Flying Again

KingDL1 · April 17, 2007

I had to work Sunday morning with my camera, while in the area I took a few photos of campus.

Plus other campus photos

Also a couple of the new Cowboys Stadium.

bobelok · April 17, 2007

Wow, these pictures are really cool. Thanks for sharing!

FirefightnRick · April 17, 2007

Wow, thanks for the great photos King.

Just wanted to reiterate something which I can better explain from one of your photos.

See the nice homes that sit on/around the court at the top right of this photo? That's Tremont Court. See the house in the dead center of the court, closest to the NT property, property which was the golf course? The woman in that house, and the residents around her were the loudest and most vocal bitchers that led the Denia Neighborhood Anti-NT expansion campaign three years ago. See their backyards, specifically hers? They backed up to one of the golf greens(not sure what the number was on that hole) but it sat only feet away from her back door but was manicured and watered at the university's expense. Remember the sob stories they told the TEA in Austin about how North Texas was going to destroy their serene, peacefull surroundings if allowed to build on it's own property? In this same photo look at our softball field. Just below the left field fence is a railroad. You can see it better here in this photo. That railroad has a train that goes down it every 30 to 45 minutes and if you have spent any amount of time in a tent during bonfire-building week you know how loud it is. I'd guess that railroad is maybe 500 yards from Tremont Court?

Not to even mention there were football and baseball games going on next to that railroad many times during the year when Denton Liberty School was still on that property, but that's what pissed me off the most about that group from Denia and that is what I tried to depict in my photos I showed countering their arguements during that whole mess.

Rick

Edited April 17, 2007 by FirefightnRick

emmitt01 · April 17, 2007

Strangely Fouts doesn't look so terrible from these photos.

Mean Green 93-98 · April 17, 2007

I had to work Sunday morning with my camera, while in the area I took a few photos of campus.

Not sure what your line of work is, but it seems to give you a unique perspective.

UNT Mean Green · April 17, 2007

Nice pictures! Good work!

UNTflyer · April 17, 2007

I need to get back in the air.

Travis · April 17, 2007

I want to go for a ride sometime!!!

DeepGreen · April 17, 2007

Excuse my ignorance, but what is this area by the athletic village? Indoor practice facility under construction? :rolleyes:

FirefightnRick · April 17, 2007

Deep, it seems that is where the new intramural fields will be?

Rick

GabeGMG · April 17, 2007

Yep, intramural fields.

KingDL1 · April 17, 2007

Deep, it seems that is where the new intramural fields will be?
Rick

If you look a the large image it seem that they have installed several lights for illuminating the fields.

Mad Hatter · April 17, 2007

I'm sure it's part of someone's plan, but they should really look into widening Bonnie Brae and then lining the sidewalks with trees. Would look very nice in a few years.

UNTLifer · April 17, 2007

I'm sure it's part of someone's plan, but they should really look into widening Bonnie Brae and then lining the sidewalks with trees. Would look very nice in a few years.

If it is done on Denton's normal timeline, this will be completed about 10 years after the stadium is built.

NT80 · April 17, 2007

I'm sure it's part of someone's plan, but they should really look into widening Bonnie Brae and then lining the sidewalks with trees. Would look very nice in a few years.

Bonnie Brae over there is just a rough blacktop two-lane country road and is a major detraction from the improvments made at Eagle Point. It definately resembles a construction area road. There are no turn signs to the AC off that airport road and I'm sure visitors to those venues are underwhelmed at the access.

Edited April 17, 2007 by NT80

DeepGreen · April 17, 2007

Hey, that's where I sit! Now do you know who I am? :w00t:

Edited April 17, 2007 by DeepGreen

UNT_playmaker · April 18, 2007

Wow, thanks for the great photos King.
Just wanted to reiterate something which I can better explain from one of your photos.
See the nice homes that sit on/around the court at the top right of this photo? That's Tremont Court. See the house in the dead center of the court, closest to the NT property, property which was the golf course? The woman in that house, and the residents around her were the loudest and most vocal bitchers that led the Denia Neighborhood Anti-NT expansion campaign three years ago. See their backyards, specifically hers? They backed up to one of the golf greens(not sure what the number was on that hole) but it sat only feet away from her back door but was manicured and watered at the university's expense. Remember the sob stories they told the TEA in Austin about how North Texas was going to destroy their serene, peacefull surroundings if allowed to build on it's own property? In this same photo look at our softball field. Just below the left field fence is a railroad. You can see it better here in this photo. That railroad has a train that goes down it every 30 to 45 minutes and if you have spent any amount of time in a tent during bonfire-building week you know how loud it is. I'd guess that railroad is maybe 500 yards from Tremont Court?
Not to even mention there were football and baseball games going on next to that railroad many times during the year when Denton Liberty School was still on that property, but that's what pissed me off the most about that group from Denia and that is what I tried to depict in my photos I showed countering their arguements during that whole mess.
Rick

FFR, you are absoutely correct about your analysis. I remember that lady in DRC articles while the Eagle Point Center was being discussed. She was very vocal and made UNT redisgn what they initally wanted to do. She did get more trees put in as a buffer between the houses and UNT's Eagle Point. I forgot their was a railroad that went through that part of town actually. That is a really good point, cause if I remember correctly, Tremont is supposed to be a high priced subdivision, I never understood why, cause the locale isnt all that great, and with a railroad so close by, then I believe who ever bought a house in that vicinity that was high dollar got taken to the cleaners.....

Baby Arm! · April 18, 2007

FFR, you are absoutely correct about your analysis. I remember that lady in DRC articles while the Eagle Point Center was being discussed. She was very vocal and made UNT redisgn what they initally wanted to do. She did get more trees put in as a buffer between the houses and UNT's Eagle Point. I forgot their was a railroad that went through that part of town actually. That is a really good point, cause if I remember correctly, Tremont is supposed to be a high priced subdivision, I never understood why, cause the locale isnt all that great, and with a railroad so close by, then I believe who ever bought a house in that vicinity that was high dollar got taken to the cleaners.....

I wonder how she's going to react once the new stadium is built and people are tailgating in that greenbelt (ala The Grove at Ole Miss)?

gksmith · April 18, 2007

I really need to get back in the air too.

GreenBlooded1 · April 18, 2007

Sure would be nice if that train that runs through there was part of the new DCTA rail system... talk about easy to get to a game from the metroplex in a few years. That would be awesome!!! We could have our own version of Victory Station!!!!

DeepGreen · April 18, 2007

babyarm,

Great signature pic!! :thumbsup:

Edited April 18, 2007 by DeepGreen

UNTflyer · April 18, 2007

Sure would be nice if that train that runs through there was part of the new DCTA rail system... talk about easy to get to a game from the metroplex in a few years. That would be awesome!!! We could have our own version of Victory Station!!!!

The current plan is to run the DCTA trains from downtown and down the east side of I-35. That rail line that runs through the Village area is freight.

But who knows... it the I35W corridor grows, the may put in a rail line that runs to Cow Town and right through the Village.

UNTflyer · April 18, 2007

Bonnie Brae over there is just a rough blacktop two-lane country road and is a major detraction from the improvments made at Eagle Point. It definately resembles a construction area road. There are no turn signs to the AC off that airport road and I'm sure visitors to those venues are underwhelmed at the access.

Bonnie Brae is in the process of being repaved down by Vintage Blvd, which is where my house is located. It's been closed off for a couple months.