Noticed that too on Wednesday when I was out for a walk. Think it was the stand at Nicholson and 19th or 20th that was tapped off

Are the city and county back to "Covid gonna kill everyone" mode?

No, the City ran out of money to maintain the bikes.

Nothing exciting here other than the City saying it will study what they've done for six months.

Poor Daddy's as they're not selling chicken during the busy afternoon but have seen a couple cars use the empty parking lot as cut through to turn right on Shepherd.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/heights-11th-street-project/285-0943daf0-ceb5-4752-b5ee-bf415ca88dc2

We got three coupon postcards from Daddy's in the mail yesterday. They must be hurting for some business. Also, My husband went there on Friday and said the food was terrible. If their quality has slipped that much in this short a period of time, no wonder they are struggling.

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We got three coupon postcards from Daddy's in the mail yesterday. They must be hurting for some business. Also, My husband went there on Friday and said the food was terrible. If their quality has slipped that much in this short a period of time, no wonder they are struggling.

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I predict it will be closed by summer

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Might be something going around with restaurants in the area. Chivo's closed within the last month and now Lola has trimmed their hours back from an already-trimmed back 9:00 closing to 8:00 closing every day except Saturday.

Previously lived in the Heights on W 8th street. Was back in the Heights driving on 11th Street this past Sunday. Never seen traffic backed up at Yale and at Shepherd on a Sunday afternoon. Sat through three cycles at the light at Shepherd to get through. Hate to see it on a weekday rush hour. What a mess. And, BTW, didn't see a single bike in the bike lanes.

super cringey

"Im going to Daddys tonight"
"Do you want to go to Daddys tonight "
"Daddys was so delicious"

blech. all sounds so wrong.

I love how the tweet is written like it was unprinted but you know he told everyone in that establishment with ears who he was, how he got there, and what part he played.

There's plenty of graft in politics but I don't think this is one. Budget is only $650K so nobody is getting rich off this.

This is all about disguising a desired perception of transportation in the name of traffic safety.

Budget is only $650,000?

Wow, incredibly low. I'm sure the quality is top notch. Good grief.

It's really not much work. Just some new signs, re striping and pouring concrete curbs and medians.

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It's really not much work. Just some new signs, re striping and pouring concrete curbs and medians.

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Was the asphalt resurfacing under a different contract then?

Yep. Definitely no opportunity for theft at this project. And just think, there are literally THOUSANDS of more projects like this one across Houston just ripe for the picking.

It was done under a different project. It would have happened regardless of the idiocy for the bike lanes.

Red Pear Realty said:

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Yep. Definitely no opportunity for theft at this project. And just think, there are literally THOUSANDS of more projects like this one across Houston just ripe for the picking.

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I need to get my wife to start a business that goes after government contracts. If only she were a minority, then the government practically couldn't say no.

Just tell her to add some pronouns onto her email signature and she identifies as "blah, blah,blah" liberal jargon.

I'd rather find out my wife was who dantes gf in clerks was based on than ever hear her mutter anything about the way she identifies.

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It was done under a different project. It would have happened regardless of the idiocy for the bike lanes.

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Thanks.

I assumed the paving was part of the bike lane contract and why I was pretty much in complete shock.

Do you remember when that was? I didn't start going to meetings until January of last year.

Too bad they couldn't take that left turn lane and have made it a thru lane beyond Shepherd.

I don't remember, but it was on the 90% design.

Oh damn. That's way late in the process for them to finally realize that. Doesn't surprise me though as they never really thought this through.

If you'd kept your dang mouth shut maybe they would have installed it and then converted it to another through lane across Shepherd!

I do love the new talking point is they're going to wait six months after the project is completed in March to make a final assessment. Grrrrrrreat…

Their current mindset is "we're in construction phase, so of course it's worse than usual. It'll calm down once construction is done"... hence their 6 months line.

The traffic is the traffic, regardless of if there are orange cones around. 11th backs up past where I live (Herkimer) so we're seeing people turn down our street and fly through at unsafe speeds in order to get down to a different cross-street.

On the plus side, I did see someone pushing a stroller in the bike lane the other day, at least someone is using it if the bikers aren't.

If you're bored there's quite a few new questions and answers on this page.

Nothing earth shattering and more of the same for the most part. It does reference some questions we've had.

The bike lane street sweeper isn't ready and the City wants residents to with trash cans to find spots that don't block the bike lane.

The bus platforms on Heights sound like a complete disaster for blocking traffic. Love the fact that bikers can't fully use the bike lanes on Heights right now because they've got it blocked off for the construction of these things.

https://www.letstalkhouston.org/11th-street-bikeway?tool=qanda#!

I noticed all trash cans on westbound 11th were on the curb this morning and not blocking the new bike lanes, so that's good.

WTF is the purpose of the flowing bus stops? At least there's a cut through for bikes, I thought they were going to have to go into the main lanes.

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The bike lane street sweeper isn't ready and the City wants residents to with trash cans to find spots that don't block the bike lane.

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So the city wants people to just deal with their trash not being collected because sideloaders can't reach the cans.

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It's science!!

How else can Houston look more like the urban hell landscapes of California and NYC if there isn't garbage sitting everywhere which hasn't been picked up in months?

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There was just some kind of incident where I heard police sirens - and I saw an HPD motorcycle flying down the bike lane.

And yall thought they wouldn't be used!

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I remember a lot of concerns that emergency vehicles wouldn't be able to move down 11th with clogged lanes. Looks like HPD motorcycles were the solutions all along!