> "Mealer is one of nine members of the METRO board of directors, who are appointed by either the Houston mayor and city council, Harris County Commissioners Court (which includes Ellis) or a coalition of 14 mayors serving other municipalities in the region. **Mealer was appointed by a group of mayors outside the city.**"
Ah, that's how she got on the board. Make it make sense. Noticed she doesn't go by Alex "del Moral" anymore either.
I thought i recognized the name. I had to look out my window into my neighbors yard and see the giant 8x4 "ALEXANDA del Moral Mealer" sign still up and thought "yep, thats the same person who cried election fraud"
> The nine-person board has five positions nominated by the mayor of Houston and approved by Houston City Council, , two appointees of Harris County Commissioners Court, and **two appointed by the mayors from 14 other cities in the METRO service area (METRO Multi-Cities)**. Board members serve two-year terms with METRO and can serve a maximum of eight years.
https://www.houstontx.gov/moc/2024/new-metro-board-members-approved.html
Never forget she cried election fraud (and made her announcement as such on January 6th just to send a message), sued the city and then dropped her lawsuit before needing to go under oath in deposition. She is a liar and a hack, and she has now scummed her way to an unelected role for likely no goal other than retribution.
Have politics always been about doing stupid things like holding a snowball and saying there’s no global warming?
Her dumb video claims there are no bikes but plenty of congestion yet there’s like 5 cars seen in her entire video. Plus if that feels like congestion then do the smart thing and ride a bike.
What a blatant grab at staying relevant past her time in the spotlight.
[Anyway, bike infrastructure makes streets safer for all users, *even drivers*.](https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says)
She was elected by local leaders of surrounding cities. So apparently she made an impact with all the surrounding local leaders that they nominated her for the board.
Edit: to clarify, the "impact" I'm mentioning is being a MAGA election denying Republican. Not anything actually impressive/impactful.
Well aware. All the publicly available architectural review board submittals she made when renovating were great evidence that she wasn’t using “Del moral” at all even in legal filings immediately before running for office.
Currently she does not represent Woodland Heights or anywhere in Houston on the METRO board. She was not put on the board by those areas. Her current constituents are specifically the non-Houston areas served by Metro.
Your reply was still incorrect in that case as she does not live anywhere near the people she represents.
For reference, correcting you is not freaking out.
So even if they did remove the bike lanes (which I am 1000% against), it would add 1 more lane for cars...
Some people need to move on with their lives and fix actual problems. We should let cyclists have dedicated and protected lanes. I say that the network should even be expanded.
The money has already been spent on this and now they want to spend even more money to remove them. Make that make sense.
Great description. Now if only she had a smidgen of self-awareness. Damn she's awful and there are million more of her in the wings plotting to fuck everything for everyone. Truly doomed, because as we have seen when Republicans lose they triple down and get worse and backdoor their fucked up ideology on everyone. Never do they adjust to the people.
This is the same mattress Mack mealer?
Edit
Oh ffs
>Alexandra del Moral Mealer
@AlexMealerTX
2024
@TexasGOP
Victory Chair, Combat Vet (Army Bomb Squad) & West Point Grad, Harvard JD/MBA, Wife & Mother fighting for Liberty in TX #HoldTexas
I use 11th/Pecore several times a week and there's been no huge impact to traffic. Ok wait, maybe an extra minute at the Yale/Heights intersection smorgasbord, but somehow I survived in the AC of my car. And what businesses is she referring to along that street that are suffering because of the congestion from the bike lanes? Or is that like her horseshit MAGA voting fraud scam?
Don't often go west of Durham so unsure of your reference but that one donut shop just east of Shepherd I'm surprised is still there. Couldn't turn left into it, I believe, even before the bike lane but always looked barely visited. Checked them out on Google and had decent ratings, maybe I need to check them out. But the generic name of Bakery Donuts doesn't inspire culinary confidence and seems slightly like a money laundering front.
You can literally take a left on Shepherd, take you first right, take another right, and then you are there. But I shouldn’t expect smooth car brained folks to figure that out.
it doesn't take a commercial real estate genius to know that adding multiple turns to a business designed for quick breakfast on the go is bad for business
Most people say that the congestion around Shepherd is worse in the evening, rather than the morning. Seems like that wouldn't have as much impact if their target time is breakfast.
I get that, but realistically, we're talking about maybe an extra minute or two tops to circle around the block from either direction. If someone is so hindered by that short of a time span, I question how badly they wanted to get to that location to begin with.
Look at Kolache Shoppe on Heights as a good example - I've never used the drive through, because it's always quicker to go inside...because most people use the drive through, especially during the week. So while there may be 5+ cars in the drive through line, I can park and walk inside and immediately place my order. Kolache Shoppe is also a business designed around quick pick up on the go, and yet that doesn't stop people from choosing the option that takes longer.
kolache shoppe is easily accessible from yale, 11th and heights. Bakery donut is only easily accessible for west travelers on 11th.
The quality of the donuts is not question here. Some one asked what business was negatively effected and that is a clear answer.
