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Managing the New Katy Freeway Managed Lanes

Those new center sorta-HOV lanes on the new Katy Freeway will go toll starting this weekend. Here’s a little primer to help you make intelligent purchase decisions at 65 mph or more: “The lanes will...

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Great New Indoors Replacing The Old Great Indoors

If you like intensely cinematic video renderings of former housewares stores set to a really rocking soundtrack, you’re going to love this one: It’s Block 10 West Office Park! This screenshot from the...

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Swingers Club Opening Soon in I-10 Strip Center

Sharing Benignus Plaza with Jason’s Deli, Texas State Optical, and a salon, this 2,500-sq.-ft. suite at 10321 Katy Freeway will be the first Club Champion store in Texas. The Chicago-based company...

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Comment of the Day: Visions of a Freeway Lined with Office Buildings

“I live in the area and I think it’s a big improvement on a used car lot. I would love to see the remaining car dealerships gradually moved away and a continuous strip of mid/high rises from Memorial...

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TxDOT’s Plans for Freeway Expansion Around and Below the Newly Protected...

A dotted line runs right along the inside edge of the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company’s former roasting plant at 2017 Preston St. at the corner with St. Emanuel St., which was declared a protected city...

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Comment of the Day: Those I-45 Express Lane Plans Are Cute Now But Just Wait...

“Fine with these updates, provided the Pierce [Elevated] still gets torn down. Express lanes might seem like a good idea, but they’ll most likely be hindered by limited ingress/egress and often...

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What the Brazos River Looks Like When It Shatters All Previous Flood Gauge...

TxDOT has been doing some circling around over the thoroughly soaked Brazos River valley this week grabbing a few snapshots, including some taken yesterday morning as 31 East and Central Texas...

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San Jacinto Toxic Waste Studies Delayed by San Jacinto Flooding

Another effect of the Memorial Day weekend and early June floods: the EPA says it has had to pause some of its latest study efforts near the 1960s industrial waste pits in the San Jacinto river (shown...

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EPA Suggests Taking Those Giant Piles of Toxic Waste Out from Under the I-10...

Yesterday the EPA released their recommendations for what to do about the toxic muck in the San Jacinto Waste Pits, after more than a decade of local and federal agencies poking and fishing around in...

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More Rocks To Be Stacked Around the Toxic Waste Pits under the San Jacinto...

Weather permitting, an area along the edge of the San Jacinto Waste Pits Superfund site under the I-10 East bridge should be getting around 800 cubic feet of new rocks piled onto it this week and...

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EPA: Yeah, Better Clean Out the Dioxin Pits from the San Jacinto River Now...

A bit later than had been urged by those alarmed by the longterm presence of pits full of toxic waste sealed only with a tarp on top hanging out in the San Jacinto River, the EPA has now approved a...

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Comment of the Day: No Need for a Train on I-10 When You Can Just Park-and-Bus

“. . . The train isn’t going to travel that much faster than buses, if at all. Also, buses in the Katy corridor make just one stop at most between the burbs and Downtown (the major route is express...

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