Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take...
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Southern areas of Houston and Harris County had up to 4 inches of rain this afternoon as a line of strong storms moved through the area
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The Real Men of Genius guys have been wildly popular since 2000. In this clip from Fox 26 morning show, they rant about the traffic in Houston. While we don't recommend having a bud light while driving, we can relate to congestion on Houston streets (Katy Freeway over the past weekend comes to mind)....
This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the...
Good morning, Houston. Does all this rain make you feel like crap? There may be a medical reason: It's called non-allergic rhinitis, and it can be triggered by changes in air pressure — you know, the kind that accompany bad weather. Rhinitis symptoms are a lot like those that come with allergies: congestion, sinus pressure and post-nasal drip. Decongestants, saline washes and nasal sprays can help, but the only thing that'll really make you...
The unpopular proposal to double tolls on the Westpark Tollway during rush hour is officially dead: Harris County commissioners officially scrapped the plan Tuesday, meaning the price of the county's toll roads will remain the same — or won't, actually, given that a 25-cent increase on all toll transactions will still take effect on Sept. 3. The Westpark proposal, as we're sure you remember, called for toll transactions to double for inbound traffic between 6...
Well, the peak pricing proposal for the Westpark Tollway died more quickly than we expected: On Thursday, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said the county commissioners will cancel the proposed doubling of Westpark tolls at rush hour, a decision that "was certainly influenced by the public's reaction." Under the proposal, transactions along the Westpark would have doubled from $1.25 (after a general 25-cent increase across the entire county toll road system to $2.50 from 6...
So all day yesterday, we heard people complaining about about the Harris County commissioners' proposal to raise the cost of using the county toll road system — and we even added our two cents. But is the rate increase a done deal? No, according to KHOU, which reports that commissioners approved a "toll-setting policy" on Tuesday, with the actual toll increase decision still to come in another vote. Or yes, according to KTRK, which says...
With the official beginning of the 2007 hurricane season a little more than a week away, Harris County officials have released a new evacuation plan based on ZIP codes. Residents of coastal and low-lying areas can determine whether they're in evacuation zones using a map of the area that groups ZIP codes into four zones based on threat, from the coast up through Brazoria and Galveston counties to Houston's East End, Channelview, Baytown and...
For Houstonist, the municipal courthouse at 1400 Lubbock is pretty close to our vision of hell. But does it have to be? No, court officials say — and the way to improve things could be as easy as leaving arraignment dates off tickets for parking, traffic and other minor violations. Seriously.
This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making...
With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay...
Issues with the development - dear to many Houstonians - is whether or not there will be adequate parking and increased traffic congestion. Lamesa has ensured that there will be public parking included in the plans, and that there is enough parking planned for the development itself. Area resident Bill Faloon though, is still worried. He said that the developers repeatedly have said they'll build with or without seizing Bolsover St., and also that he hasn't heard of any tenants signing on yet - that means there isn't an accurate way to assess true parking needs and traffic flow. Andy Icken, the city's Deputy Director of Public Works, seems to feel differently:
"Not to say the traffic in Rice Village isn't a difficult situation for people to navigate," but, he said, Sonoma and the closing of Bolsover should not make it worse.more ›
Some news for those of you who commute to and from Brazoria County regularly: TxDOT is considering building 26 miles of toll lanes along Highway 288. The proposal is for two toll lanes in each direction from Highway 59 to the South Loop, three lanes each way from the Loop to the Beltway, and two lanes in each direction from there to County Road 60 near Iowa Colony. There's room: When the South Freeway...
"Galveston, oh Galveston, I can see your sea cans shining." In a move that may result in the Island becoming a big player in the containerized cargo business (or "sea cans", as Houstonist likes to call them), the Port of Houston Authority voted to return control of the Pier 10 container terminal to Galveston managers. The Port of Galveston and Galveston City Council will meet Thursday to discuss the impact of this move on public...
It's no secret to anyone who uses local toll roads — even occasionally — that they can get just as crowded and backed up as the non-toll freeways. It's a problem that seems to have no easy situation: build more roads, widen the existing ones, create a useful mass transit network (God forbid) or ... raise tolls. It's that last option that Harris County officials are spending $250,000 to study.
So if you live south of Houston, you might want to consider using one of your sick days today — or maybe leaving for work really early: Traffic is still backed up for miles because of a 12-car pileup on northbound Highway 288. The good news is that the wrecked vehicles have been cleared; the bad news is that traffic watchers don't expect the congestion to clear up until after rush hour is over. The...
After about five years of work, the $344 million reconstruction of the West Loop is finally finished — and though it's quite a bit better than it used to be, it's still a freeway. That means traffic still backs up, there's still noise, hundreds of cars still spew pollution and nearby neighborhoods still have a dozen lanes of concrete at their back doors. Hey, that's not good, right? Well, maybe not, some people say. The...
Finally, the answer to why it's so hard to find on-street parking downtown: It's those pesky handicapped people taking up all the spaces! Well, you can bet the city won't let that continue much longer: Today, the parking commission is talking about potenial changes for disabled parkers, including placing a limit on the amount of time they can park at meters. As it stands now, people with handicap tags or license plates may park at any working meter for free for as long as they like, regardless of posted time limits. Could that be causing congestion at downtown meters?
Mayor Bill White used statistics about freeway accidents Tuesday as evidence that the Safe Clear program is working. Analysis of traffic data by officials at Rice University and the Texas Transportation Institute found freeway crashes in Houston dropped to 13,137 in 2005 from an average of 14,670 in 2003 and 2004. White also attributed a drop in freeway congestion to the mandatory towing program, for which the city pays about $600,000 of the $3 million...
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