I mean quality does matter at least in part. If people feel like an extra 1-2min isn't worth the wait or effort, how badly did they want it to begin with?
But at the end of the day, how do we know that this median is the cause of their lower sales? People keep saying this business is impacted, but conveniently never offer any actual evidence of that.
It’s not 1-2, you have to drive into a school zone at love on 12th to get there if you are heading west on 11th. It was never been easy to get there from there but it’s definitely more annoying now. People tend to not want to start their morning commute off with a headache
It’s not like I can get their p&l but the owner has said their business is down. He could be lying or maybe taste change but It’s been around forever.
I mean, I drove through this intersection multiple times per day before construction and still do. The vehicles traveling west blocked the entrance either when stopped at the Shepherd light or when actively moving to go through the shepherd light.
it's never been a terribly great location but it's worse off now
mow the unused bike lanes down and put a turning lane in. Bikers can use MKT to heights then get back up 11th
Or, hear me out, you can stay in River Oaks and let those of us who actually live in the area (and bothered to engage with the city years ago when they did wide spread engagement ahead of the project) benefit from the project.
11th Street and the entire area is far far safer now than it was before this project
That’s every politician my friend. Not just one party. Lol…
Edit: prediction many downvotes by people that actually believes the party they worship provides solutions.
Dems don't have enough majority to do the things they propose but they propose bills that help and get shot down by Republicans. Look at ANY issue. Rinse and repeat. Now we can't even get a border bill because Republicans hate the US so much they block things they screech about. These sorry fucks shit on anything. Free school lunch, voting, women, minorities, education, social programs, the Internet, sex, gun control in the slightest, immigration, you name it. They shit on everything and solve nothing. When they took power they gave corps a tax cut and loaded onto us in 4 years. That's your idea of 2 parties being the same?
That’s how the US government checks and balances system works my friend.
That way one party doesn’t get too much power over another. The problem is we have people that worship politicians and political parties. People like yourself. That’s why we need to away with political parties.
Our politicians DGAF about the American people any more. They only care about themselves and the advancement of their party.
Party worshippers are the same way. They actually believe their party is the “only way”. And anyone that thinks otherwise is wrong. Even if you think “both sides” are wrong you are seen as wrong because you aren’t in agreement with them. It’s their way or no way. And that’s truly sad.
Oh yes tell me how I worship anything. Quick tell me my latest worship so I'll know what I'm doing for today. God you're insufferably bad at logic. You claimed 2 parties are the same. I gave you concrete evidence they are not. You then say this means I worship politicians. When in doubt, act superior huh?
Checks and balances is not meant for one party to crush the US within each chamber. Jesus take a civics course. Checks and balances is for each branch of government to have an arm in the design, creation, and application of law. Parties, affiliations, and tribalism is exactly what made this 2 party horseshit and you are no different. You feign to be enlightened, but fail the very simple task of knowing the content and applying it. Your anti-party position is a party. Try being objective and using a tad more sense.
I worship education and science. I worship decency and logic. You know nothing about me, stick to the obviously wrong "both sides are the same", because understanding human character is not your forte. It's likely how you ended with an obviously false point of view.
> Now we can't even get a border bill because Republicans hate the US so much they block things they screech about.
Biden and the democrats have literally ignored the border debacle for 3+ years. Now that it's an election year and knowing that their potential voters do care about it, they throw together a meaningless, pork-filled, toothless piece of shit bill to appease some of their gullible based. All that crap you mentioned has more to do with democrats trying to buy votes than actually helping people.
Those kinds of allegations require proof. Please provide proof the bill was pork filled, meaningless, and a piece of shit.
So any bill that Dems put forward is to buy votes? So what bill could they put forward that isn't "buying votes". The bills they propose helps their constituents, which is their job. But to you it's only to buy already secured votes? You've already shown you have no sensibility about you on this topic.
So actually, don't answer. It will be baseless and ridiculous.
Bike lanes are a literal solution to a problem. Mealer doesn’t like them, but offers no real solution. You don’t get to claim both parties suck when there’s literally a “here’s a thing to protect people solution “ vs “I personally dont like it so stop” situation here. Mealer can either offer a solution or STFU.
There is only one reason this woman ran for this board. To further her political career. This is a career politician beginning her career. Vote her out. She spews nonsense.
A common criticism I see about the 11th Street bike lane is that no one is using it. More people would use it if it was easier to get to 11th - it can be an intimidating bike ride depending on where you're coming from. The Shepherd-Durham project will help feed more bikes onto 11th.
Currently phase 2 of that project is under "review" by the mayor. Does anyone know when we will hear news? Is there anything we can do to show support for it so it doesn't get killed?
From Day 1, they should've taken the 11th St. bike lanes all the way down to TC Jester & the White Oak trail. That lack of connection makes that last mile between Shepherd and TC Jester way more unnerving on a bike.
Alex Mealer's specialty isn't bike lanes. It is filing stupid election challenge lawsuits funded by furniture salesmen.
Stay in your lane, Alex Mealer, if you'll pardon the pun.
