Houstonist had no idea what the Adopt-a-Stop program was until it was mentioned in one of our favorite Chronicle features, Move It!, on Monday. It works much like adopting a block or a mile on the highway, but Adopt-a-Stop works to keep neighborhood Metro bus stops looking spiffy. According to Metro, there are about 12,000 bus stops scattered throughout the city, and keeping them clean and graffiti-free is quite a task.
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Rad Sallee's "Move It!" column in the Chron this week has a tip that will come in handy someday — uh, maybe. We're talking about a question Sallee got from a reader concerning whether you're supposed to pull out into an intersection when you're waiting to make a left turn. You know the situation: In heavy traffic, when you're waiting to make an unprotected left, you pull about halfway into the intersection and make the...
The more things change, the more they stay the same and then almost change again. In his "Move It!" column, the Chron's Rad Sallee looks at a failed 1983 plan for a southwestern rail transit line, nothing that the Metro of 20 years ago ruled out street-level light rail as a transit mode and Richmond Avenue as a route because of "severe traffic disruption on major cross streets and ... relatively low speed." It's theoretically...
Houstonist was interested in a section of Rad Sallee's "Move It!" column in the Chron yesterday that dealt with the new Spur 527 — specifically, the entrance ramp to the southbound spur from Milam between Alabama and Richmond. We were excited when the new lanes of the spur opened last week, but one of the first things we noticed was that the barrier wall on the side of the freeway is much higher than before,...
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