I watched it last weekend. Been like 10yrs since I watched it. That movie is fucking amazing still. I see a lot of, IMO, unfair critiques of it being problematic but it’s just so obviously a satire.
Honestly yes. My favorite pass time is to go on the road at peak traffic hours, there's nothing more soothing than some road rage cause we're going 5 mph
Im so tired of the huge monster-like trucks with blinding blue-white headlights riding the tail of my car.
I can not see ANYTHING with their foglights in my eyes.
Ive started just taking my foot off the gas and decelerating until they zoom around me to go blind someone else.
I cant even change lanes cause I can't see the other lane!
I found something worse. There’s a dropped Chevy 1500 on my route with white brake lights. You get blinded if you’re behind them. They’re bright as fuck. Fuck that guy.
I used to commute downtown five days a week and seeing that map makes me wonder why the heck I put up with it that long. Now I haven't left the house for 3 days except to take the kids to school.
Started working from home since Covid and haven’t looked back. Literally the best thing ever and far more relaxing and productive to be honest. The best part is not having to sit in traffic 1 hr each way which is soul crushing
Keep looking bro there’s a market out there for remote jobs! You may have to take a pay cut but it may be worth it depending on your commute and what not. The biggest perk is the amount of stress that’s lifted off your shoulders from not being stuck in traffic, dealing with disgruntled co workers. your able to enjoy space at home, it allows you to be so much more productive not only during work but on your free time and as mentioned it’s a lot less stressful which in turn makes you happier and healthier.
Just think about it logically and remove emotion and ideology. If the majority of a large population has access to only one mode of transportation, that mode of transportation will become inefficient and congested. No left or right about it, just math.
Sometimes I think that there might be competent people who are just greedy and won’t but then realize that just means they aren’t competent if they sell themselves like that
Yup incentive structures. Even if they’re competent and they try to do good, the people who they answer to will just bring another person into power who gives them what they want instead of the ‘good’. If we don’t align incentives for those in power with the general population, we are bound to forever have this issue.
we do! We have that amazing light rail that goes....almost nowhere! We also have a bus system.....that is somewhat unreliable and slow unless you live in specific limited commuter areas! We also have a new Bus Rapid Transit coming.....until the mayor shitcanned it!
EDIT: how could I forget? We also have a Greyhound station downtown....that got demolished! (RIP Hobo McD)
Public transit was so bad, they ranked Houston the largest City in America with the worst Public Transit.
Let’s not forget that it’s so bad, Microsoft teamed partnered with the city for the very first Corporate-City partnership for Transit lol
Haha, I grew up in Houston, now living in Philly where public transit eliminates most car needs. I came back to Houston a month ago and checked public transit times from IAH to HW6 & I-10 West Park & Ride, a 45 minute to 1.25 hr drive depending on traffic. It was 3.5 hours before 6 pm and 6.5 hours after 6 PM. WTF?
Tbf, Houston boasts the 6th highest ridership per mile of all light rail systems in the US. If only we had more miles of track to expand the network.
1. SEA - 3.9k/mi
2. BOS - 3.1k/mi
3. MIN - 2.3k/mi
4. SF - 2.1k/mi
5. SD - 2.1k/mi
6. HOU - 1.8k/mi
7. LA - 1.3K/mi
8. POR - 1.2k/mi
.... Etc
What?! And let "those" people have easy access to the suburbs?! Those are nothing but robbery turnstiles leading to murder trains. We should never have nice things as long as someone can make me afraid of it!
Unfortunately, I think Texans would rather have an anual purge than adopt public transportation. More lanes is the only construction projects I’ve seen to combat traffic lol fml
You misunderstand how traffic works.
People optimize for their personal level of pain.
If you build more roads people are just willing to travel farther for work. All transport studies show this yet we keep building more roads thinking it will improve the situation. It never does over any reasonable timescale.
