Archive for the 'tunneling' Category
The brilliance of freeway tunnels (part 2 of 2)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis December 13th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesPart 1 here. Reading the paper sparked a couple of my own variant ideas. All of the conceptual cross-sections show two tunnels, but some tunnel concepts contain as many as 8-9 lanes in each one (stacked 2-3 levels high inside the tunnel cross-section…
The brilliance of freeway tunnels (part 1 of 2)
Closed Published by Tory Gattis December 10th, 2007 on Houston StrategiesA few weeks back, Gonzalo Camacho sent me an intimidating 30-page white paper on the tunnel option for expanding the I-45N corridor using some of the newest tunnel-boring technologies from Europe and elsewhere. It took me a while to get around to read…
Home affordability in real-life context, top rankings, tunnel costs, a Portlander disagrees, renewable energy in Houston
Closed Published by Tory Gattis January 1st, 1970 on Houston StrategiesThe small items are piling up faster than ever this year:The 4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey 2008 - Ratings for Major Urban Markets has been released, and Houston again scores extremely well, with a median house price …