COMMENT OF THE DAY: HOUSTON’S ROOM TO SPREAD OUT “. . . We by far are not paving our wilderness in concrete. The Katy Prairie represents and extremely small portion of area getting developed. The land you see in the Katy Prairie exists throughout south central Louisiana were it’ll likely never be developed. The Texas Coastal plains is quite undeveloped also. All this crying over really nothing. Wildlife is quite more adaptable than we give them credit for and they’ll move easily where they have to. I’m more and more convinced that people that live in Houston that go after developers for building the outer suburbs don’t realized how much is not developed when they leave the city. I guess they fly everywhere versus drive. The drive from Houston to Dallas alone should demonstrate how uninhabited this state is. Better yet, drive US 59 in either direction from Houston.” [kjb434, commenting on Investing in the Grand Parkway]
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It’s actually a different environment, with different flora and fauna. But, then developers wouldn’t know about that; all they see in open land is dollar signs.
I guess we better get cracking then if we want to pave it all.
I knew this comment was kjb434 before I saw the sig. You should run for office. You’re one of the few people out there who has any sense. I’m sure you have better things to do with your time than politics though.
Yeah, better things like commenting on each and every Swamplot post ;-) Just kidding KJB, you know we love ya!
Yeah, I knew it was kjb as well; often given to nonsensical blowhard gibberish, never offering any quantitative facts/comparisons, just his personal anecdotal “observations” that teach us no more than where is bread is buttered, i.e., he’s another engineer who is annoyed that anyone would interfere with people who might give him (or his employer or his bretheren) another contract.
Transparent, unsupported by real data, and utterly self-serving. Move along folks, nothing to see here!
devans, no matter what I think of the original comment I think it’s pretty ludicrous to claim that engineers are typically unsupported by real data. If there is one profession that is tied vigorously to data it is engineering. It may be the wrong data but, and speaking as an engineer myself, I don’t even wipe my arse without data to back it up.
“often given to nonsensical blowhard gibberish, never offering any quantitative facts/comparisons, just his personal anecdotal “observations†that teach us no more than where is bread is buttered, i.e., he’s another engineer who is annoyed that anyone would interfere with people who might give him (or his employer or his bretheren) another contract.
Transparent, unsupported by real data, and utterly self-serving. Move along folks, nothing to see here!”
Gawd, what a classic example of the pot calling the kettle black. Nothing like a clueless leftist accusing a conservative of being exactly what the leftist is. Forest through the trees baby, forest through the trees.
kjb or anyone else, I wonder if you can help me out. I’m trying to find a copy of the existing WCR letter for an office building in City of Houston and wastewater seems like it might be an area you know something about. Does the City keep archives of those and if so where? Currently hitting a brick wall with the 311 folks. Thanks for your help.
Uhh no. We don’t need another freaking suburb. If you want to live way out, just move to Katy or Cypress or wherever and move into a house that already exists and is sitting there vacant. No need to create another set of roads, bridges and sidewalks to nowhere. I care about the environment and all, but I think it’s just ridiculous that people continue to want to live so far outside of the city, and commit themselves their car. Are our memories that short?? Did we completely forget about $4/gallon gas, and how much it hurt the suburbs? It’s coming back people!!
This is exactly why I stay inside the city… where it’s safe.
Jimbo:
In re your post #6:
You misread. (Perhaps compound sentences confound -certain- engineers.)
In my post #5, which you attempted to partially refute, you misread. My comments about “lack of data” go strictly to the author of the pathetic post we’re discussing, NOT engineers in general.
In the second part of the compound sentence,
I included said author amongst a (sub-) group of engineers who would support any project that spent engineering $ even if it were a profoundly stupid one like this unneeded Grand Developer Parkway extention.
…and speaking of stupid, CK, your pet project will exist only because of “leftist” stimulus funds (uh oh); no one who knows me would EVER call me a leftist. I HATE stupid
make-work projects that waste vital gov’t funds like this one. Perhaps you should return to your AM radio where you likely acquired the entirety of your post GED education.
Summary: Trashing engineers for ignoring data – no. Trashing wasteful spending – yes.
Trashing CK – not necessary if you read his “effort”, but fun, nevertheless.
Wayne-
Bingo! Exactly.
Devans you seem like such a warm, wonderful individual.
CK-
You manic depressive?
I went from a “clueless leftist” (your words) to a “warm, wonderful individual” pretty quick.
Your sarcasm is weak,as are your insults.
Perhaps you’re simply in over your head?
Reading some of your recent posts could leave a reasonable person to think so…
Pot/Kettle indeed!
Why does everything have to be in absolutes? There can be compromises in every debate. Why not get together and set aside some of the land like Addicks and Barker Reservoir for flood prevention and recreation? No doubt that NW Houston needs to be connected to W Houston via this toll road but should this be a priority over 290/hempstead corridor? No, but the powers to be are moving forward with this so people should be debating how to make this a viable project for everyone.
Devans,
Your criticism of kjb was the one that was baseless, ill stated and obnoxious. Which is typical of an obnoxious elitist liberal… as was your simple-minded insult of me. Life is too short to bother with people who refuse to conduct themselves in an adult manner.
Why don’t we just remove the label “liberal” and “conservative” from the debate and leave politics to other blogs. If I think someone is obnoxious then I will be sure to tell them but I’m not going to draw tenuous links between that and their estimated political view. There’s plenty of obnoxiousness out there to populate all political flavours.