Results tagged “milamstreet”

If you were anywhere near downtown yesterday afternoon, chances are you noticed the scores of police cars and helicopters in the area — and if you checked out the news to see what was going on, chances are you found out it was a manhunt at the Exxon Mobil parking garage. The whole thing started at about 3 p.m. at UH-Downtown's Daly Street parking lot, where two men took a 1997 white Honda Civic at...

Good morning, Houston. If you live anywhere along the proposed University light rail line, here are a couple of chances to express your opinion on the choo-choo, pro or con: Metro will hold public meetings today and tomorrow. The first, from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, will be at the Renaissance Hotel at Greenway for folks along the west end of the line (between West Alabama, Main Street/Wheeler Station, Bissonnet and the Hillcroft Transit...

KHOU looks at Deathramp 527 today — the entrance ramp to the newly opened southbound Spur 527 from Milam Street. We talked about it earlier this week, and it seems enough people have complained about the ramp that TxDOT decided to step in and ... paint. "Some folks it appeared that you had to make an immediate merge. So we put the stripe there to improve that merge," [Spur 527 project engineer Quincy Allen] said....

You might have heard about the GoogleCenter of the universe, which Wired reported on Wednesday — that's the spot you find if you zoom as close as you can on the default Google map. Turns out it's a field near Coffeyville, Kansas. Naturally, the -ists jumped on the bandwagon by finding the GoogleCenters of their hometowns: Gothamist did it first, and then Bostonist, Chicagoist, DCist and Seattlest followed suit. So Houstonist is a little...