Tag Archives: I-10

Metro slows its roll on system improvements

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Charles Kuffner

Not a surprise. Houston-area transit officials will wait out a little more of the coronavirus crisis before soliciting bids on five of the first projects in their $7 billion construction bonanza for bus and rail upgrades. “Moving this by a … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged BRT, buses, Carrin Patman, construction, coronavirus, Election 2019, Harrisburg line, Houston, I-10, I-45, light rail, Metro, Southeast line, Uptown line | 2 Comments

A better way to do I-45

Posted on February 4, 2020 by Charles Kuffner

From Michael Skelley on Facebook: Here’s a new vision for I-45. -saves money -no displacement in low income areas -no destruction of White Oak Bayou -prevents TxDOT vandalization of EaDo -downtown amenities if we want to fund those ourselves This … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged Beltway 8, construction, downtown, EaDo, Houston, I-10, I-45, I-610, Mike Skelly, Texas, TxDOT, urbanism, US59, White Oak Bayou | 5 Comments

Metro referendum is set

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Charles Kuffner

Here we go. Metropolitan Transit Authority board members voted Tuesday to ask voters in November for permission to borrow up to $3.5 billion, without raising taxes. The money would cover the first phase of what local leaders expect to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Election 2019, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged Bill King, BRT, buses, Carrin Patman, commuter rail, Election 2019, Federal Transit Administration, Fort Bend County, Gulf Coast Rail District, Harrisburg line, high speed rail, Hobby Airport, Houston, HOV, I-10, I-45, light rail, Main Street line, Mayor, Metro, Northwest Transit Center, Southeast line, Sylvester Turner, Texas Central High-Speed Railway, Tony Buzbee, University line, US290, US59, US90A | 4 Comments

What if we didn’t expand I-45?

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Charles Kuffner

It’s an awful lot of money that comes with a ton of negative effects and which, if the I-10 expansion is any guide, will have short-lived positive effects. So maybe we should just, like, not do it? A massive remake … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged buses, commuter rail, construction, driverless cars, Hobby Airport, Houston, I-10, I-45, light rail, Main Street line, Metro, sidewalks, Southeast line, Texas, traffic, TxDOT, US90A | 9 Comments

Still filled with dread about I-45

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Charles Kuffner

Anyone got a paper bag I can breathe into? Strip away the enormity of rebuilding Interstate 45 and the promise of speedier trips along downtown Houston freeways, and two questions about the once-in-a-generation project remain: How many negative effects are … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, flooding, Houston, I-10, I-45, Independence Heights, LINK Houston, Make I-45 Better Coalition, Mike Skelly, Pierce Elevated, Texas, traffic, TxDOT | 12 Comments

Buc-ee’s comes to Alabama

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Charles Kuffner

Tomorrow, the world. Texas road stop institution Buc-ee’s has opened a store in Alabama, its first location outside the Lone Star State. Despite chilly weather, more than 100 people were lined up outside the Baldwin County store when it opened … Continue reading →

Posted in Bidness | Tagged Alabama, Buc-ee's, Florida, I-10, lawsuit, Louisiana, Texas | 2 Comments

Speed kills

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Charles Kuffner

Good long read from the Chron about our dangerous roads and highways. There’s too much to cover here, so I just want to focus on the why we all speed so much. Houston drivers likely speed, at least in part, … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged accidents, Houston, HPD, I-10, NTSB, speed limits, traffic | 5 Comments

“We (Heart) Houston” someplace else

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Charles Kuffner

Your favorite Instagram spot is moving to a new location. The “We Love Houston” sign you’ve seen either near I-10 or in Instagram selfies is on the move. Artist and die-hard Houstonian David Adickes told Chron.com in previous interviews that … Continue reading →

Posted in Elsewhere in Houston | Tagged 8th Wonder Brewing, David Adickes, Houston, I-10 | Comments Off

We could be getting to the end of 290 construction

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Charles Kuffner

By the end of the year. We think. Most major construction along the main lanes of U.S. 290 will end in 2018. Every new wide lane open. Every bridge built. Eleven lanes, including a reversible HOV lane, from Loop 610 … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, Harris County, HCTRA, Houston, I-10, I-610, traffic, TxDOT, US290 | Comments Off

Lamenting the lost rail opportunity

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

What could have been. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett’s speech Tuesday may have included jabs at state lawmakers, but it was a hit with transit advocates for a single line. “We cannot go back in time and undo some poor … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged buses, commuter rail, Ed Emmett, Harris County, HCTRA, Houston, I-10, John Culberson, light rail, Metro | 1 Comment

