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REV Houston

by Graham on September 4, 2008

I’ve been meaning to hitch a ride in one of these cool new green electric cars that are roaming midtown and downtown. They’re run by a Houston-based startup called REV Houston. Apparently, they’ll take you anywhere in the downtown/midtown area for free–all they want in exchange is tips.
I’m happy to see more public transportation in [...]

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100 Fewer Billboards

by Graham on August 18, 2008

photo credit: ultramega
This is good news! Apparently Mayor White has a plan to remove 800 billboards from the city streets by the end of this year. The 100th billboard was removed last Thursday. I’m glad to hear these eyesores are going away.
Now if only we could bring down those big billboards sitting on the [...]

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Cheating the One-way Street

by Graham on July 8, 2008

Before I moved to Houston, I had deep respect for one-way streets. Where I grew up, short of plowing into a parked police car, there were very few things you could do behind the wheel that were as embarrassing as driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
So I have been surprised [...]

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