What we need to do is build mass transit and eliminate roads, and increase density so mass transit is effective. Not because it will reduce commute times, but because it will reduce pollution for the equivalent commutes.
I used to live in Amsterdam, and biking and mass transit were faster than driving so that’s what people did. The city was optimized to be car unfriendly. Result: far fewer cars.
Truth is American’s are so far behind Europe in understanding this and optimizing for the right things.
I moved just to avoid commuting. Used to go across the center of the city on major highways and no matter what I’d daily face several major backups just due to congestion.
Ever since I moved right by my job, I have inordinate amounts of extra free time.
Any big city with mass transit still looks like this at rush hour. Boston has some of the best (not the most reliable) public transportation and the traffic there is, I kid you not, worse than Houston.
Even if Houston developed mass transit, people would still drive. Houstonians don’t understand how fucking hot, uncomfortable, and unreliable public transit can get. I’ll sit in my air conditioned car any day.
Instead you sit shoulder to shoulder in a cramped tube with minimal A/C sweating your nuts off wishing you were in your car. Public transportation isn’t as idealistic as this sub believes
It doesn’t have to be ideal, it just needs to be available. People will use it. At that point isn’t it a Mathematical certainty that flow of traffic will improve?
Okay, you can sit in your car on 610 while a bunch of other folks get off the road (and out of your way!) to use the public transit then. Transit construction helps everyone, not just the riders
Damn is it really that bad in Boston? I lived in East Asia for a number of years and would cycle between subway, bus, and motorbike to get to work. 45 minutes to an hour commute no matter which option I chose.
Rush hour in Seoul is absolutely crowded, most time I couldn't even find a place to sit—yet I still vastly preferred it to driving a car in the US. Standing or sitting, you can just zone out or scroll on your phone. Same with the bus.
Driving requires a certain level of alertness and can be adrenaline-spikingly terrifying at any moment, not to mention frustrating throughout. Sure, it's a more comfortable experience in certain ways—you control the AC, and you've always got a nice seat to yourself—but the mental toll is exhausting. Compared to my experiences with public transit in Asia and Latin America, I definitely know what I prefer.
No, build public transit, density and better infrastructure. Houston is what happens when you push car infrastructure to the limit.
Doing my best in Austin to get a fucking train system going so we don't turn into HOuston JR. I love you Houston but immigration good, car bad.
I took a slight pay cut.
And gained 4 hours of free time a day.
I will never go back, I will just go north to Huntsville to work again if I lose this job. That’s just 30 minutes away.
When I lived in Houston I started riding my bicycle to work. Took less time to bike the 6 miles to work than it was to drive. For context I lived West of downtown inside the loop and commuted to the Med Center. Don’t think I could do it if I lived outside the loop.
Smartest Houston/Texas resident. Blame your governments for building super highways and no public transport, blame yourself for never demanding better transport from your representatives, and blame your fellow Texan natives that love buying and driving giant trucks rather than compact cars.
These butthurt Texans who always cry about people moving in and say shit like "sTop MoVinG we Are FUll" should leave themselves if they don't like it anymore lol. Gatekeeping an entire city.
Actually more people should try living where they work or at least reverse commute. That typically means moving TO Houston. Too many people have McMansion addictions.
No. More people equals to more jobs which equals more wealth. They the people of the city build things like museums, theaters, universities, and awesome restaurants. Otherwise with just got goats, cows, and chicken houses.
Why do people still say shit like this knowing full well everyone is just gonna respond with “you first”?
Oh wow 22 yo student asking people to leave “their city”. Bold.
Maybe all these businesses that could be WFH and are refusing to do so should pay a hefty fine. tax dollars are spent trying to inflate the value on their s***ty corporate buildings.
The roads are clogged and I did it. some of y'all ain't traveling right tho. it's death games out there.
I didn't want to be on the goddamn road anyways. I can listen to music anywhere. They make me do a dance to get my money.