We will never stop widening our highways

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

Eventually, everything will be used for extra highway capacity. For people in western Harris and Fort Bend counties, now is the time to sit down with your toddler and ask what kind of Interstate 10 they’d like to have. Texas … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, Fort Bend County, I-10, Texas, TxDOT, Waller County | 2 Comments

The process for I-45

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

This time it’s different, more or less. The region’s largest looming highway project – a massive rebuild of Interstate 45 from the Sam Houston Tollway to downtown Houston – has a lot of people looking into the rear-view mirror, pressing … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, EaDo, Houston, I-10, I-45, TxDOT, US59 | 2 Comments

Try to wrap your mind around what I-45 will look like post-construction

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

Swamplot is here to help. HAVING TROUBLE SIFTING through some of the massive freeway jumbles in the latest plans for that major I-45 reroute between Downtown and the Beltway? This new video (making the rounds this month as TxDOT hosts a set of public meetings … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, Houston, I-10, I-45, I-610, US59 | 2 Comments

TxDOT public hearings on I-45 widening scheduled for May 9th & May 11th

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

From the inbox, from Jim Weston of the I-45 Coalition: The I-45 Project – Planning Stage is coming to an end! This next meeting is a HEARING – much different from the public meetings that TxDOT has been holding. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, Houston, I-10, I-45, I-610, TxDOT, US59 | Comments Off

TxDOT accelerates I-45 construction timeline

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Charles Kuffner

Gird your loins. For many long-suffering Houston drivers, a solution to the infuriating bottleneck on Interstate 45 through downtown is likely something they thought they wouldn’t live to see. More than a decade ago, a plan pitched to solve the … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged congestion, construction, downtown, Houston, I-10, I-45, I-610, Texas, traffic, TxDOT, US59 | 1 Comment

The Food Bank’s new home

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

I wish them all the best at their new address. The giant “End Hunger” message emblazoned in green on the Houston Food Bank building just north of downtown will soon go away as the charitable organization plans to start cooking … Continue reading →

Posted in Elsewhere in Houston | Tagged activism, Houston, Houston Food Bank, I-10, I-45 | Comments Off

Still waiting for a design for I-45

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

Pull up a chair and relax, this could take awhile. After 15 years of discussion, study and ideas for improvements ranging from enormous tunnels to a massive circulating freeway loop, planners are still at least six months from unveiling their … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, Election 2015, Houston, I-10, I-45, roundabouts, Sylvester Turner, TxDOT, US59 | Comments Off

Woodland Heights neighborhood traffic management plan

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

Of primary interest to the folks in my neighborhood only, though I will note that as Mayor Turner has made it easier for neighborhoods to request traffic-calming measures like speed cushions, this could be in your future as well. Tonight … Continue reading →

Posted in Elsewhere in Houston | Tagged Heights, Houston, I-10, I-45, speed bumps, traffic, traffic circles | 4 Comments

We Heart Houston…someplace else

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

A popular piece of public art is looking for a new location. It’s difficult not to smile while driving east on I-10 when passing the “We Heart Houston” sculpture near the Patterson St. exit in the Heights. Since 2013, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Elsewhere in Houston | Tagged David Adickes, Heights, Houston, Houston First, I-10 | Comments Off

What do you do with a problem like I-10?

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

From a conversation that Cite Editor Raj Mankad conducted with Andrew Albers and Ernesto Alfaro, who co-teach a survey of landscape architecture at the Rice School of Architecture. Mankad: Let’s come back to I-10 and the failure of its… Alfaro: … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged bicycles, BRT, buses, Energy Corridor District, Houston, I-10, light rail, pedestrians, sidewalks, traffic, urbanism | Comments Off

The Purple City plan for I-45

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

Check it out. Should a major freeway plan consider the needs of cyclists? Of transit riders? And if we’re going to tear down and reconstruct the entire downtown freeway network of the fourth-largest city in America, shouldn’t the final result … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged bicycles, BRT, commuter rail, construction, downtown, Election 2015, Houston, HOV lanes, I-10, I-45, light rail, MaX lanes, Midtown, SH288, TxDOT, urbanism, US59 | 2 Comments

Bu-ee’s to expand to Louisiana

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

The road to world domination leads east. The first Buc-ee’s outside Texas promises lagniappe, a little bonus, worthy of its Louisiana locale. “It’s going to look like what we build, and it’s going to feel like what we build,” co-owner … Continue reading →

Posted in Bidness | Tagged Baton Rouge, Buc-ee's, I-10, Louisiana, Texas | Comments Off

Turner wants to rethink transportation

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

I like the way he’s thinking. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, in less than a month on the job, has hit the streets at full speed. First he tackled potholes. Last week he tackled a state transportation department that’s spent the … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged Annise Parker, bicycles, buses, carpooling, Clark Martinson, construction, David Mincberg, Energy Corridor District, Harris County, HGAC, Houston, HOV lanes, I-10, I-45, light rail, Medical Center, Metro, pedestrians, SH288, sidewalks, Steve Radack, Sylvester Turner, Texas, Texas Sunset Advisory Committee, Texas Transportation Commission, The Lege, traffic, TxDOT | 2 Comments

