Yea. We are ready so broke and on top of that we have to pay to be on the road. We are ok how we are!! Houston is already ugly! City representatives care about money money money. Leave our city alone! Ugly sights every where😢
Honestly. Why add more lanes. It doesn't reduce traffic. Honestly put more light rails and high speed trains. That will reduce congestion by removing cars.
The elected officials who approved this project need to be recalled and the project cancelled immediately. It will be a total failure like the I 10 expansion and the rebuilt 610/59 Galleria interchange. Billions spent yet traffic is at a standstill most hours of the daytime.
@@univisiontech1 Build commuter rail lines at a fraction of the cost, disruption, and time. Instead, METRO builds light rail on streets where bus service has existed for 60+ years. The light rail CAUSES traffic problems when the gates drop and cars back up for traffic lights to cycle 3-4 times before passing an intersection.
@@tomaslopez2940umm, that state agency in charge of it and has unfettered control of these decisions has been run by Republicans for almost 40 years now.
This is sad for me. This is my favorite restaurant to pick up food. I've been going there for years. You won't find better Singapore Noodles or Shrimp Fried rice anywhere else in Houston.
@@bashns7743 I'll have to try theirs. You could be right but I stand by the Singapore Noodles at Kim Son being the best and I've tried a lot of restaurants because I particularly love noodles.
@@scorpionoir4952 dang bro, i need to try those Singapore noodles! I will surely take a trip to Kim Son this weekend. I also recommend Mai's chicken wings. They are deliciously delicious
@Nick-lh8rl money is involved restaurants have landlords and property on their names. Of course the county will ask them for money to build a freeway. This isn't a communist country and tell them to get out were building a freeway here and not pay them.
Univisiontech few people use public transportation relative to driving BECAUSE we’ve made it less convenient due to car companies lobbying. If public transport got funding to be better then more people would use it.
Corruption like always in Houston. I wish companies could be forced to employ people from the area. Why do people from the north have to cross town to work and spend hours in the traffic? And viceversa with people on the south crossing to the other side of Woodlands, Kingwood, Conroe etc. It doesn't make sense. Somebody has to propose to companies to hire people in the same area! That way we could be making our life easier. Getting home faster, less cars on the freeway, less road rages, less gas spend, less tire wear, less miles on our cars. Hello!
Williams Brothers construction lobbies for policy that will get them more road construction contracts. They lobbied heavily against Prop B in 2023 and is the largest donor to mayor John Whitmire (who is now ignoring the will of the voters on prop B and MetroNext).
@381delirius Exactly, they get all major contracts and don't sub out to smaller contractors. I know because I wanted a city contract and WB are always awarded city contracts as the primary
I’m sorry, but we should be honoring the family and their amazing American 🇺🇸 immigrant success story. There’s plenty of alternative buildings we’d all see destroyed.
I was born in 85 and used to go to a church by Mesa Rd so we used to drive by china town all the time in the early 90s, one of my earliest memories seeing China Town as a kid. Im sadden by this news. The real definition of "Started From The Bottom Now We're Here."
It's been proven that "more" lanes doesn't cut down but adds to congestion. Granted, the 10/45/59 combo interchange is outdated, but more lanes won't amount to a bandaid on an amputation.
Why dont they just do double decker freeways! 🛣️ one on top of the other. By the time this freeway done 4 million extra more people will be in Houston and it will be pointless and still need to add or make bigger!!
@@FriedBirdFlu oh and don’t forget about TXDOT finding some random road that goes over IH-45 and says “I’m personally offended looking at this, we have to make it be an underpass instead.” No, please stop doing that. Just leave it as an overpass.
that's great. 10 years of construction just for the congestion to be the same in a couple of months. What a joke. Houston needs better public transportation like Boston.
How is that the 45n expansion. That picture indicates a merger into 59n in front of GRB and (going underground, why?). The 45n lanes at 59n go down to 2 lanes going around the southside of downtown. Thats were the major traffic is, not merging into 59n. 59n will heavily conjusted. That's not a well thought out plan
@jayasmrmore3687 yeah not to mention, we are 100 yrs into gas engines, that's says a lot about how much they hate the environment. It should be obvious how they have held us back, all the while telling us, what's good for us.