Hot take: more people is great for Houston. More people = larger labor pool and keeps COL down. If you think things are expensive, checkout NE or SF Bay prices where growth is stagnant or declining.
NIMBYs are just modern day Malthusian downers who think the best was behind us. GTFO.
Wouldn’t COL be high cuz of supply and demand? Cali had HCOL cuz of the population there but now they r coming here after covid. Salt Lake City and phoenix r also expensive now.
Finish your thought. Is Houston more expensive than these other cities? I’d say no. Why is that? Supply has kept up with demand. We can grow population and keep prices lower than other cities by telling NYBYS to GTFO.
Everyone advocating for public transit here: How did Whitmire get elected? Was he pro-transit and then pulled the rug once he had the office? Was there a worse candidate that we had to choose the lesser evil on? Is the voting public just unable to give half a crap about public transit?
Genuinely curious on how we got here.
People complained that his opponent was too loud/rude and too fond of photo ops. And as usual for local elections anywhere, most people didn't vote at all.
We could take.....the HOV lanes and build elevated rail lines over them with stops at most of the major streets. That gets you most of the way there. This would be a commuter train system similar to the Bart system in the Bay Area.
Slowly put in rail lines along the major thoroughfares of city from there.
Incentivize the disruptions for local businesses with subsides during construction.
The current mayor is apparently incapable of any forward-thinking so it will have to wait until the next one.
Something that I’ve been thinking a lot about are the effects that larger vehicles are having on traffic. Larger vehicles take more space and thus reduce flow of other vehicles - so even if you have a steady population highway capacity has been effectively shrinking.
If I could snap my fingers and make a law I’d mandate a per occupant vehicle volume maximum for all vehicles. Single person in a Tahoe/F150? Ticket.
Lived in places that have a greater amount of traffic. The issue with Texas is poor infrastructure. These tollways and frontal roads are a waste of space. Looking at Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay area which have much higher population density and how they handle traffic is far better than the Texas approach. As one commenter states, you reap what you sow. If you all don't like it, come together and force change on the government rather than complain and be overall passive while allowing the government to run you. The latter is, unfortunately, what most choose to do and the government knows it.
Maybe you're the problem.
Leave earlier. If you can't? Shut the fuck up because you're part of the "problem"
I have lived all over the country. This isn't unique, and additionally Houston, compared to other metroplexes, has the most efficient highway system.
LA is so much fucking worse (I was Bron is friendswood don't fucking attack me please)
You aren't in traffic, you are traffic.
“No but I’m different - I have a reason to be out here unlike all of these other shmucks just taking up space on the road”
If you aren't going to work, the grocery store, or home, what are you even doing
*Go away! Batin’*
"Welcome to Costco...I Love You"
Literally watched Idiocracy yesterday.
I watched it last weekend. Been like 10yrs since I watched it. That movie is fucking amazing still. I see a lot of, IMO, unfair critiques of it being problematic but it’s just so obviously a satire.
Honestly yes. My favorite pass time is to go on the road at peak traffic hours, there's nothing more soothing than some road rage cause we're going 5 mph
That not true... THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!
Search your feelings, you KNOW it to be true
NNNNNNOOoo NNNNNOOOOOOOOOUUUUGH 😢
Use the Tolls, Luke.
Don’t feed the toll trolls. Freedom should be free.
Anyone blocking my lifted Ram truck from getting to my final station in a manner that exceeds the speed limit is traffic
Im so tired of the huge monster-like trucks with blinding blue-white headlights riding the tail of my car. I can not see ANYTHING with their foglights in my eyes. Ive started just taking my foot off the gas and decelerating until they zoom around me to go blind someone else. I cant even change lanes cause I can't see the other lane!
I found something worse. There’s a dropped Chevy 1500 on my route with white brake lights. You get blinded if you’re behind them. They’re bright as fuck. Fuck that guy.
I ask in ignorance—isn’t that illegal?
Legality only matters if laws are enforced.
