The view this week around Westpark Dr. at the West Loop includes both the old lattice towers currently holding CenterPoint’s electrical transmission lines and the taller, skinnier single pole models that will be taking over the gig. A reader captured some side-by-side portraits of the old towers and their replacements, which CenterPoint is deploying to raise the lines out of the way of TxDOT’s proposed future edits to the 610-59 interchange tangle. The cherry picker above is shown tethered to one of the new towers in the easement just west of 610; the top shot shows a pole up on the east side of the freeway between the Loop Central office midrises and the Danny Jackson Family Bark Park (which closed down last summer so CenterPoint could work on the land the county had been using as the park’s parking lot). Here’s a ground-level shot at the base of an old-and-new tower pair just outside the dog park, with some Houston Garden Center inventory in the background for scale: The garden supply store and nearby Candlewood Suites sign also make an appearance in this west-facing older shot of the dog park, which will probably reopen in June or so beneath the revised towerscape: Previously on Swamplot: CenterPoint Energy Work To Cause Extended Outage of Dog Park on Westpark Dr. Photos: Swamplot inbox (new transmission tower installation), Ann C. (bottom) … Read More