home yesterdayI drove on the newly opened inbound lanes of 59 and the 527 spur for the first time. The portable dot matrix sign you see above was flashing “WELCOME BACK.” The Chronicle had coverage yesterday and today.

Worth noting:

This project is considerably ahead of schedule. The spur was scheduled to reopen this […]

METRO’s newest rapid transit project is nearing completion.

This past weekend, the 59 reconstruction between Main and Shepherd took a major step forward as southbound traffic was shifted onto the finished southbound lanes — on the right of the picture above. On the left, northbound traffic remains confined to three lanes for now, but the finished […]

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Interesting items:

Westheimer is off the table as an alignment for the westernmost section of the Universities line. That was one of the three options I discussed two days ago, leaving Richmond through Afton Oaks and Westpark. Interestingly, Westheimer first became […]

It’s tempting to think of the choice of an alignment for the Universities Line as a multiple choice question: (a) Richmond (b) Westpark. But it’s really more of an essay question, and the answer may be a little of both.

You’ll have a hard time convincing me that the right place for rail in Greenway Plaza […]