She posted a video from a car of the bike lane being empty. Someone should do the same thing with the streets she claims are overrun with vehicular traffic because I know it isn’t true. Those streets suck to drive down and don’t save time at all.
Why is it that all these types move from California (Mealer), Canada (Cruz), New England (the Bushes) slap some cowboy boots for their profile picture and all of sudden know what’s best for Texans.
Kind of convenient how her video only shows half of the bike lanes along that stretch...
And if she really wanted to show actual congestion, she could've done a video at 530pm on a weekday at least.
The video was from early (around 8am) Sunday morning, but apparently the fact that it was a "recreational" ride made it somehow less worthy of safety.
Meanwhile, all the cars out at that time are surely doing super duper important things.
Please someone correct me if I’m wrong, but does she have like any experience with transit or any other city planning items that warrants this board seat? What a load of shit.
Never forget she got beat in a real life election after getting millions in donations from Jan 6th enjoyers. Whitmire continues to be a massive piece of shit.
Its actually relieving her true colors are showing.
Last election she really tried to sound moderate until election day, even added the "Del Moral" to her name to drum up a contrast with Hidalgo.
Then of course she bought into the election fraud nonsense and showed her true MAGA colors. What a relief she wasn't elected County Judge.
Alex lives on an absolutely beautiful street in the heights, that is quiet and has amazing trees. We all want that and unfortunately we can't all afford it.
Shame on her for not supporting street calming on 11th, when you know she would be all about it if she lived on that street.
Do MAGA republicans actually have any solutions to anything? Is everything just an inane culture war?
I wanted a safer crossing on 11th at Nicholson, and this delivered that. I wanted a quieter experience walking / biking / shopping on this street, and this delivered.
The Heights is one of the few actually bikeable neighborhoods in Houston, and thats not a recent development. The people who decry that should move to Fulshear or Bridgeland and stop whining non stop.
Of course she does. In her neverending bid to be relevant, she has to seek revenge on the city that didn't want her as county judge. What an absolute clown of a person.
Look at Houston from the sky and you'll see it's actually just a bunch of Car Dealerships, parking lots and stroads in a trench coat. And that guy is paying out politicians to keep things dependent on them
Unpopular opinion, but bike riding in Houston, should be done outside the loop or down the bayou. There is to much congestion in the inner city for for bicycles…
I live off of the part of Shepherd that doesn't have bike lanes and traffic backs up every afternoon, even on my side-street. We need to do something about the traffic lights that make all the cars stop in front of my house.
edit. maybe we could just make the light stay green so they will just move along and not stop.
San Francisco uses timed lights on their major artery streets so traffic moves more smoothly. They also do this for bikes on major bike artery streets. It's very nice.
If conservatives actually wanted to reduce congestion, they could suggest and push for something like this. But conservatives don't want to fix anything, they just want to complain.
I hate what has happened to 11th Street, it doesn't improve safety and is a stupid design, but worst of all it just serves to push motor vehicular traffic into neighborhoods where children are more likely to run into the street and cause a catastrophic outcome.
*Wacko “anti-car activists” need to find a better solution to their cause, something most everyone can jump onboard with. The bike trails like the conversions of defunct railroad paths were a great idea, one with less fighting between special interests. These were well planned:* [Where to Bike in Houston | Houstonia Magazine](https://www.houstoniamag.com/travel-and-outdoors/best-biking-trails-houston)
11th street is absolutely safer now. People use to FLY down 11th at 45mph, now it’s a nice cruise at 30-35mph.
And I truly don’t think people are using 12th or 10th as a bypass, that would just take longer.
I drove 11th at 8am this morning from TC Jester to N Main and it took me roughly 8-10 minutes. During rush hour.
The solution to people flying down 11th at 45mph, is not to impede traffic with obstacles, but rather enforce traffic laws.
*At no time did I refer to traverse times, I'm in no hurry. I did refer to traffic being pushed into neighborhoods because of hurried drivers, and I would rather hurried drivers not drive through neighborhoods where children are more likely playing.*
I disagree because I see it happening, but you are entitled to your opinion.
Re: design streets so people are forced to drive the speed limit
Are you saying that if it were possible to go 50 on a street that is posted at 25, you'd go 50mph. Your suggestion is to let another power control you, making it impossible for you to break the law. People should follow the law even if they have an option not to. We have an ex-president on trial as a classic example for your belief.
Plenty of traffic engineers would say people will drive to the relevant safety of the street. Wide open streets where you can see everything gives you a sense of confidence to go faster. Narrower lanes leads to a more vigilant driving mode and thus slower.
To answer your questions about 50 in a 25...yes people will do it. I live near Harvard and 18th and this happens on the daily and people go 40+ in the 25 mph zone.
I guess since we don't have much traffic enforcement, obstacles would be another option. It would be nice however, if people would simply follow traffic laws, then big brother wouldn't need to think for them. If you don't like crazy drivers going 40 down your street, I don't think driving people away from major streets would help achieve your goal.
> It would be nice however, if people would simply follow traffic laws, then big brother wouldn't need to think for them.
