Intermodality

(courtesy Gulf Coast Institute)

In the Chronicle, Rad Sallee reported on one man’s quest to get the University Line on Westheimer instead of Richmond. Rad pointed out some of the problems with that idea, and so did Kuff. I feel no need to repeat all of that. In fact, I can sum up the advantage […]

Last weekend, people packed Upper Kirby’s meeting room to discuss the plan to rebuild Kirby from 59 to San Felipe. The crowd clearly felt that the current plan, which would reduce pedestrian space and require 175 trees to be moved or cut down, is not acceptable. But, as anyone who’s driven on Kirby knows, the […]

Last month, the Houston City Council voted to sell one block of Bolsover Street in the Rice Village to a private developer for the construction of Sonoma, a large mixed use project. I’m not sure that’s a bad thing — Bolsover was never a busy street, and the new project will make the Village more […]

Some do archaeology with a shovel and a trowel, but sometimes a bike can be as useful a tool. Consider a rainy Sunday in Neartown, finding the ghosts of transportation past.

At the corner of Fairview and Taft is a pair of two-story business buildings. They seem incongruous: Fairview is a narrow two-lane street; the major […]

In July, I looked at what makes a succesful commuter rail line. The Houston line that comes closest to the ideal is Houston to Galveston. Here’s what that might look like:

The yellow dots are major activity centers. The fact that there are so many on this line — at both ends — would do a […]