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Old 03-04-2024, 09:02 PM
 
Location: Belton, Tx
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Yes. Which is what one of the first posts in this thread got wrong




Houston is a hubs and spoke model now as it comes to employment centers. Woodlands/far north Harris county, TMC, Energy Corrudor, Sugar Land, SE Houston, uptown. All separate employment centers. People in Sealey won’t commute to downtown but they may commute to EC. People in Montgommery won’t commute downtown but they may commute to Woodlands/Spring
Having all of those employment centers, it keeps the traffic from being worse. Could you imagine what rush hour would be like if TMC or downtown were the only job centers? Nightmare times 4.
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Old 03-05-2024, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Having all of those employment centers, it keeps the traffic from being worse. Could you imagine what rush hour would be like if TMC or downtown were the only job centers? Nightmare times 4.
Yes and no. Yes for the corridors leading directly to those centers, but some of the suburban commute corridors (like the Beltway) wouldn't be as bad, due to fewer folks commuting from suburb to suburb.

All that said, weekday am-pm commute trips are actually a minority of total traffic, so we don't want to overstate things. The Friday evening inbound traffic on the Katy Freeway starting at Katy Mills can be a nightmare, for example.
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Old 03-11-2024, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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Houston's growth has just about enveloped Conroe. Is Huntsville next?
The places that are more on the brink of being enveloped are Brookshire and Prairie View/Waller. There’s a lot of economic growth in addition to population growth there while Willis is at most a bedroom community for Conroe and surrounding areas.
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Old 03-11-2024, 11:09 AM
 
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Waller County is preparing for the growth. There is a few subdivisions popping up in the middle of the county like Lakeview Estates, which is over 1,000 acres.
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Old 03-11-2024, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Katy,Texas
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The places that are more on the brink of being enveloped are Brookshire and Prairie View/Waller. There’s a lot of economic growth in addition to population growth there while Willis is at most a bedroom community for Conroe and surrounding areas.
Added to this the area between Alvin, Manvel and Rosenberg and the respective suburbs of Friendswood, Pearland and Katy/Richmond is closing fast as well.
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Old 04-26-2024, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Houston/Austin, TX
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500 acre H E B distribution campus going up in Hampstead. A whole lot of industrial activity happening from Brookshire to Waller near the grand parkway
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Old 04-28-2024, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Belton, Tx
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500 acre H E B distribution campus going up in Hampstead. A whole lot of industrial activity happening from Brookshire to Waller near the grand parkway
With all of that new development occurring, Grand Parkway will have to be widened.
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Old 04-30-2024, 01:14 PM
 
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With all of that new development occurring, Grand Parkway will have to be widened.
Like every other Houston freeway, should have been built wider in the first place. It's not like they didn't know the west side was going to continue to grow.
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Old 04-30-2024, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Houston
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build it right the first time you cant award your buddies the 2nd contract to widen it
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Old 05-01-2024, 08:40 AM
 
Location: Houston
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Toll roads depend on toll revenue forecasts to determine how much concrete they can afford to pour. If the forecasts had modeled more traffic, there might have been more lanes.

Even with more lanes...look at I-45 in southern Montgomery County. There's what, 4-5 lanes in each direction? And there's discussion of widening it.
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