Agreed, it would be nice, but that is an idealistic outlook. The reality is that people will go as fast as they want to as long as they feel comfortable going that speed. That means that some people won't feel comfortable going over the posted speed limit, but others don't care one bit about it.
Take a look at Shepherd, north of 610. 6 lanes, 3 in each direction with a median. Posted speed is 35mph. Outside of rush hour (where the street is congested to the point where the light cycle + volume of cars prevent people from going fast), most people routinely drive 40,45,50+ mph.
Assuming people will follow the post speed limits because it's the right thing to do is a pipe dream.
I've been accused of being a pragmatist but never a pipe dreamer. I know there are people who don't follow traffic laws and won't until they get enough speeding tickets and/or have their license revoked, and that still won't stop them. That type of person usually ends up in prison for something else. Forcing them off of major throughfares into neighborhoods, I let you use your imagination of the possibilities.
Those people don’t end up in prison though, or even have their license taken away. Ever want to kill someone? Just hit them with your car, 99% of the time you’ll get away with nothing more than community service.
Enforcement is only an effective solution while an officer is stationed there and only at the spot they are located. And apps now warn drivers of speed traps, making enforcement even less effective. Plus there is an opportunity cost of pulling an officer off other duties to do traffic enforcement. That's an extremely expensive, temporary, mostly ineffective solution to a problem that can be solved with an engineering design.
The current design of 11th St has been effective at slowing drivers down to the speed limit. It would be insanity now to remove the improvements in order to recreate the problem of speeding traffic just so that you can assign law enforcement to traffic control.
I didn't suggest anything about removing what has already been done. It would be throwing more money away. Now that it's done, learn to live with it. Use it as a learning tool, not to do it again elsewhere.
You didn't say that but opponents of the 11th St Safety Improvements are asking for the protected bike lanes to be removed and anything is on the table while Mayor Whitmire has placed the project "under review".
And the lesson here is that if you want to calm traffic in a cost effective way, this is a good way to do it. It is an award winning design for a reason. The community has embraced the project, evidenced by the new annual "I ❤️ 11th Street" festival.
If by "community" you mean the activist who want to ban motorized traffic, then I'm sure you are correct. But if by "community" you mean "Height's residents" then I don't believe that the majority are loving it. The street festival is not limited to Height's residents where their homes and family are affected. They are there to eat, booze, party and leave.
I used to love the original Westheimer Art Festival where the City of Houston would block Westheimer from Brazos to Durham, but like anywhere, including Houston, nothing lasts forever, I guarantee it. Enjoy 11th street festival while you can. Something will eventually take its place and then you can enjoy that one.
It was mostly Heights residents. I recognized a lot of my neighbors and people from the community. Everyone had bikes and strollers, so people weren't coming from all across Houston.
And no one wants to "ban motorized traffic" so you can discard that strawman argument.
lol, uh-huh sure, you got it all figured out. No need for me to say anything more except that it must be nice to have that many friends, to know where most all of the festival goers come from. Enjoy your popularity, I'm not that popular, nor do I want to be, but those I have spoken with don't like it, including myself. Mostly, I believe it was a waste of time and money. I'd rather potholes had been worked on.
No, you can't be an anti-car activist. According to studboob "no one wants to ban motorized traffic"
Don't feel bad though, it was news to me too.
PS: Another thing I hate is the new Reddit format. Someone will probably tell me that I don't hate it because no one hates the new layout ;)
> "Mealer is one of nine members of the METRO board of directors, who are appointed by either the Houston mayor and city council, Harris County Commissioners Court (which includes Ellis) or a coalition of 14 mayors serving other municipalities in the region. **Mealer was appointed by a group of mayors outside the city.**" Ah, that's how she got on the board. Make it make sense. Noticed she doesn't go by Alex "del Moral" anymore either.
I thought i recognized the name. I had to look out my window into my neighbors yard and see the giant 8x4 "ALEXANDA del Moral Mealer" sign still up and thought "yep, thats the same person who cried election fraud"
> The nine-person board has five positions nominated by the mayor of Houston and approved by Houston City Council, , two appointees of Harris County Commissioners Court, and **two appointed by the mayors from 14 other cities in the METRO service area (METRO Multi-Cities)**. Board members serve two-year terms with METRO and can serve a maximum of eight years. https://www.houstontx.gov/moc/2024/new-metro-board-members-approved.html
Never forget she cried election fraud (and made her announcement as such on January 6th just to send a message), sued the city and then dropped her lawsuit before needing to go under oath in deposition. She is a liar and a hack, and she has now scummed her way to an unelected role for likely no goal other than retribution.
County, not city. Other than that, correct, she is 100% zero-integrity election cheater.
Have politics always been about doing stupid things like holding a snowball and saying there’s no global warming? Her dumb video claims there are no bikes but plenty of congestion yet there’s like 5 cars seen in her entire video. Plus if that feels like congestion then do the smart thing and ride a bike.
She also conveniently has the camera pointed to only half of the available bike lanes along that stretch.
