Buffalo Bayou Improvements: Pedestrian Bridges & Strolling, Happy People

• Bayou upcoming improvements are going to be another treasure for the city and region . These upgrades to Buffalo Bayou (and future improvements) will result in a bayou park that rivals New York's Central Park, and far surpasses anything in Texas, including the River Walk in San Antonio.

•  I hope, unlike Memorial Park, I see more Beaners such as myself there.

• What a beautiful blue stream in which to let my dog swim in.  How do they get the water so blue?  That is a dog swimming, right, and not a bear? And why is that pink pterodactyl flying above its head, trying to eat it or save it?  This picture frightens and confuses me.  Don't want.

• That is the problem when you rely on private funding to complete public enhancements, you are at the mercy of the money flow.  The complete Buffalo Bayou master plan has the potential to be a real quality of life enhancement to this city, which I would think would help draw more residents to and benefit those who already use the park, but unless there is more public money thrown at it we are likely going to see a totally stripped down version, or not much movement at all for years.  Cause you know how Houstonians hate the government wasting tax dollars, especially on anything pretty or holistically beneficial.

• The organization is really good at producing pretty pictures and grand concepts -- but not so good on followthrough.  Take a look at the run-down building at Main and Commerce next to Allen's Landing.  BBP announced a project years ago to fix this place up.  Lots of talk, but no money to back it up...

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