Memorial City has in the past thirty years - and particularly in the past ten - become a thing. From the alien-ship-crowned Memorial Hermann Tower, the centerpiece of the burgeoning Memorial City Medical Center, as well as Memorial City Mall, and the many other buildings in the immediate vicinity, Gessner from Memorial through Westview has become the Galleria-Westheimer-Post Oak traffic bottleneck of west Houston.
Gessner has huge esplanades at I-10. Rush hour for buses going north-south through that part of town is horrendous and will get worse and worse with time's passing.
Bus Rapid Transit - lanes dedicated exclusively to bus traffic with (hopefully) stoplight priority) on Gessner from Memorial through Westview would help bus traffic, but would it hurt car traffic enough to where it would do more harm than good to take one lane from each side and combine them with the esplanade to make for BRT lanes?
Then again, if we really want a future 40 Gessner that can actually do its job, can we afford not to put those BRT lanes in? Bus rapid transit may not have the great capacity of light rail, but it is a big step to a more mobile west side of town.
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Two weeks without a podcast! What is going on?
For starters, I still have not found time to fully tweak out the results of my 23 predictions made about the Draft Proposed Network Plan from Episode 26. In that same episode, I intend to re-record a section that came out with a 'robotic' sound in my voice - stupid mic acting up.
I have had these same issues with Episode 1, and may need to re-record that one in its entirety.
Have patience, my friends, and MANY thanks for your many pageviews on this blog and following me on Twitter: @HoustonOnTheGo
Jeff Ragsdale's musings on all-things mass-transit in the greater Houston-Galveston area
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