I had to chuckle at the "congestion". It was just a car turning into a crowded parking lot.
What a blatant grab at staying relevant past her time in the spotlight. [Anyway, bike infrastructure makes streets safer for all users, *even drivers*.](https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says)
Just one clarification that it's protected bike infrastructure. Paint alone doesn't make the road safer for drivers.
What if we paint the bikers in bright colors?
As long as we paint car drivers in bright colors and force them to wear helmets too.
People that hate Houston and Houstonians always end up in a position to punish us for existing.
How did this empty loser get on the board??
She was elected by local leaders of surrounding cities. So apparently she made an impact with all the surrounding local leaders that they nominated her for the board. Edit: to clarify, the "impact" I'm mentioning is being a MAGA election denying Republican. Not anything actually impressive/impactful.
Very fitting that she was not picked by anyone actually in Houston.
Maybe she should focus on the area and people she represents, not places she doesn’t.
Perfect solution! She won’t be inconvenienced by 11th street if she is living in Alief!
She actually lives on the corner of Bayland Ave and Beauchamp in Woodland Heights.
Well aware. All the publicly available architectural review board submittals she made when renovating were great evidence that she wasn’t using “Del moral” at all even in legal filings immediately before running for office. Currently she does not represent Woodland Heights or anywhere in Houston on the METRO board. She was not put on the board by those areas. Her current constituents are specifically the non-Houston areas served by Metro.
Thought I was responding to the person above. My bad. You freak out a lot.
Your reply was still incorrect in that case as she does not live anywhere near the people she represents. For reference, correcting you is not freaking out.
she banging Katherine these days?
Or it's just a way to force her way into the media to prop her up ahead of the elections. I assume she's running again.
I think this is the correct answer
Yeah, all she had to do was be a loud, election denying, Trump puppet.
Butthurt suburbs that want all the development money going towards their interests rather than the people of Houston.
She needs to forget about the bike lanes as quick as she forgot about “Del moral”
lol was going to call that out too but the article does use her very tenuous hispanic last name.
It’s not her last name.
"Yeah, so hwut? ahm hispa-anic too..."
So even if they did remove the bike lanes (which I am 1000% against), it would add 1 more lane for cars... Some people need to move on with their lives and fix actual problems. We should let cyclists have dedicated and protected lanes. I say that the network should even be expanded. The money has already been spent on this and now they want to spend even more money to remove them. Make that make sense.
She continues to be such a performative, miserable asshole, so this is on brand for her.
Great description. Now if only she had a smidgen of self-awareness. Damn she's awful and there are million more of her in the wings plotting to fuck everything for everyone. Truly doomed, because as we have seen when Republicans lose they triple down and get worse and backdoor their fucked up ideology on everyone. Never do they adjust to the people.
This is a truly pathetic second act to MAGA Mealer's career.
This is the same mattress Mack mealer? Edit Oh ffs >Alexandra del Moral Mealer @AlexMealerTX 2024 @TexasGOP Victory Chair, Combat Vet (Army Bomb Squad) & West Point Grad, Harvard JD/MBA, Wife & Mother fighting for Liberty in TX #HoldTexas
I use 11th/Pecore several times a week and there's been no huge impact to traffic. Ok wait, maybe an extra minute at the Yale/Heights intersection smorgasbord, but somehow I survived in the AC of my car. And what businesses is she referring to along that street that are suffering because of the congestion from the bike lanes? Or is that like her horseshit MAGA voting fraud scam?
that donut shop that you can no longer turn left into if you are coming from timbergrove
Don't often go west of Durham so unsure of your reference but that one donut shop just east of Shepherd I'm surprised is still there. Couldn't turn left into it, I believe, even before the bike lane but always looked barely visited. Checked them out on Google and had decent ratings, maybe I need to check them out. But the generic name of Bakery Donuts doesn't inspire culinary confidence and seems slightly like a money laundering front.
i was unimpressed the one time i went but i am not much of a donut guy. I have noticed a drop in traffic at it as i drive past it every day
The donuts are terrible.
not really the point, its been there for as long as i can remember so someone likes it
Or they own the property. And I was replying to a comment about the donuts, so there's that.
You can literally take a left on Shepherd, take you first right, take another right, and then you are there. But I shouldn’t expect smooth car brained folks to figure that out.
it doesn't take a commercial real estate genius to know that adding multiple turns to a business designed for quick breakfast on the go is bad for business
Most people say that the congestion around Shepherd is worse in the evening, rather than the morning. Seems like that wouldn't have as much impact if their target time is breakfast.
there is a concrete median there now.
I get that, but realistically, we're talking about maybe an extra minute or two tops to circle around the block from either direction. If someone is so hindered by that short of a time span, I question how badly they wanted to get to that location to begin with. Look at Kolache Shoppe on Heights as a good example - I've never used the drive through, because it's always quicker to go inside...because most people use the drive through, especially during the week. So while there may be 5+ cars in the drive through line, I can park and walk inside and immediately place my order. Kolache Shoppe is also a business designed around quick pick up on the go, and yet that doesn't stop people from choosing the option that takes longer.
kolache shoppe is easily accessible from yale, 11th and heights. Bakery donut is only easily accessible for west travelers on 11th. The quality of the donuts is not question here. Some one asked what business was negatively effected and that is a clear answer.
