In light of Anne Linehan’s post on METRO’s latest “service improvements” we thought we’d share a few things that we’re contemplating for the little blog. First, we’re considering a new blog category and separate forum
The Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee checks in on the area’s mobility planning process: Transportation planning is both hugely important and often mind-numbing. Houston, for example, has a Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan (MTFP), an Urban Corridors
A reader passes along a two-reporter story from the Dallas Morning News on our northern neighbor’s efforts to justify municipal government getting into the hotel business. The headline pretty much suggests this isn’t exactly going
METRO has posted a new listing of service changes effective June 1st — today! Just because METRO no longer calls them “service improvements” doesn’t mean we can’t continue to relive METRO’s PR department’s glory days,
The Chronicle‘s Dai Huynh profiles a Houston man who makes a habit of being on inaugural Continental Airlines flights: Circling the Earth by plane would add 25,000 miles to your frequent flier account. Imagine doing
This city council agenda item’s wording is enough to make one’s eyes glaze over: 29. ORDINANCE finding and determining that public convenience and necessity no longer require the continued use (1) as public streets of
Do you think METRO saw this coming? For the second time in three weeks, a city council committee on Friday raised numerous questions and objections to an agreement that would give the Metropolitan Transit Authority
Readers in the Galleria area might want to plan to avoid the intersection of Richmond/Chimney Rock in the immediate future. I just got hung up in a big mess of a bottleneck that turned a
KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt checked in tonight with an update on HPD’s underreporting of murders in recent years. Interestingly, the department has quietly reclassified some 16 incidents as murders since Greenblatt started reporting on the issue.
Local media have recently reported on affluent residents of the Rivercrest subdivision who have conveniently (and rapidly!) secured public works improvements to cut down on the riff-raff blowing down their streets. Mayor White, predictably, denies