In 10 years we will be walking everywhere in Houston!

I don't know what this is, but I don't like it, and I'll have none of it.

 

Climate change is real. It's also been happening for the history of the Earth. The hysteria over it is delusional. Just saw a trailer for 1992's Freejack. Funny stuff.

 

Lissen' here, gramps, the timeless ballad Wanna be a Baller, a story about living and slingin' in the 713, was penned and performed by Houston GREAT Lil' Troy. Get your H-Town hip-hop history straight, homie. You can't call yourself a Houston expert without knowing it's rap roots, too.



@tinman

 

I know the song. Wasn't aware of the Houston roots.

 

Yeah….I was joking BACK then you joked so…

 

Some white boys from Hawaii were singing this on a cruise three years ago

I was proud

 

Interesting graph.

 

Where would you walk a lot of streets in Houston don't even have sidewalks.

 

Soon enough, even the sidewalks we have will become toll roads.

 

Any Houston native that doesn't know that should be removed from the loop

 

I see we beat Dallas, again. They didn't even bother to show up.

 

How would you implement mass transit in Houston?

Elevated rail, subway with pumping systems, right of way?

 

Flood-proof air-conditioned pedestrian tunnels everywhere.

 

Filmed on I-10 in San Antonio.

 

and that makes all the sense in the world

Rocket River

 

if the price of gas keeps going up it will be 10 weeks not 10 years

 

For Houston's urban planners and Texas lawmakers/regulators, car dependency isn't a bug, it's a feature. The folks who run the show want you to be driving everywhere because it benefits their bottom line, so a-drivin' we shall go.

It's going to take several dozen (maybe hundreds) of generations to unwind this amount of deliberate sprawl.

It wouldn't be so bad if the individual neighborhoods and suburbs were designed to be pedestrian friendly, but they're very much not. Pretty much the only place in Houston you can get by without a car is Midtown, and that's only if you're young and childless.

Car free lifestyle is very liberating. It was a very bizarre experience for me to go from regularly driving 30+ minutes for a normal errand to walking everywhere. But I highly recommend it. If you grew up car dependent it's easy to assume that is just "the way things work", but it's a total sham.