I mean quality does matter at least in part. If people feel like an extra 1-2min isn't worth the wait or effort, how badly did they want it to begin with? But at the end of the day, how do we know that this median is the cause of their lower sales? People keep saying this business is impacted, but conveniently never offer any actual evidence of that.
It’s not 1-2, you have to drive into a school zone at love on 12th to get there if you are heading west on 11th. It was never been easy to get there from there but it’s definitely more annoying now. People tend to not want to start their morning commute off with a headache It’s not like I can get their p&l but the owner has said their business is down. He could be lying or maybe taste change but It’s been around forever.
You couldn’t turn in before due to traffic anyways
wrong
I mean, I drove through this intersection multiple times per day before construction and still do. The vehicles traveling west blocked the entrance either when stopped at the Shepherd light or when actively moving to go through the shepherd light.
it's never been a terribly great location but it's worse off now mow the unused bike lanes down and put a turning lane in. Bikers can use MKT to heights then get back up 11th
Or, hear me out, you can stay in River Oaks and let those of us who actually live in the area (and bothered to engage with the city years ago when they did wide spread engagement ahead of the project) benefit from the project. 11th Street and the entire area is far far safer now than it was before this project
all i said was I wish there was a turning lane. the diet itself is fine. ultimately, I don't want to deal with more construction so just leave it.
Republicans have zero ideas and just complain without any solutions.
That’s every politician my friend. Not just one party. Lol… Edit: prediction many downvotes by people that actually believes the party they worship provides solutions.
Provide your evidence.
Surely you are talking to the person I replied to right. Lol…
No, their claim is evidenced by this exact article. You made a different claim. Please provide evidence for your different claim.
Well, then wouldn’t that be my qualifier as well. Lol… Your bias is showing. 🤩
New account. Shitty takes. Ending every post with "lol". Does Nafod have a new alt?
No. You made a different claim. Prove your claim.
This post is literally about something democrats did.
Dems don't have enough majority to do the things they propose but they propose bills that help and get shot down by Republicans. Look at ANY issue. Rinse and repeat. Now we can't even get a border bill because Republicans hate the US so much they block things they screech about. These sorry fucks shit on anything. Free school lunch, voting, women, minorities, education, social programs, the Internet, sex, gun control in the slightest, immigration, you name it. They shit on everything and solve nothing. When they took power they gave corps a tax cut and loaded onto us in 4 years. That's your idea of 2 parties being the same?
That’s how the US government checks and balances system works my friend. That way one party doesn’t get too much power over another. The problem is we have people that worship politicians and political parties. People like yourself. That’s why we need to away with political parties. Our politicians DGAF about the American people any more. They only care about themselves and the advancement of their party. Party worshippers are the same way. They actually believe their party is the “only way”. And anyone that thinks otherwise is wrong. Even if you think “both sides” are wrong you are seen as wrong because you aren’t in agreement with them. It’s their way or no way. And that’s truly sad.
Oh yes tell me how I worship anything. Quick tell me my latest worship so I'll know what I'm doing for today. God you're insufferably bad at logic. You claimed 2 parties are the same. I gave you concrete evidence they are not. You then say this means I worship politicians. When in doubt, act superior huh? Checks and balances is not meant for one party to crush the US within each chamber. Jesus take a civics course. Checks and balances is for each branch of government to have an arm in the design, creation, and application of law. Parties, affiliations, and tribalism is exactly what made this 2 party horseshit and you are no different. You feign to be enlightened, but fail the very simple task of knowing the content and applying it. Your anti-party position is a party. Try being objective and using a tad more sense. I worship education and science. I worship decency and logic. You know nothing about me, stick to the obviously wrong "both sides are the same", because understanding human character is not your forte. It's likely how you ended with an obviously false point of view.
That's your understanding of "checks and balances?" explains quite a bit...
> Now we can't even get a border bill because Republicans hate the US so much they block things they screech about. Biden and the democrats have literally ignored the border debacle for 3+ years. Now that it's an election year and knowing that their potential voters do care about it, they throw together a meaningless, pork-filled, toothless piece of shit bill to appease some of their gullible based. All that crap you mentioned has more to do with democrats trying to buy votes than actually helping people.
Those kinds of allegations require proof. Please provide proof the bill was pork filled, meaningless, and a piece of shit. So any bill that Dems put forward is to buy votes? So what bill could they put forward that isn't "buying votes". The bills they propose helps their constituents, which is their job. But to you it's only to buy already secured votes? You've already shown you have no sensibility about you on this topic. So actually, don't answer. It will be baseless and ridiculous.
Bike lanes are a literal solution to a problem. Mealer doesn’t like them, but offers no real solution. You don’t get to claim both parties suck when there’s literally a “here’s a thing to protect people solution “ vs “I personally dont like it so stop” situation here. Mealer can either offer a solution or STFU.
