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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024 Highlights

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Happy New Year! Time for our annual round-up of the best posts of 2024, with this year featuring as many (or more!) great posts from Oscar a...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

HCTRA Part 2: spiraling debt and outrageous costs

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Another excellent followup investigative guest post by Houston Freeways author  Oscar Slotboom . Be warned: this will make you nauseou...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

HCTRA: from model agency to delay, divert and do nearly nothing

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This week we have one of Oscar Slotboom's best guest posts to date, although sadly with bad news about the state of HCTRA, which ...
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Friday, November 15, 2024

Redeveloping the old Days Inn downtown, METRO needs to learn from Denver's failures, Texas' boom, and more

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A few smaller items this week... The Chronicle examines what's up with the abandoned shell of the old Days Inn high rise hotel downtown ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A simple solution to help Houston traffic, our tax-debt-spend problem, HSR bankrupted Japan, Austin builds towards affordability, METRO comedy!

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Just a few small items this week: Charles Blain in City Journal: Saddled With Taxes and Debt - Houston-area leadership is losing touch with...
Friday, September 27, 2024

The Best Plan for Housing Is to Plan Less - NYT

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I've had this excellent NYT opinion piece  queued up to share for a while, because it essentially argues for adopting the Houston approa...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Next big moonshot for Houston? TX will pass CA and HTX will pass LA, auto vs. transit job access and realism

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 A few smaller misc items this week: Texas will surpass California , and both DFW and Houston will pass LA in population over the next 40 y...
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Saturday, September 07, 2024

METRO+DART Ridership Update: summer slump and Beryl erase spring gains

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This week we have another great analytical guest post from Oscar Slotboom . Dallas DART's extensive and expensive light rail str...