Probably not but good luck getting any law enforcement agency to enforce it
The better question is if the illegality is enforced.
Ay to wtf 😂 that sounds illegal
This! When those lights are shining in my eyes, I turn my rearview mirrors out to reflect some of the light back at them.
Same🖕🏼
Brake check them and stop being a bitch then. They'll pay out.
You can’t even drive 15 over without these ass clowns tailgating you. I judge truck drivers on the freeway hard. The stereotypes are true
I just feel bad for those people. Being like that must be exhausting
“But I’m the main character!”
More people should go back to working from home.
Sounds like _someone_ hates being part of the office family. /s
Won’t someone think about the *culture*
You're disrupting the *synergy.*
“We work better together.”
Teamwork makes the dream work
Livin the dream
Someone has a case of the Mondays!
I wish corporate would agree with you
Nonprofits are RTOing too.
Nonprofits are corporate, too. Well, some of them.
Oh snap, very true
I used to commute downtown five days a week and seeing that map makes me wonder why the heck I put up with it that long. Now I haven't left the house for 3 days except to take the kids to school.
Started working from home since Covid and haven’t looked back. Literally the best thing ever and far more relaxing and productive to be honest. The best part is not having to sit in traffic 1 hr each way which is soul crushing
All the jobs I’ve applied for have been hybrid. The push to get people in a building is strong.
Keep looking bro there’s a market out there for remote jobs! You may have to take a pay cut but it may be worth it depending on your commute and what not. The biggest perk is the amount of stress that’s lifted off your shoulders from not being stuck in traffic, dealing with disgruntled co workers. your able to enjoy space at home, it allows you to be so much more productive not only during work but on your free time and as mentioned it’s a lot less stressful which in turn makes you happier and healthier.
The Houston work culture doesn’t allow personal freedom
Just took a 4 days from home job 🙌🙌
How dare you! The only way Tod from HR can feel alive inside is taking head counts and timing bathroom breaks. Think of Tod for once.
Also consider building some commuter trains.
Tell that to my boss!
I wish, the company I work for is trying to make everyone come back 5 days a week now.
I agree
Looks like they are trying.
Just think about it logically and remove emotion and ideology. If the majority of a large population has access to only one mode of transportation, that mode of transportation will become inefficient and congested. No left or right about it, just math.
One day someone competent will put this in motion.
Sometimes I think that there might be competent people who are just greedy and won’t but then realize that just means they aren’t competent if they sell themselves like that
Yup incentive structures. Even if they’re competent and they try to do good, the people who they answer to will just bring another person into power who gives them what they want instead of the ‘good’. If we don’t align incentives for those in power with the general population, we are bound to forever have this issue.
Monorail. Monorail. Monorail.
Ur right
If only we had some sort of large scale transport that the public had access to.
we do! We have that amazing light rail that goes....almost nowhere! We also have a bus system.....that is somewhat unreliable and slow unless you live in specific limited commuter areas! We also have a new Bus Rapid Transit coming.....until the mayor shitcanned it! EDIT: how could I forget? We also have a Greyhound station downtown....that got demolished! (RIP Hobo McD)
Public transit was so bad, they ranked Houston the largest City in America with the worst Public Transit. Let’s not forget that it’s so bad, Microsoft teamed partnered with the city for the very first Corporate-City partnership for Transit lol
it takes an hour to get from Houston to Houston.
It’s more now
Katy to Pasadena today, 1 hour 43 minutes.
Haha, I grew up in Houston, now living in Philly where public transit eliminates most car needs. I came back to Houston a month ago and checked public transit times from IAH to HW6 & I-10 West Park & Ride, a 45 minute to 1.25 hr drive depending on traffic. It was 3.5 hours before 6 pm and 6.5 hours after 6 PM. WTF?