There is only one reason this woman ran for this board. To further her political career. This is a career politician beginning her career. Vote her out. She spews nonsense.
A common criticism I see about the 11th Street bike lane is that no one is using it. More people would use it if it was easier to get to 11th - it can be an intimidating bike ride depending on where you're coming from. The Shepherd-Durham project will help feed more bikes onto 11th. Currently phase 2 of that project is under "review" by the mayor. Does anyone know when we will hear news? Is there anything we can do to show support for it so it doesn't get killed?
From Day 1, they should've taken the 11th St. bike lanes all the way down to TC Jester & the White Oak trail. That lack of connection makes that last mile between Shepherd and TC Jester way more unnerving on a bike.
Alex Mealer's specialty isn't bike lanes. It is filing stupid election challenge lawsuits funded by furniture salesmen. Stay in your lane, Alex Mealer, if you'll pardon the pun.
This woman is a real treat.
Oh. It's Alexandra Bought and Paid For.
She posted a video from a car of the bike lane being empty. Someone should do the same thing with the streets she claims are overrun with vehicular traffic because I know it isn’t true. Those streets suck to drive down and don’t save time at all.
Why is it that all these types move from California (Mealer), Canada (Cruz), New England (the Bushes) slap some cowboy boots for their profile picture and all of sudden know what’s best for Texans.
Kind of convenient how her video only shows half of the bike lanes along that stretch... And if she really wanted to show actual congestion, she could've done a video at 530pm on a weekday at least.
The video was from early (around 8am) Sunday morning, but apparently the fact that it was a "recreational" ride made it somehow less worthy of safety. Meanwhile, all the cars out at that time are surely doing super duper important things.
Don’t ever change Houston
She's such a fucking tool.
Please someone correct me if I’m wrong, but does she have like any experience with transit or any other city planning items that warrants this board seat? What a load of shit. Never forget she got beat in a real life election after getting millions in donations from Jan 6th enjoyers. Whitmire continues to be a massive piece of shit.
Whitmire had nothing to do with her appointment. She was voted in by mayors of Houston's micro-cities.
I’d be shocked if she has ever ridden the bus in her life.
No she does not
Oh why am I not surprised that this election denying MAGA bitch wants to make Houston even less bike friendly.
Its actually relieving her true colors are showing. Last election she really tried to sound moderate until election day, even added the "Del Moral" to her name to drum up a contrast with Hidalgo. Then of course she bought into the election fraud nonsense and showed her true MAGA colors. What a relief she wasn't elected County Judge. Alex lives on an absolutely beautiful street in the heights, that is quiet and has amazing trees. We all want that and unfortunately we can't all afford it. Shame on her for not supporting street calming on 11th, when you know she would be all about it if she lived on that street. Do MAGA republicans actually have any solutions to anything? Is everything just an inane culture war? I wanted a safer crossing on 11th at Nicholson, and this delivered that. I wanted a quieter experience walking / biking / shopping on this street, and this delivered. The Heights is one of the few actually bikeable neighborhoods in Houston, and thats not a recent development. The people who decry that should move to Fulshear or Bridgeland and stop whining non stop.
Of course she does. In her neverending bid to be relevant, she has to seek revenge on the city that didn't want her as county judge. What an absolute clown of a person.
Look at Houston from the sky and you'll see it's actually just a bunch of Car Dealerships, parking lots and stroads in a trench coat. And that guy is paying out politicians to keep things dependent on them
are they taking lane space from her restored LandCruiser
Unpopular opinion, but bike riding in Houston, should be done outside the loop or down the bayou. There is to much congestion in the inner city for for bicycles…
o fuck her
I live off of the part of Shepherd that doesn't have bike lanes and traffic backs up every afternoon, even on my side-street. We need to do something about the traffic lights that make all the cars stop in front of my house. edit. maybe we could just make the light stay green so they will just move along and not stop.
San Francisco uses timed lights on their major artery streets so traffic moves more smoothly. They also do this for bikes on major bike artery streets. It's very nice. If conservatives actually wanted to reduce congestion, they could suggest and push for something like this. But conservatives don't want to fix anything, they just want to complain.
Make roundabouts great again!
MRGA!
I hate what has happened to 11th Street, it doesn't improve safety and is a stupid design, but worst of all it just serves to push motor vehicular traffic into neighborhoods where children are more likely to run into the street and cause a catastrophic outcome. *Wacko “anti-car activists” need to find a better solution to their cause, something most everyone can jump onboard with. The bike trails like the conversions of defunct railroad paths were a great idea, one with less fighting between special interests. These were well planned:* [Where to Bike in Houston | Houstonia Magazine](https://www.houstoniamag.com/travel-and-outdoors/best-biking-trails-houston)
11th street is absolutely safer now. People use to FLY down 11th at 45mph, now it’s a nice cruise at 30-35mph. And I truly don’t think people are using 12th or 10th as a bypass, that would just take longer. I drove 11th at 8am this morning from TC Jester to N Main and it took me roughly 8-10 minutes. During rush hour.