Or you only get one maybe two good strong payouts. Ignore them, you get what they want to offer, pennies. I remember China Town when I first moved here in, July, 1980. Then I moved back to my home state, and came back 10 yrs later and was surprised it was gone. Kim Soo, thanks for your service😢 Going to miss that beautiful fish tank
Worst city officials in the world, here in Houston. No need to expand, how about start fixing the streets? Don't need to drive far from the restaurant to find so many issues in the area.
LoL I love the shameless Sriracha sauce plug! For anyone that doesn't know they're going to be just fine. They've gone in to food manufacturing and that's their own private label he has sitting on the table
People love their cars. There are Park & Rides all over. Yes the traffic is a bummer but people sit in traffic forever. If these big corporations would stop coming here, it would stop the traffic jam. Even Westheimer is a parking lot. When I was in college, graduating in 1995, I took a Geography class. My teacher who was in his 80s at the time, said the interstates are going to become parking lots. Looks like he's right. 😢
That's not there first, or original location. Back tban that area was where the chinese had there busineses. All the vietnemese had our own shopping area on milam. There old location is on the same street. I use to love downtown back in the 80s. Things are so different now.
there is a voting process and apparently it passed. I knew about this but was not sure it would go through, I am assuming by the time it gets done, it will again be over congested like every other road in houston.
Good hardworking respectable parent generation, horrible sons generation and I have witnessed unlawful business practices by the sons. I witness them first hand. I just wish there were better recording devices back then to record it all. Their family and I are from the same hometown.
Expanding 45 to alleviate congestion will inevitably cause worse congestion for at LEAST another decade before we can get back to the normal congestion we started with 😂😂😂 this is madness
Thats the reason I stopped going to Bayou City Wings on 45 at Fuqua, disgusting nasty booths...the upholstery looks like they haven't cleaned it in a decade
I think they are glad to get a state buyout. They just closed Sugarland location. Personally, i think the food is bland compared to other vietnamese restaurants.
It's almost like the people who make these decisions don't even LIVE in Houston.....🤷♀️🤦♀️
@@jomariemartinez1710 and the other way around too. The people who live in Houston are NOT the ones getting to make the decision.
Who gives a F about another useless freeway expansion all they're doing is making space for Toll lanes that we have to pay to use.
You don't have to. You can drive around on other roads.
@@jadesea562 You don't think I already know that.
Yea. We are ready so broke and on top of that we have to pay to be on the road.
We are ok how we are!!
Houston is already ugly!
City representatives care about money money money.
Leave our city alone!
Ugly sights every where😢
Games are now pay to win and our roadways are pay to use 😢
@@jadesea562Charles Schwab over here
Honestly. Why add more lanes. It doesn't reduce traffic.
Honestly put more light rails and high speed trains. That will reduce congestion by removing cars.
Shhhh you’re making too much sense. The dummies like TXDOT, city of Houston, and greater Houston partnership have to get their money from this…
For sure. The current light rail can be expanded quite a bit
The elected officials who approved this project need to be recalled and the project cancelled immediately. It will be a total failure like the I 10 expansion and the rebuilt 610/59 Galleria interchange. Billions spent yet traffic is at a standstill most hours of the daytime.
Another reason why Houston needs to vote red instead of blue from now on. It's an embarrassment that this city is a blue island in a based red state!
@@tomaslopez2940😅
And what do you recommend we do for the traffic?
@@univisiontech1 Build commuter rail lines at a fraction of the cost, disruption, and time. Instead, METRO builds light rail on streets where bus service has existed for 60+ years. The light rail CAUSES traffic problems when the gates drop and cars back up for traffic lights to cycle 3-4 times before passing an intersection.
@@tomaslopez2940umm, that state agency in charge of it and has unfettered control of these decisions has been run by Republicans for almost 40 years now.
This freeway plan is a disaster. There is no way that this will work once completed.
