Discouraging panhandling, airport wag brigade, 6-figure incomes, Grand Parkway size, TAMU TMC growth, and more
Big Idea of the Week before getting to our smaller items: I think the City needs to hang signs over major panhandler intersections saying:"Please give to charity, not panhandling."I think this could make a major positive improvement in the city over time, both at the intersections and among the panhandling population which would have to go to charities with real comprehensive services rather than just unsafely collecting dollars in the middle of busy roadways from intimidated motorists and doing who-knows-what with it.
One key: making sure to hang them high up near the traffic lights. If they're down low, the panhandlers will either tear them down or deface them.
Moving on to this week's items:
- Houston has the 9th-most six-figure jobs in the country, 8th if you combine San Francisco and San Jose. We're the 5th-largest metro, so we're punching a little below our weight, with Boston, Seattle, SF+SJ, and DC pushing us down. On the plus side, we still edge out DFW even though they're a bigger metro than us.
- Super cool: Texas A&M to Build $550 Million Project at TMC
- New Geography: The limits of being "near transit" for low-income workers
- This is pretty freaking cool: See how big the Grand Parkway is compared to other land formations. "Grand" is an appropriate label. Almost all of London, Paris, Chicago, DFW, Mexico City, Rhode Island, DC-Baltimore, or the SF Bay Area - among others - would fit inside! Towards the end, they compare Texas to other landmasses. Spoiler alert: it's big.
- Man, I hope these babies are cruising Houston streets soon: GM and Honda unveil self-driving car with no steering wheel or pedals. Cool video.
Labels: affordable proximity, autonomous vehicles, aviation, economy, homelessness, quality of place, rankings, TMC, transit
posted by Tory Gattis @ 3:52 PM
7 Comments:
The six figure league table doesn't adjust for Cost of Living so it's hardly a valid comparison.
Good point!
No on the Wag Brigade. What a bunch of wimps.
Hi Tory have you seen this story about the DOME? What do you think?
https://houston.innovationmap.com/frank-blackwood-of-lee-and-associates-on-astrodome-restoration-2645175616.html
Having a year round Oil Tech Exibits open to the public would be awesome for the Astrodome and will be able to pay for the air conditioning renovation.
The HMNS science museum already has done a new absolutley top-notch oil tech exhibit.
And Mark, I don't think it would work for commodities exchange (even if they could somehow be lured to Houston). That stuff is all electronic at this point anyway.
Judge Emmett had it right: a giant events space, mostly used during OTC and Rodeo, but available for events year-round.
That's the most affordable strategy. Here's a more ambitious one that would require big money: http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.com/2012/03/ultimate-houston-strategy.html
What i meant was not a museum exhibit but a investor and trade fair it might cost too much but it would be cool. As an expansion of the OTC. The HMNS exibhit is cool though very nice museum.
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