Comments on: West Houston’s KATY Freeway http://www.jasoncoleman.net/2005/08/25/west-houstons-katy-freeway/ All the makings of a real web site, plus my stuff. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:44:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jason Coleman http://www.jasoncoleman.net/2005/08/25/west-houstons-katy-freeway/#comment-3418 Jason Coleman Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:43:36 +0000 http://www.jasoncoleman.net/archives/2005/08/25/west-houstons-katy-freeway/#comment-3418 Well, Latisha, I guest you should really direct your complaint to Austin, since this is a TxDOT project. Of course, my understanding is that the Texas legislature does a lot of really odd things. As to the "why" part of your question, I'm afraid I was way too far the food chain of this project to begin to answer it. I can say this, if a state has the money to spend on construction projects, they seem to rarely wait for a better time and just spend it immediately. Here in Richmond, there is a rather large bridge widening project underway about a mile from my home (also one of my former employer's projects). I understand how frustrating it is to have to deal with large civil project such as the KATY corridor. They stretch for many years and cause inconvenience on nearly just as large a scale. However, once it's all said and done, traffic should be much better (at least for the next 20 years or so). Of course, having several major arteries in the western part of Houston seems to be poor planning, indeed. Well, that's a lot of words for not much of a response. Thanks for posting a comment all the same. I hope to hear from you again sometime. Well, Latisha, I guest you should really direct your complaint to Austin, since this is a TxDOT project. Of course, my understanding is that the Texas legislature does a lot of really odd things. As to the "why" part of your question, I’m afraid I was way too far the food chain of this project to begin to answer it. I can say this, if a state has the money to spend on construction projects, they seem to rarely wait for a better time and just spend it immediately.

Here in Richmond, there is a rather large bridge widening project underway about a mile from my home (also one of my former employer’s projects). I understand how frustrating it is to have to deal with large civil project such as the KATY corridor. They stretch for many years and cause inconvenience on nearly just as large a scale. However, once it’s all said and done, traffic should be much better (at least for the next 20 years or so). Of course, having several major arteries in the western part of Houston seems to be poor planning, indeed.

Well, that’s a lot of words for not much of a response. Thanks for posting a comment all the same. I hope to hear from you again sometime.

]]> By: latisha http://www.jasoncoleman.net/2005/08/25/west-houstons-katy-freeway/#comment-3417 latisha Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:34:12 +0000 http://www.jasoncoleman.net/archives/2005/08/25/west-houstons-katy-freeway/#comment-3417 [lives in houston off of 290/west] WHY is it that HOUSTON has decided to work on EVERY major hwy 10, 610, 59, beltway 8 and whatever else all at the SAME time...i can't wait till the katy freeway is finished and 59 isn't closed anymore on the weekends...ugh...terrible constrution, and terrible planning IMO [lives in houston off of 290/west] WHY is it that HOUSTON has decided to work on EVERY major hwy 10, 610, 59, beltway 8 and whatever else all at the SAME time…i can’t wait till the katy freeway is finished and 59 isn’t closed anymore on the weekends…ugh…terrible constrution, and terrible planning IMO

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