This expansion project is a joke. Imagine putting a freeway underground where it floods
don't worry, it will act as a large drain to move flood water too...
Did you see illegals that run TXDOT?
But but but TXDOT says it’s ok!!! Lol
@@PunannyMon lmao
@@WakandaleezaRazz just like TXDOT, they are a joke too.
So a topic that always gets brushed off…
Has the TOLLWAY been PAID OFF yet??
Shhhh the corruptly politicians want to count their money in peace
Great question. Too bad it will keep getting brushed off
@@bashns7743No, and not with the New suspension bridges being built.
As long as they keep adding new projects, why would it ever be?
This is sad for me. This is my favorite restaurant to pick up food. I've been going there for years. You won't find better Singapore Noodles or Shrimp Fried rice anywhere else in Houston.
Idk man. I love Kim Son but i think Mai's shrimp fried rice is slightly better
@@bashns7743 I'll have to try theirs. You could be right but I stand by the Singapore Noodles at Kim Son being the best and I've tried a lot of restaurants because I particularly love noodles.
@@scorpionoir4952 Completely agree on the Singapore noodles! They're not going to be the only one crying when they shut down, either.
@@scorpionoir4952 dang bro, i need to try those Singapore noodles! I will surely take a trip to Kim Son this weekend. I also recommend Mai's chicken wings. They are deliciously delicious
Just leave 45 where it is. This is ridiculous.
absolutely not, the traffic is absurd
Its horrible design good thing they working on it
@@rigo-bear-toeThis won't fix traffic. The i-10 expansion is an example. And this project here will be another example.
@@381delirius absurd
@@rigo-bear-toe I know right
Mann they got some real money for closing this location
Not really if they would have refused to close it the state would have forced them out .m
@ you a fool they got paid homie that place is legendary in htown!!! They can’t force you to close and not pay you. Make it make sense please
@Nick-lh8rl money is involved restaurants have landlords and property on their names. Of course the county will ask them for money to build a freeway. This isn't a communist country and tell them to get out were building a freeway here and not pay them.
@@rod.john08 have you heard of eminent domain
@@rod.john08 eminent domain
Adding more lanes to i45 making it the next i10 ( katy freeway) won't solve the traffic problem
Exactly! It only makes traffic worse. The only way to aid the issue of bad traffic is to invest in public transportation.
@@Lbell573 I disagree. Almost no one wants to use public transportation.
Univisiontech few people use public transportation relative to driving BECAUSE we’ve made it less convenient due to car companies lobbying. If public transport got funding to be better then more people would use it.
Somebody is not thinking in Houston.
Construccion companies making millions.
One of the Houston government workers must own a construction company and they're trying to get the contract under the water as always 😂
TxDot is in charge.
Corruption like always in Houston.
I wish companies could be forced to employ people from the area.
Why do people from the north have to cross town to work and spend hours in the traffic?
And viceversa with people on the south crossing to the other side of Woodlands, Kingwood, Conroe etc. It doesn't make sense.
Somebody has to propose to companies to hire people in the same area!
That way we could be making our life easier.
Getting home faster, less cars on the freeway, less road rages, less gas spend, less tire wear, less miles on our cars. Hello!
Williams Brothers construction lobbies for policy that will get them more road construction contracts. They lobbied heavily against Prop B in 2023 and is the largest donor to mayor John Whitmire (who is now ignoring the will of the voters on prop B and MetroNext).
@381delirius Exactly, they get all major contracts and don't sub out to smaller contractors. I know because I wanted a city contract and WB are always awarded city contracts as the primary
The greater Houston partnership is the corrupt POS involved in this
F*** TOLL ROADS, WE PAY ENOUGH FOR EVERYTHING, NOW TO USE MORE ROADS?????
I’m sorry, but we should be honoring the family and their amazing American 🇺🇸 immigrant success story. There’s plenty of alternative buildings we’d all see destroyed.
I was born in 85 and used to go to a church by Mesa Rd so we used to drive by china town all the time in the early 90s, one of my earliest memories seeing China Town as a kid. Im sadden by this news. The real definition of "Started From The Bottom Now We're Here."