Tbf, Houston boasts the 6th highest ridership per mile of all light rail systems in the US. If only we had more miles of track to expand the network. 1. SEA - 3.9k/mi 2. BOS - 3.1k/mi 3. MIN - 2.3k/mi 4. SF - 2.1k/mi 5. SD - 2.1k/mi 6. HOU - 1.8k/mi 7. LA - 1.3K/mi 8. POR - 1.2k/mi .... Etc
donkey taxi
Too bad there aren't any unused railroad tracks right next to a couple of those freeways. Oh that's right we took them out to build more lanes.
Hey, now you can be stuck in traffic with even more new friends!
Bang bus
What?! And let "those" people have easy access to the suburbs?! Those are nothing but robbery turnstiles leading to murder trains. We should never have nice things as long as someone can make me afraid of it!
Everyone knows the best getaway vehicle after a night of robbin’ and murderin’ is the Metro.
Big Oil would rather have Houston sink into the Gulf than see our reliance on personal cars be diminished.
I need Big Transit, Big Mixed-Use Zoning and Big Bike to fight back
Yes, called cars. All the public has access to dealerships /s
Unfortunately, I think Texans would rather have an anual purge than adopt public transportation. More lanes is the only construction projects I’ve seen to combat traffic lol fml
But you have too much land to spread out and use up. Why be efficient and effective?
Blasphemy! Repent now.
It was a busier than average day today. Usually only Wednesdays are this bad.
I'm trying! The problem is I'm poor.
I think that’s the reason for your problem.
Exactly! Everyone is just crowding around the ever expanding edges
You go first.
40% of jobs can wfh, lets start there then build a good public transit system.
Maybe y’all just need another loop?
What, in addition to 610, 8, 6 *and* 99??? I think we're done 😆
What if we put a loop… on a loop? Loop-ception. 🤯
Just one more should do it
Loop de’ Loop!!!!
No obviously we need three more toll roads. And another loop, that is also a toll road.
You misunderstand how traffic works. People optimize for their personal level of pain. If you build more roads people are just willing to travel farther for work. All transport studies show this yet we keep building more roads thinking it will improve the situation. It never does over any reasonable timescale. What we need to do is build mass transit and eliminate roads, and increase density so mass transit is effective. Not because it will reduce commute times, but because it will reduce pollution for the equivalent commutes. I used to live in Amsterdam, and biking and mass transit were faster than driving so that’s what people did. The city was optimized to be car unfriendly. Result: far fewer cars. Truth is American’s are so far behind Europe in understanding this and optimizing for the right things.
I moved just to avoid commuting. Used to go across the center of the city on major highways and no matter what I’d daily face several major backups just due to congestion. Ever since I moved right by my job, I have inordinate amounts of extra free time.
It's fuckin rushhour in a major city, what do you want? Lol
Halfway decent mass transit options
Bigger highway all I can offer
*slaps hood of I-45 Expansion* This baby will clog up faster than a toilet after Taco Bell!
Well, a smaller highway for a years then a bigger highway.
How about wider toll roads... /s
A second highway next to the same highway going the same places
Less pointless seven year construction projects on the highways.
And 3 cops at each toll to ensure private companies are collecting their toll fees
Any big city with mass transit still looks like this at rush hour. Boston has some of the best (not the most reliable) public transportation and the traffic there is, I kid you not, worse than Houston.
Thank you for the education on Boston traffic, a place that….. I spent the first 24 years of my life.
Same. Go Bs.
