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52 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Red Line is like the one semi decent transit option in this city and City Hall (Probably that Elmer Fudd fuck Whitmire) and Metro (cunt board chair Brock or super cunt board member Alexandria Mealer) have conspired to fuck it up...

Duh. Shitmire hates any transit  that isn’t cars 

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On 9/23/2025 at 8:51 AM, SydneyCarton said:

I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of surprised Greenspoint hasn't started to gentrify up already. The location in regards to downtown has to be pretty attractive, at some point there's going to be development. 

Waaaaay too many apartments. No grocery stores. It's gonna be a minute. Acres Homes is just getting started.

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3 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Waaaaay too many apartments. No grocery stores. It's gonna be a minute. Acres Homes is just getting started.

Every time I visit Houston, or even when I was living there and traveling up north to visit my folks, it just felt like Crosstimbers to Cypress Station up 45 is just an ungentrifiable area -

Car dealerships
Shitty apartments
No grocery stores (really just 2 Wal-Marts and a Fiesta) 
Strip malls and crappy motels
A huge dead mall 

Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Every time I visit Houston, or even when I was living there and traveling up north to visit my folks, it just felt like Crosstimbers to Cypress Station up 45 is just an ungentrifiable area -

Car dealerships
Shitty apartments
No grocery stores (really just 2 Wal-Marts and a Fiesta) 
Strip malls and crappy motels
A huge dead mall 

Along the freeway you can forget it... and until Spring and Aldine ISDs gets more business tax base, there won't be a lot of change. New stuff will get built on fields, but it will be new stuff near old stuff that isn't being updated. My mother lives on the western edge of greenspoint and my aunt lives in the heart of apartment land. It's going to suck for a while.

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33 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Along the freeway you can forget it... and until Spring and Aldine ISDs gets more business tax base, there won't be a lot of change. New stuff will get built on fields, but it will be new stuff near old stuff that isn't being updated. My mother lives on the western edge of greenspoint and my aunt lives in the heart of apartment land. It's going to suck for a while.

But at least the weather's nice.

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Houston Chronicle with some fascinating reporting on how violent offenders have been able to get out on bail so often

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/bail-bond-scheme-aable/

In 2021 and 2022, AABLE helped bail out a man accused of a triple murder in South Houston, and another accused of stuffing his wife’s dead body in a refrigerator. It backed bonds for road rage shooters and sexual assault suspects. Each man’s release, while legal, was contingent on the company risking hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the bonds.

In Houston, a city where easy bail is often pointed to as a reason for crime, AABLE’s business stood out. The company was scrutinized by activists, competitors and county regulators. Under pressure, AABLE folded in 2023.

But the closure wasn’t the end of the business’ troubles.

In July 2024, more than 50 people across Houston were arrested in an early morning operation organized by the FBI. The mass arrest was so large, authorities set up a temporary holding facility at NRG Arena.

AABLE’s owner, two employees and dozens of its customers were arrested and accused of conspiring to cheat the Harris County bail system. The government’s case accuses AABLE of falsifying paperwork to get approval for risky bonds.

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On 9/26/2025 at 8:53 AM, SydneyCarton said:

I dunno. Everyone I know who's moved or lived abroad for extended periods of time loves their healthcare. 

...and people abroad don't tend to make medical decisions due to fear of the massive cost

Posted
On 9/29/2025 at 3:30 PM, Captainant said:

Houston Chronicle with some fascinating reporting on how violent offenders have been able to get out on bail so often

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/bail-bond-scheme-aable/

In 2021 and 2022, AABLE helped bail out a man accused of a triple murder in South Houston, and another accused of stuffing his wife’s dead body in a refrigerator. It backed bonds for road rage shooters and sexual assault suspects. Each man’s release, while legal, was contingent on the company risking hundreds of thousands of dollars to back the bonds.

In Houston, a city where easy bail is often pointed to as a reason for crime, AABLE’s business stood out. The company was scrutinized by activists, competitors and county regulators. Under pressure, AABLE folded in 2023.

But the closure wasn’t the end of the business’ troubles.

In July 2024, more than 50 people across Houston were arrested in an early morning operation organized by the FBI. The mass arrest was so large, authorities set up a temporary holding facility at NRG Arena.

AABLE’s owner, two employees and dozens of its customers were arrested and accused of conspiring to cheat the Harris County bail system. The government’s case accuses AABLE of falsifying paperwork to get approval for risky bonds.

The real crime was holding them at NRG Arena. 

Posted
On 9/26/2025 at 10:47 AM, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Has become increasingly apparent over the last week that the city either revoked or greatly reduced the traffic signal priority given to METRORail trains, especially the Red Line through downtown and it is causing all kinds of problems for those of us who try to use transit to get to work without having to drive every day. Trains having to stop at every single intersection now causing really shit service and METRO even began by lying about it saying it was "mechanical issues" but eventually had to fess up that they were working on "Signal Timing". Red Line is like the one semi decent transit option in this city and City Hall (Probably that Elmer Fudd fuck Whitmire) and Metro (cunt board chair Brock or super cunt board member Alexandria Mealer) have conspired to fuck it up...

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Caught a social media video of a city council member or a candidate took to the streets to show that walking was faster than the Red Line MetroRail while in the downtown district. Metro ended up being faster but not by much.

The light rail system disappointed me that it's at street level for 99% of its layout so it's too slow. Every time I've researched using light rail for my commute, it would add up to an hour for my daily commute. (30 minutes in each way.)

Posted
2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Caught a social media video of a city council member or a candidate took to the streets to show that walking was faster than the Red Line MetroRail while in the downtown district. Metro ended up being faster but not by much.

The light rail system disappointed me that it's at street level for 99% of its layout so it's too slow. Every time I've researched using light rail for my commute, it would add up to an hour for my daily commute. (30 minutes in each way.)

I used to live in Midtown 6 or 7 years ago and it was nice for going downtown to hit bars with friends, or riding out to NRG or UH or the Museum District. It's really a shame that Shitmire has been fucking all our public transit up so badly.

Posted
11 hours ago, Captainant said:

I used to live in Midtown 6 or 7 years ago and it was nice for going downtown to hit bars with friends, or riding out to NRG or UH or the Museum District. It's really a shame that Shitmire has been fucking all our public transit up so badly.

Probably not too expensive for road construction companies to buy influence via donations to a mayoral campaign.

And metro hasn’t had good ideas or the ability to sell them in a while. They can’t get much support from commuters/drivers because it’s rarely better to take metrorail over driving. Perhaps it’s cheaper to take the rail but only if your time isn’t of value to you or money is a concern.

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