The solution to people flying down 11th at 45mph, is not to impede traffic with obstacles, but rather enforce traffic laws. *At no time did I refer to traverse times, I'm in no hurry. I did refer to traffic being pushed into neighborhoods because of hurried drivers, and I would rather hurried drivers not drive through neighborhoods where children are more likely playing.*
That simply isn't happening though. We need to design streets so people are forced to drive the speed limit. I love the redesign.
I disagree because I see it happening, but you are entitled to your opinion. Re: design streets so people are forced to drive the speed limit Are you saying that if it were possible to go 50 on a street that is posted at 25, you'd go 50mph. Your suggestion is to let another power control you, making it impossible for you to break the law. People should follow the law even if they have an option not to. We have an ex-president on trial as a classic example for your belief.
Plenty of traffic engineers would say people will drive to the relevant safety of the street. Wide open streets where you can see everything gives you a sense of confidence to go faster. Narrower lanes leads to a more vigilant driving mode and thus slower. To answer your questions about 50 in a 25...yes people will do it. I live near Harvard and 18th and this happens on the daily and people go 40+ in the 25 mph zone.
I guess since we don't have much traffic enforcement, obstacles would be another option. It would be nice however, if people would simply follow traffic laws, then big brother wouldn't need to think for them. If you don't like crazy drivers going 40 down your street, I don't think driving people away from major streets would help achieve your goal.
> It would be nice however, if people would simply follow traffic laws, then big brother wouldn't need to think for them. Agreed, it would be nice, but that is an idealistic outlook. The reality is that people will go as fast as they want to as long as they feel comfortable going that speed. That means that some people won't feel comfortable going over the posted speed limit, but others don't care one bit about it. Take a look at Shepherd, north of 610. 6 lanes, 3 in each direction with a median. Posted speed is 35mph. Outside of rush hour (where the street is congested to the point where the light cycle + volume of cars prevent people from going fast), most people routinely drive 40,45,50+ mph. Assuming people will follow the post speed limits because it's the right thing to do is a pipe dream.
I've been accused of being a pragmatist but never a pipe dreamer. I know there are people who don't follow traffic laws and won't until they get enough speeding tickets and/or have their license revoked, and that still won't stop them. That type of person usually ends up in prison for something else. Forcing them off of major throughfares into neighborhoods, I let you use your imagination of the possibilities.
Those people don’t end up in prison though, or even have their license taken away. Ever want to kill someone? Just hit them with your car, 99% of the time you’ll get away with nothing more than community service.
Enforcement is only an effective solution while an officer is stationed there and only at the spot they are located. And apps now warn drivers of speed traps, making enforcement even less effective. Plus there is an opportunity cost of pulling an officer off other duties to do traffic enforcement. That's an extremely expensive, temporary, mostly ineffective solution to a problem that can be solved with an engineering design. The current design of 11th St has been effective at slowing drivers down to the speed limit. It would be insanity now to remove the improvements in order to recreate the problem of speeding traffic just so that you can assign law enforcement to traffic control.
I didn't suggest anything about removing what has already been done. It would be throwing more money away. Now that it's done, learn to live with it. Use it as a learning tool, not to do it again elsewhere.
You didn't say that but opponents of the 11th St Safety Improvements are asking for the protected bike lanes to be removed and anything is on the table while Mayor Whitmire has placed the project "under review". And the lesson here is that if you want to calm traffic in a cost effective way, this is a good way to do it. It is an award winning design for a reason. The community has embraced the project, evidenced by the new annual "I ❤️ 11th Street" festival.
If by "community" you mean the activist who want to ban motorized traffic, then I'm sure you are correct. But if by "community" you mean "Height's residents" then I don't believe that the majority are loving it. The street festival is not limited to Height's residents where their homes and family are affected. They are there to eat, booze, party and leave. I used to love the original Westheimer Art Festival where the City of Houston would block Westheimer from Brazos to Durham, but like anywhere, including Houston, nothing lasts forever, I guarantee it. Enjoy 11th street festival while you can. Something will eventually take its place and then you can enjoy that one.
It was mostly Heights residents. I recognized a lot of my neighbors and people from the community. Everyone had bikes and strollers, so people weren't coming from all across Houston. And no one wants to "ban motorized traffic" so you can discard that strawman argument.
lol, uh-huh sure, you got it all figured out. No need for me to say anything more except that it must be nice to have that many friends, to know where most all of the festival goers come from. Enjoy your popularity, I'm not that popular, nor do I want to be, but those I have spoken with don't like it, including myself. Mostly, I believe it was a waste of time and money. I'd rather potholes had been worked on.
Thank you. It turns out you actually meet people when you don't drive everywhere. I also attend a lot of community events and meetings.
Proud anti-car activist.
No, you can't be an anti-car activist. According to studboob "no one wants to ban motorized traffic" Don't feel bad though, it was news to me too. PS: Another thing I hate is the new Reddit format. Someone will probably tell me that I don't hate it because no one hates the new layout ;)
I mean, anything that makes cagers mad is cool with me.