"Campus has 65,000 students, and that's larger than downtown San Antonio, so every day of the week College Station has the fourth-largest downtown in the state of Texas," said Troy Rother, a traffic engineer with the City of College Station
91_Aggie said:
There is no downtown in College Station.
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A total of 64,882 students are attending Texas A&M University for the spring 2019 semester, a record for spring enrollment. At the College Station main campus, enrollment for the spring totals 59,741 students, also a record.
A comprehensive view of Texas A&M enrollment is available on the Texas A&M Data and Research Services website.
The enrollment figures, which include students at the main campus in College Station, the branch campuses in Galveston and Doha, Qatar, the Health Science Center and other sites throughout the state, are those officially reported to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Add to that the number of TAMU employees and you are well over 60K91_Aggie said:
But all 64,000 are probably never on campus all at once on any given day.
With classes broken up into:
MWF
MW
TR
You'd be lucky to have 60% on campus at any one time
are traffic engineers appointed to some political position or are you inferring that all city workers are politicians?ratfacemcdougal said:
Politicians never lie
City hall is already there. Across the street from campus on Texas Ave. Seems pretty close to me.bcstx06 said:
Campus looks like a big downtown from Texas Ave. Northgate is kind of like a downtown. I would consider Century Square a downtown. Just put City Hall there and call it downtown.
agrab86 said:City hall is already there. Across the street from campus on Texas Ave. Seems pretty close to me.bcstx06 said:
Campus looks like a big downtown from Texas Ave. Northgate is kind of like a downtown. I would consider Century Square a downtown. Just put City Hall there and call it downtown.
bcstx06 said:agrab86 said:City hall is already there. Across the street from campus on Texas Ave. Seems pretty close to me.bcstx06 said:
Campus looks like a big downtown from Texas Ave. Northgate is kind of like a downtown. I would consider Century Square a downtown. Just put City Hall there and call it downtown.
I meant put City Hall in Century Square.
On another note, if any of y'all are from Texas and are familiar the major cities (specifically Houston and Dallas), you know that they have multiple downtowns. Houston alone has Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, Greenway Plaza, Greens Point, The Woodlands, Westchase, And the list goes on. I know at least Downtown Houston and Uptown Houston aka the Galleria Area have more than 65k workers each.
Yes, but there about about 20,000 faculty and staff and visitors on campus most all on campus much of the time.91_Aggie said:
But all 64,000 are probably never on campus all at once on any given day.
With classes broken up into:
MWF
MW
TR
You'd be lucky to have 60% on campus at any one time
halibut sinclair said:bcstx06 said:agrab86 said:City hall is already there. Across the street from campus on Texas Ave. Seems pretty close to me.bcstx06 said:
Campus looks like a big downtown from Texas Ave. Northgate is kind of like a downtown. I would consider Century Square a downtown. Just put City Hall there and call it downtown.
I meant put City Hall in Century Square.
On another note, if any of y'all are from Texas and are familiar the major cities (specifically Houston and Dallas), you know that they have multiple downtowns. Houston alone has Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, Greenway Plaza, Greens Point, The Woodlands, Westchase, And the list goes on. I know at least Downtown Houston and Uptown Houston aka the Galleria Area have more than 65k workers each.
No. A city has one downtown. Downtown Houston is downtown. The others you mentioned are neighborhoods, business districts, suburbs, etc.
Hmmm. Ok.bcstx06 said:halibut sinclair said:bcstx06 said:agrab86 said:City hall is already there. Across the street from campus on Texas Ave. Seems pretty close to me.bcstx06 said:
Campus looks like a big downtown from Texas Ave. Northgate is kind of like a downtown. I would consider Century Square a downtown. Just put City Hall there and call it downtown.
I meant put City Hall in Century Square.
On another note, if any of y'all are from Texas and are familiar the major cities (specifically Houston and Dallas), you know that they have multiple downtowns. Houston alone has Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, Greenway Plaza, Greens Point, The Woodlands, Westchase, And the list goes on. I know at least Downtown Houston and Uptown Houston aka the Galleria Area have more than 65k workers each.
No. A city has one downtown. Downtown Houston is downtown. The others you mentioned are neighborhoods, business districts, suburbs, etc.
I meant to say business districts, but when you are typing on a phone and on the go, sometimes you just don't think it through.
The quote was:theNetSmith said:
So, OP posts the above quote -- without context -- from a KBTX article about traffic congestion in B/CS, and it turns into a somewhat heated discussion about the fact that CS doesn't actually have a downtown... complete with bashing our city engineer, the source of the quote. Okay. Well done, people.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Brazos-Valley-2020-Where-were-going-well-still-need-roads-512256412.html
ETA: for those not interested in reading the article for the context, Troy Rother was comparing the most congested area in B/CS (roads/intersections surrounding campus) with the most congested areas in other cities (their "downtowns"). He wasn't saying the A&M campus is our downtown or appealing for federal funding. It's called analogy.
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"Campus has 65,000 students, and that's larger than downtown San Antonio, so every day of the week College Station has the fourth-largest downtown in the state of Texas," said Troy Rother, a traffic engineer with the City of College Station.
I was referring to EBrazosAg's comments:ratfacemcdougal said:
I was NEVER bashing the city employee. The city employee was doing what he is told to do, study and analyze traffic counts. The city, any city, will then use what they can to get money from the feds. Washington is not just going to say, "Hey, College Station needs some money, let's send them some." There are people who's only job is to fill out requests for money from Washington, or for that matter, State government.
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...some government agency employee saying that is just dumb and makes him and his agency look stupid.
So, next time maybe respond to EBrzosAg's post Directly and others will know how broad a net you're casting. Just like you did in my quote of your post.theNetSmith said:I was referring to EBrazosAg's comments:ratfacemcdougal said:
I was NEVER bashing the city employee. The city employee was doing what he is told to do, study and analyze traffic counts. The city, any city, will then use what they can to get money from the feds. Washington is not just going to say, "Hey, College Station needs some money, let's send them some." There are people who's only job is to fill out requests for money from Washington, or for that matter, State government.Quote:
...some government agency employee saying that is just dumb and makes him and his agency look stupid.
Some budding politicians on this thread. Taking a statement out of context and picking each word apart is an art.theNetSmith said:
So, OP posts the above quote -- without context -- from a KBTX article about traffic congestion in B/CS, and it turns into a somewhat heated discussion about the fact that CS doesn't actually have a downtown... complete with bashing our city engineer, the source of the quote. Okay. Well done, people.
https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Brazos-Valley-2020-Where-were-going-well-still-need-roads-512256412.html
ETA: for those not interested in reading the article for the context, Troy Rother was comparing the most congested area in B/CS (roads/intersections surrounding campus) with the most congested areas in other cities (their "downtowns"). He wasn't saying the A&M campus is our downtown or appealing for federal funding. It's called analogy.
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Basically, he was saying at times the campus and its immediate area is a traffic cluster F... and is as bad as the larger cities downtown.