Loved that you can go on 45 and 59 and I10 and circle downtown... have done this with my kids... and they enjoy it...
@@secuzz 45 has changed quite a bit since before
Houston will follow them wherever they go
It's been proven that "more" lanes doesn't cut down but adds to congestion. Granted, the 10/45/59 combo interchange is outdated, but more lanes won't amount to a bandaid on an amputation.
@@norbertdx what about it is outdated
Why dont they just do double decker freeways! 🛣️ one on top of the other. By the time this freeway done 4 million extra more people will be in Houston and it will be pointless and still need to add or make bigger!!
@@FM-sw7oh we just need more public transportation
Oh no they always doing the extra in Houston. 😮
$13 billion to still have the same congestion problems
@@derrickdoan1060 it makes it worse if anything
When he said they will probably cry that day I was honestly fighting back tears. I am going to miss that restaurant.
this is so sad. im glad they have 2 locations were they can still have there business
F i-45 expansion...It's all lies...More congestion on on that crappy freeway
Exactly! 😂
Construction for years🙄🙄
@@Peace-nm6bx Yes, it will be unbearable! This will be years of horrible backups and detours
@@FriedBirdFlu oh and don’t forget about TXDOT finding some random road that goes over IH-45 and says “I’m personally offended looking at this, we have to make it be an underpass instead.” No, please stop doing that. Just leave it as an overpass.
@@FriedBirdFlu we need more public transportation
that's great. 10 years of construction just for the congestion to be the same in a couple of months. What a joke. Houston needs better public transportation like Boston.
10? 😂😂😂more like 40 years lol
@@Erik-qy4cn absolutely. I’d love for metrorail to be expanded
A SLAB of concrete knocks out generations of hard work to nothing thats sad man that's more like the "AMERICAN NITE MARE" to me.......
How is that the 45n expansion. That picture indicates a merger into 59n in front of GRB and (going underground, why?). The 45n lanes at 59n go down to 2 lanes going around the southside of downtown. Thats were the major traffic is, not merging into 59n. 59n will heavily conjusted. That's not a well thought out plan
Williams Brothers Construction lobbied for this to happen‼️
@@381delirius I wish we could find a way to defund this company or something
And not to mention, they wonder why it gets so hot in Houston. All of that concrete and black top, but they are the geniuses right..... "WRONG"!!!!
@@Daylight-nu3rt oh they are far from geniuses
@@Daylight-nu3rt it’s easy to forget about what is good for the public when car companies keep lobbying
@jayasmrmore3687 yeah not to mention, we are 100 yrs into gas engines, that's says a lot about how much they hate the environment. It should be obvious how they have held us back, all the while telling us, what's good for us.
We not gonna talk about how much they got paid? He doesn’t seem too sad
Damn why would he sell it ? I wouldn’t have but I understand the buy out money sometimes is too good to turn down
He doesn't have a choice... ever heard of EMINENT DOMAIN? I'm sure he was compensated handsomely.
He probably was forced to
Or you only get one maybe two good strong payouts. Ignore them, you get what they want to offer, pennies. I remember China Town when I first moved here in, July, 1980. Then I moved back to my home state, and came back 10 yrs later and was surprised it was gone. Kim Soo, thanks for your service😢 Going to miss that beautiful fish tank
Their food is fantastic - especially the fish dishes. Really sorry this is happening!
Yes, by the end of next year n it's sad news. I love the the Ginger salad etc....
all of this and 45 will still stay the same
@@7eewilsmi127 it’ll probably get worse if anything
That ain’t gonnna help congestion. That’s what happened to I-10 n still jammed packed lol
Worst city officials in the world, here in Houston. No need to expand, how about start fixing the streets? Don't need to drive far from the restaurant to find so many issues in the area.
@@rafacasillas847 fix the streets and improve public transportation
I hate that for them, I remember when they first opened at that spot.
I always stop here for a small wonton soup 😢
I’m pretty sure the millions they made from the deal will help with there new location ❤❤❤
We remember TSU college parties there.