The Katy Freeway cautionary tale on addressing congestion

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Charles Kuffner

Turns out that throwing more lanes at the Katy Freeway hasn’t helped all that much. Several years ago, the Katy Freeway in Houston was a major traffic bottleneck. It was so bad that in 2004 the American Highway Users Alliance … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, Houston, I-10, traffic congestion, TxDOT | 1 Comment

More on the Gulf Coast Rail District and the high speed rail line

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

The Chron reports on the story. Officials with the Gulf Coast Rail District, Houston-Galveston Area Council, Texas Department of Transportation and Metropolitan Transit Authority are involved in a comprehensive planning study of rail, generally in the Washington Avenue and Interstate … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged BRT, buses, commuter rail, Gulf Coast Rail District, HGAC, high speed rail, Houston, I-10, light rail, Maureen Crocker, Metro, Northwest Transit Center, TxDOT, Uptown line, US290 | Comments Off

Would the elevated 610 lanes really reduce congestion?

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

Color me skeptical. The elevated lane design, officials said, would allow traffic headed around the loop, and not into the Uptown area, to flow more freely. The lanes would have no access to exits for San Felipe, Westheimer, Richmond or … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, Galleria, Houston, I-10, I-610, toll roads, traffic congestion, TxDOT, US59 | 5 Comments

More rail options being studied

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

This caught my eye last week. The Gulf Coast Rail District says to make the system viable the train needs to come into downtown, or there has to be some sort of commuter rail option that would link downtown with … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged commuter rail, downtown, Gulf Coast Rail District, high speed rail, Houston, I-10, I-610, light rail, Maureen Crocker, US290 | 2 Comments

Here comes I-14

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

Don’t hold your breath waiting for it, however. This will take awhile. Texas is getting a new interstate, as part of a long-term federal transportation bill. Interstate 14 will be cobbled together mostly from U.S. 190 and other existing roads … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged Congress, Georgia, Gulf Coast Strategic Highway Coalition, highways, I-10, I-14, I-45, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas, US 190 | 2 Comments

Elevating the West Loop

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

I suppose this was inevitable. Planners on Dec. 10 are scheduled to detail plans for elevated managed lanes along Loop 610, from north of Interstate 10 to U.S. 59. Long constrained by the development and parkland along the freeway, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, Galleria, Houston, I-10, I-610, toll roads, traffic congestion, TxDOT, US59 | Comments Off

More on the high speed rail station in Houston

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

The Chron frets about it not being downtown. After hearing so much about how the proposed Central Texas Railway will help people commute between the central business districts of Houston and Dallas, it turns out that the Houston station will … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged BRT, construction, Dallas, downtown, high speed rail, Houston, I-10, I-610, John Culberson, light rail, Metro, Northwest Transit Center, Texas, Texas Central High-Speed Railway, University line, Uptown, Uptown line, US290, Washington Avenue | 1 Comment

Now how much would you pay to drive on that toll road?

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

How about ten bucks each way at peak times, beginning on May 30? Toll rates on the I-10 lanes, also known as the Katy Managed Lanes, will increase as officials seek to ease congestion by reducing use of the lanes … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged commuter rail, Harris County, HCTRA, HOV lanes, I-10, Texas, toll roads, traffic | Comments Off

More I-45 stuff

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

From The Highwayman: Public meetings meant to debut the massive plan to remake Houston’s downtown freeway system might be coming to an end, but it’s hardly the last chance residents will have to poke and prod the plans. Years of … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, Houston, I-10, I-45, Pierce Elevated, Pierce Skypark, SH288, traffic congestion, TxDOT, urbanism, US59 | Comments Off

TxDOT reveals its I-45 plan

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

Wow. Just, wow. A massive reconstruction of Interstate 45 through most of Houston would topple one of downtown’s most frustrating barriers – the Pierce Elevated – and move the freeway east of the central business district. That’s just one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, downtown, Election 2015, Houston, I-10, I-45, Mayor, Pierce Elevated, roundabouts, TxDOT, urbanism, US59 | 1 Comment

Widening I-10 to San Antonio

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Charles Kuffner

Like, all the way. The roughly 200-mile stretch of Interstate 10 from San Antonio to Houston could become more spacious, as the Texas Department of Transportation has raised the idea of adding a third lane to the highway in each … Continue reading →

Posted in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles | Tagged construction, Houston, I-10, San Antonio, Texas, TxDOT | 1 Comment

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