Ive heard from numerous people that there are gators in the trinity. And big ones. Ive seen quite a few boar on the fortworth side by Euless. Not sure if their healthy drinking that water though.

Scott, this was lovely. Your explanations have made me look at it in a different light. Next time I walk through it, I will appreciate it differently.

i used to go to this mall as a kid, spent many many holiday shopping times here. as a local theyve been talking about this train for YEARS. well see

I live in Nassau County and once took the LIRR to Forest Hills specifically to take a walk through the area. It was an afternoon in early autumn and the golden light only enhanced the beauty of these streets. It was a magical world. You have to see it yourself to believe it!

Japan has been doing this for decades. If one country can benefit from bullet trains, is the USA. We have the space but have greedy goverment who is too dense to understand how much better this would be for the country, especially a place like TX.

Wow, thanks for sharing this history. I saw the second lock while mountain biking at Goat Island Preserve a few years back, and I had no idea what it's purpose was until now.

"Just one more lane!"

The story of the Texas Gulf coast is of the haves and have nots. The COBRA or coastal barrier reinsurance act is a suspiciously irregular policy. Look at its coverage map.

CONCRETE, CONCRETE, CONCRETE......AND THEY WONDER WHY WE FLOOD HERE SO BAD! DUHHHHH

#20 I think was demolished recently. Latest sat images don't show anything there.

A year later... They're still there.

I grew up in Spring riiiight on the very edge of Harris county that bordered Montgomery in the early 2000's and never heard about this so I asked my mom about it and she said "Some things people *still* don't like to talk about"

This project is about to cost 1trillion dollars and take a min of 30 yrs to finish 😫. MY LORD

I am a fishing vessel crew when my ship encountered typhoon my ship anchored there at midway island.

Aged like milk

Lot of good times in that area back in the in the late 90s early 2000s.

Cars are people too.

Dallas did end up getting port status and it's been getting larger. The International Inland Port of Dallas or IIPOD. The port district is over 7,000 acres of major warehousing and manufacturing. It's Intermodal, trucks, trains, and airport. Shipping containers are constantly moving in and out from the Gulf ports to IIPOD. Containers come in from trucks and trains across the country to get sent to the sea. It's very impressive. It's located in 5 different municipalities in southern Dallas county. Wilmer area

Grew up in Forest Hills and still live here. No place like it!

It was Lousiana it was St. Martinsville parish before the lousiana purchase. It went back and forth between 🇲🇽 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 it is also native to the Atakapas there is a large black Indian population there

I’ve wanted to know the depths of this story my whole life. I live in Dallas now but I’m from Corsicana and if you drive from Corsicana to Tyler you’ll go over a bridge where one direction of travel was raised for ships and the other direction of travel has not been raised

This is partly why I’m beginning to dislike Houston. All it cares about is unsustainable growth at the expense of all else.

I didn’t realize how much Houston had revamped their bus network until I moved to Atlanta. MARTA can’t run buses for nothing. Transit isn’t spectacular in Houston, but I remember a frequent bus route meant the bus was coming every 10-15 minutes. Thanks for showing me that you CAN live in Houston without a car.

Bars and apartments, nice nut place ... Highways are full in Houston but empty on roads. Which makes me believe America has vehicles driving themselves on highways.

Wow…who knew? I always thought forest hills was the ghetto given anything that far out on the subway lines is almost never that lovely.

I kind of like it the way it is haha...Among the gleaming skyscrapers built with money from keeping the world's lights on stands this monument to Houston's grit and realness, especially when you see that Southern sun setting through its hollow shell 🔥

Omg. I used to always say years ago that this area was so beautiful. Like walking into a different world!

I lived in Houston 1969-1984. I live in the Western MA Berkshires now. Insanity to sanity. You can have Houston.

My other home!! ❤

Imagine if the government came in, and provided affordable housing for veterans and families in need with all that vacant land. Nahh let’s help Israel, and Ukraine instead.

For a moment I thought you were going to say that its demise is the result of the death of Janis Joplin.

Ya best be strapped when ya roll thru Forest Hills shein..gangbangin' hard😆

It is irritating how developers are constantly trying to strip us of our history just to put up something that will be torn down later. These places are windows to our past that should never be forgotten.

good lol

Dallas was a shipping hub in the early day. Our grandparents came here on a wagon train from up north for business. Opened several businesses and generations later we are well established! Well done info well sought out!

all the jews live there.

The issue was the crippling amount of gang violence and mass white flight soon after…the last bastions of wealth are all gone, their children left and never went back. It is what it is. Real estate “developers” will eventually purchase the city for cheap and then re-gentrify.

Lol a resort in Palacios? No one's going there for that. It's just a shrimping town now.

Ah, Jules Leffland. He desgined a lot of beautiful buildings that are still standing in downtown Victoria.

I am so glad to have seen this. I grew up just a few blocks away in the '60s. We visited Westbury Square several times a week, and I attended school at the adjacent Little Red School House. It was a good time and place to grow up.

Far Southeast Corner? By Louisiana? Are y’all the R word? Or just too dumb to read a map? Louisiana is the Northeast. South Padre Island/Brownsville is the far southeast corner 🤦🏻‍♂️

I remember searching for homes in this part of Queens when I was young. I always dreamt of owning a home here and living a happy life. What a life it would've been.

2 years later nothing happen 😢

I love rooting for ambitious infrastructure projects, but this one would have made no sense. The Erie canal worked because it connected two giant bodies of water: Lake Erie & the Atlantic ocean (via the Hudson River). This Trinity canal, by contrast, is a canal to nowhere, i.e. to no other body of water. Moreover, while the Erie canal made an enormous impact in the 19th century, look at its irrelevance today. Such would have been the fate of the Trinity canal.

This is a lot like what's happened and is still happening around downtown San Antonio. From middle class neighborhoods to more I guess hipster and artsy kinds of restaurants and homes and so on. Idk if it's a good or bad thing but it's far from the worst things I've seen here

That's kinda screwed up that they moved the family out of their crypt

The whole thing looks like its gonna be one big clusterf*ck!

FORGET THE HIGHWAY! Put that money and more at building one of the countries best intercity transit systems. Make it so you hardly need a car in Houston. That would make Houston one of my favorite cities in the country. SO MUCH CULTURE. LOVE THE PEOPLE.

Is it still safe? Defunding Police sentiment created crime wave all across NY

And this is why Houston is broke....poor planning and legal battles with landowners for useless fake traffic solutions