Sad to hear, however the progress of the city has to be respected.
@@daviddalton8996 but this isn’t progress.
Expanding 45 is going to be a disaster
What the city is doing should be a crime.
Houston has the worst freeways and style of driving to destinations and way that the city is built also suck
@@Screwstone713HTX right. We desperately need our public transportation extended and improved.
Wow i couldnt believe this is happening.
The geniuses at TXDOT at work!
LoL I love the shameless Sriracha sauce plug! For anyone that doesn't know they're going to be just fine. They've gone in to food manufacturing and that's their own private label he has sitting on the table
People love their cars. There are Park & Rides all over. Yes the traffic is a bummer but people sit in traffic forever. If these big corporations would stop coming here, it would stop the traffic jam. Even Westheimer is a parking lot. When I was in college, graduating in 1995, I took a Geography class. My teacher who was in his 80s at the time, said the interstates are going to become parking lots. Looks like he's right. 😢
@@brendawatkins6448 the park and rides still are not in many areas actually
Noooooo. It’s not like the expansion is going to fix traffic. We have to fix THE DRIVERS. Ghost traffic is a huge problem. People drive WAY too slow.
@@Akac3sh also we need more public transportation
Is this how houston gets ready for the World Cup?
That's not there first, or original location. Back tban that area was where the chinese had there busineses. All the vietnemese had our own shopping area on milam. There old location is on the same street. I use to love downtown back in the 80s. Things are so different now.
there is a voting process and apparently it passed. I knew about this but was not sure it would go through, I am assuming by the time it gets done, it will again be over congested like every other road in houston.
Good hardworking respectable parent generation, horrible sons generation and I have witnessed unlawful business practices by the sons. I witness them first hand. I just wish there were better recording devices back then to record it all. Their family and I are from the same hometown.
Hoping Kim Son will relocate somewhere in the EDOW
Noo!! We're sinking already
I’ve never even been
Expanding 45 to alleviate congestion will inevitably cause worse congestion for at LEAST another decade before we can get back to the normal congestion we started with 😂😂😂 this is madness
Wow. That is the shame
Just think if the border had been closed would not have had a mass invasion resulting in a need for expanded freeways.
Ah yes MORE FREEWAY to ease traffic YES that will SURELY solve things and make commuting easier right!?!?!? Hahahahahah 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐
“There is a slow down on I-45, you are still on the fastest route” 😂😂😂😂
@@derbanFOURTWENTYDEATH we need more public transportation
I promise y'all, this time traffic will be fixed for sure.
@@justinp85 😂
I say NO to 45 expansion project, it will not solve the traffic of Houston
@@lapiz4azulli same, but unfortunately I don’t think we have much power to do anything to stop them.
Almost every Vietnamese person gets married at that Kim son or the one in China town.
It really has but they check they gave them it's going to really help it😂
Recognize yes. Is it good no. I have been multiple times over my life and it sucks
🤬🤬🤬
This is wrong.
Disgusting, absolutely WRONG, ICONIC Bldg😱
Patty Sue, Maryland
Close that beeeech 😂 the food always bad and they always wanted me to hurry up and buy
They needed to clean the furniture inside anyway.
Thats the reason I stopped going to Bayou City Wings on 45 at Fuqua, disgusting nasty booths...the upholstery looks like they haven't cleaned it in a decade
What a stupid comment
@@ohreally404so tear down the whole building then genius?
he will get paid a lot of money as compensation,
No you don’t lol you get payed what the government think your property is worth bro said a “lot of money” lol
@@Ye-tf9im still a lot of money for him
I think they are glad to get a state buyout. They just closed Sugarland location. Personally, i think the food is bland compared to other vietnamese restaurants.
I prefer Huynh's restaurant a few blocks down but I believe everything has to go in that area... So sad
@@canoeshoe sure but the freeway rerouting is just dumb
This is illegal, and the family should sue because this is their property
Its not illegal.
IMMINENT DOMAIN ??????
he rich....he can get a diff location 😅
Noooooooo
Bullshit.
It’ll still be a parking lot at 5pm.