Commuting History Roads Safety Transit Travel Uncategorized
by Hugh
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Book review: Traffic, by Tom Vanderbilt
I’ve just finished reading “TRAFFIC,” by Tom Vanderbilt, published by Vintage Books in 2009. It is subtitled, “Why we drive the way we do and what it says about us.” I heartily recommend it to anyone interested in trying to understand the mundane yet highly complex activity we call driving.
New TexasHighwayMan.com online!
Happy New Year everyone!
Since Thanksgiving, I’ve been working almost daily on the big upgrade to my website, and I’m happy to announce that it’s done and now online!
Pigs will fly!
As a married man of a certain age, one expects to be given Yuletide tasks. It is a given that your regular round will be interrupted with missions for which it could be said you are not the most adapted member of the family. But it came to pass this holiday season that my dear wife provided me with one of the most extraordinary chores I have ever had to perform at this or any other Christmas. It involves flying pigs at the Mexican border.
Where’s the Loop 1604 Christmas tree?
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Been busy working on my big website update as well as the usual holiday tasks.
Speaking of the holidays, for the past few years, somebody has always decorated one of the trees in the median between the Loop 1604 mainlanes and frontage roads around Christmastime, usually in the vicinity of Blanco, Huebner, or Bitters. This year, I haven’t spotted one. Has anyone seen it? If not, I wonder what happened to the person who used to do it.
History Passenger rail Railroads Uncategorized
by Hugh
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Transportation Museum Christmas Show
It’s been a while since I posted here but I’ve been busy setting up “Santa’s railroad Wonderland” at the Texas Transportation Museum. In its eleventh year, this eight night event has become a significant source of revenue for this small, independent museum, which receives no government funding of any kind, from city, county, state and federal levels. So we get by, solely, on visitor support. We must be doing something right because we are still here after 45 years.
Click http://www.txtransportationmuseum.org/SHD.htm for more information about “Santa’s Railroad Wonderland.”
Uncategorized: website
by Brian
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TexasHighwayMan.com update coming soon
If you’ve visited my website lately, you’ve probably noticed that it hasn’t been updated in a while (since May in fact.) I’ve had a busy summer– a big project at work that invaded some of my free time, the duties of being the father of a now 14-month old (which I have loved every minute of), and the time I’ve invested into this new blog have all left precious little time for keeping-up my website.
However, the blessings of time-off for the holidays and some personal leave will allow me to completely update and overhaul my site, hopefully by New Year’s Day. In addition to updating all the information, I will be improving the design and format, dropping some obsolete pages, and slightly re-organizing the remaining pages to be more logical and easier to navigate. My companion site about Germany will see a similar face lift shortly thereafter.
So let me offer my apologies for allowing my site to go stale. I hope you’ll enjoy the new site!
New TransGuide site online
The new TransGuide website, as discussed in a previous post, is now online.
Car repair – be careful of what you are not paying for
Nobody enjoys having to get their automobile repaired. If you are lucky you get to drive to the shop of your choice. Finding yourself on the side of the road or even your driveway in a dead car is just about the worst feeling in this modern world of ours. You may never have a clearer understanding how much you rely on your vehicle than at this moment.
Welcome!
Welcome to On the Move! I’m excited to be part of this new forum for discussing the ever-changing and sometimes contentious scene of transportation issues here in San Antonio and Texas. I’m especially proud of the other contributors to this blog: Patrick Driscoll, former transportation issues writer for the Express-News and instigator of this endeavour, and Hugh Hemphill, curator of the Texas Transportation Museum. Both bring their unique expertise and experience to this blog.
Here we go
This is the start of a journey by three guys (bios) interested in transportation.
We’re not sure where it’s headed, which is a good thing, since most of the fun lies in uncharted areas. But we’re starting from a realization that transportation is a web that binds and builds communities and commerce. How we get around, and the ways to make it happen, helps shape everything from our personal lives to the economy.
That’s a nice broad topic, strewn with beaten paths and roads less traveled, to explore. We’ll probably wander afar. But we’re sure to tread in San Antonio and Texas, talking about toll roads and light rail, the latest construction and closures, telling tales from the road and who knows what else.
So welcome. Drop by any time. Join the conversation. Nudge us in new directions.