Current Events > Wtf why is Houston so poorly designed

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Literally EVERY weekend there's massive amounts of traffic buildup from people trying to go to a market right around the corner from my home, making the simple act of just going to the gas station less than .5 miles from my home take 10-15 minutes.

It's like this everywhere.

WTF

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Because it's literally nothing but flat land with no natural obstacles to stop it from growing out vs growing up/in.
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Bio1590 posted...

Because it's literally nothing but flat land with no natural obstacles to stop it from growing out vs growing up/in.

Makes sense.

But holy fuck is it annoying how there's always a million cars on the road at any given time

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Because there are 6 million cars on the goddamn road every minute here.

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Downtown? Just move here? Long time?

Yeah, I live in pasadena and if anything I do involves downtown my girlfriend drives because she works all over houston, fuck that.
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because their expansion was not planned well.

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Bio1590 posted...

Because it's literally nothing but flat land with no natural obstacles to stop it from growing out vs growing up/in.

That and we don't have zoning.

Despised posted...

Downtown? Just move here? Long time?

Yeah, I live in pasadena and if anything I do involves downtown my girlfriend drives because she works all over houston, fuck that.

I've been here for 5 years but the constant traffic and need to drive everywhere is wearing thin on me. I now work an office job, and a location that's only 7.6 miles away takes me 40-50 minutes to get to. Makes no damn sense.

One of the biggest factors for why I'm trying to leave.

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Austin is pretty much the same tbh.
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Denver is the same, what an awful city

The joke was always "Denver is only 30 minutes from Denver"

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I've been here for 5 years but the constant traffic and need to drive everywhere is wearing thin on me. I now work an office job, and a location that's only 7.6 miles away takes me 40-50 minutes to get to. Makes no damn sense.

One of the biggest factors for why I'm trying to leave.

Damn dude only 7 miles I'd just get a bike

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Old design for a city they didn't expect to be a mega city.

Hell Phoenix has a few million people but even back in the 50s they designed outlying areas with a grid system and multi lane roads. Not hard to get around Phoenix.

Dallas and Houston grew too fast with little planning.

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Njolk posted...

Damn dude only 7 miles I'd just get a bike

Roads aren't designed for bicyclists here

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Njolk posted...

Damn dude only 7 miles I'd just get a bike

Roads aren't designed for bicyclists here

Yeah TC would end up roadkill within a week
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It doesn't help that over the past 5-10 years the driver's themselves became exponentially worse.

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Is anything actually well planned in Texas?

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Master_Bass posted...

Is anything actually well planned in Texas?

The food?

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Taharqa_ posted...

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no wonder they all died at that concert

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DirkDiggles posted...

Happens at least once a day where some asshole in a pickup truck speeds ahead to beat everyone to the merge.

Last week someone drove on the shoulder to do it. The drivers here suck ass.

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Reminds me of Miami traffic. Living there was the worst two years of my life.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Happens at least once a day where some asshole in a pickup truck speeds ahead to beat everyone to the merge.

Last week someone drove on the shoulder to do it. The drivers here suck ass.

I mean technically it has been tested that a zipper merge is better for traffic than merging early. Though speeding up and driving on the shoulder are not.

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LightHawKnight posted...

I mean technically it has been tested that a zipper merge is better for traffic than merging early.

Well yeah, that's the proper way to do it, but the thing is that Texans don't know how to drive.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Well yeah, that's the proper way to do it, but the thing is that Texans don't know how to drive.

I can attest to that. The majority of these clowns get their license out of a cereal box. They don't yield for oncoming traffic too. I was headed to work the other day and this lady in a BMW was suppose to yield and I had the right of way. Gets pissed at me and throws up the finger a few times and break checks me. I just shake my head and roll along. Just another day in Arlington.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

But holy fuck is it annoying how there's always a million cars on the road at any given time

because there's shit for public transport. Partially because of the oil and gas lobby (HQ'd in houston) knows there's more consumption demand without public transport and actively fight against it, and partially because houston is SO large and spread out that it's a massive undertaking and now a cyclical problem.
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DirkDiggles posted...

I can attest to that. The majority of these clowns get their license out of a cereal box. They don't yield for oncoming traffic too. I was headed to work the other day and this lady in a BMW was suppose to yield and I had the right of way. Gets pissed at me and throws up the finger a few times and break checks me. I just shake my head and roll along. Just another day in Arlington.

The amount of people I've seen straight up run stop signs in busy parking lots is absurd.

And these problems are exacerbated by shitty road design. Like in order to get home, I have to do a U-turn on the feeder road. The lane is literally designed for this, and yet it's designed in such a way that you damn near have to turn your head 180 degrees just to see if any cars are coming. God Forbid anybody decides to start speeding through.

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I dont get people that **** about traffic in their city

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

I dont get people that **** about traffic in their city

Maybe it's because they have to deal with it every day

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Extremely minimal effort into public transportation. When public transportation gets the shaft, it's not a viable option and people will always opt for driving their own car. Make public transportation a real option, people start using that and traffic will start to let up.

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And whats with all the god damn paper plates even on old as shit cars

CADE FOSTER posted...

And whats with all the god damn paper plates even on old as shit cars

They may or may not attempt to shoplift

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DirkDiggles posted...

They don't yield for oncoming traffic too.

This is the shit that drives me up a fucking wall. People in Houston just fucking HAVE to be first and it fucks everything up for everyone.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Literally EVERY weekend there's massive amounts of traffic buildup from people trying to go to a market right around the corner from my home, making the simple act of just going to the gas station less than .5 miles from my home take 10-15 minutes.

It's like this everywhere.

WTF

Because you live in the wrong place in Houston.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Happens at least once a day where some asshole in a pickup truck speeds ahead to beat everyone to the merge.

Last week someone drove on the shoulder to do it. The drivers here suck ass.

If it makes you feel any better that happens literally everywhere


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You think that's bad, don't try to drive in LA. I drive in rush hour 5 days a week.

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Car dependent culture and the suburbs are the culprit. The city is designed for parking spaces instead of people.

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concrete jungle is why it always floods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxykI30fS54

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Because it wasn't designed. It's just sprawl the city.

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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Car dependent culture and the suburbs are the culprit. The city is designed for parking spaces instead of people.

Bingo. This is a common problem in the US. Pouring ungodly amounts of concrete without actually making life better for people.

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I read that katy freeway is the biggest freeway in the world that's insane we still have way to much congestion that would be alleviated by getting people to work at home for good

Bio1590 posted...

Because it's literally nothing but flat land with no natural obstacles to stop it from growing out vs growing up/in.

There's a joke about this in comics that perfectly explains it to non Americans like me.

Kaine, the Scarlet Spider (Spider-Man's 2nd clone to take the name because comics), is webswinging around his newly adopted home Houston when he suddenly plummets to his death and manages to snag a webline just in time. He wasn't used to the fact that Houston doesn't grow upwards as NYC does.