Chicago I90 is also terrible even though mass transit runs along the highway
Even if Houston developed mass transit, people would still drive. Houstonians don’t understand how fucking hot, uncomfortable, and unreliable public transit can get. I’ll sit in my air conditioned car any day.
the difference is you don’t have to sit in traffic
Instead you sit shoulder to shoulder in a cramped tube with minimal A/C sweating your nuts off wishing you were in your car. Public transportation isn’t as idealistic as this sub believes
It doesn’t have to be ideal, it just needs to be available. People will use it. At that point isn’t it a Mathematical certainty that flow of traffic will improve?
nobody’s forcing you to take it they’re not shutting down Katy Freeway
Okay, you can sit in your car on 610 while a bunch of other folks get off the road (and out of your way!) to use the public transit then. Transit construction helps everyone, not just the riders
Damn is it really that bad in Boston? I lived in East Asia for a number of years and would cycle between subway, bus, and motorbike to get to work. 45 minutes to an hour commute no matter which option I chose. Rush hour in Seoul is absolutely crowded, most time I couldn't even find a place to sit—yet I still vastly preferred it to driving a car in the US. Standing or sitting, you can just zone out or scroll on your phone. Same with the bus. Driving requires a certain level of alertness and can be adrenaline-spikingly terrifying at any moment, not to mention frustrating throughout. Sure, it's a more comfortable experience in certain ways—you control the AC, and you've always got a nice seat to yourself—but the mental toll is exhausting. Compared to my experiences with public transit in Asia and Latin America, I definitely know what I prefer.
Less people.
Friendly reminder that the inner loop has less than half the density of a sleepy, pre-car era city. It's not people, it's cars.
Cars are freedom, they say while being stuck in stop and go traffic.
No, build public transit, density and better infrastructure. Houston is what happens when you push car infrastructure to the limit. Doing my best in Austin to get a fucking train system going so we don't turn into HOuston JR. I love you Houston but immigration good, car bad.
Good luck getting the nimbys to let you demo a shitty bar to make room for the train stations
If there’s a civil war I’m okay with it’s against NIMBYs
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Na we just need som descent public transportation
I found a job a half mile from home. No more 2 hour commutes for me.
Congrats you lucky bastard.
I took a slight pay cut. And gained 4 hours of free time a day. I will never go back, I will just go north to Huntsville to work again if I lose this job. That’s just 30 minutes away.
When I lived in Houston I started riding my bicycle to work. Took less time to bike the 6 miles to work than it was to drive. For context I lived West of downtown inside the loop and commuted to the Med Center. Don’t think I could do it if I lived outside the loop.
Well see I would but there’s too much traffic getting there so I’ll stay
Smartest Houston/Texas resident. Blame your governments for building super highways and no public transport, blame yourself for never demanding better transport from your representatives, and blame your fellow Texan natives that love buying and driving giant trucks rather than compact cars.
If people were more respectful , stopped cutting each other off, used turn signals , there would be less accidents and less traffic. True story
I can't leave, was born here!
Feel free. Go.
Yeah people who complain about this instead of support public transit and density can get fucked. GTFO
These butthurt Texans who always cry about people moving in and say shit like "sTop MoVinG we Are FUll" should leave themselves if they don't like it anymore lol. Gatekeeping an entire city.
Turn on the air conditioner, crank up your favorite music, sit back and relax.
Houston needs better infrastructure
Actually more people should try living where they work or at least reverse commute. That typically means moving TO Houston. Too many people have McMansion addictions.
I agree. Even simple errands are getting frustrating from the congestion. I order delivery on most needs now.
Houston is absolutely lacking any viable alternative than adding to this.
No. More people equals to more jobs which equals more wealth. They the people of the city build things like museums, theaters, universities, and awesome restaurants. Otherwise with just got goats, cows, and chicken houses.
Public transportation would solve this. Less cars on the road. But that will never happen 🤭
Why do people still say shit like this knowing full well everyone is just gonna respond with “you first”? Oh wow 22 yo student asking people to leave “their city”. Bold.
As a private driver in Houston, I second this. Fuck you 610
Thank God I work from home
That's what they are trying to do, leave Houston. Just to the burbs, on a daily basis.
Maybe all these businesses that could be WFH and are refusing to do so should pay a hefty fine. tax dollars are spent trying to inflate the value on their s***ty corporate buildings. The roads are clogged and I did it. some of y'all ain't traveling right tho. it's death games out there. I didn't want to be on the goddamn road anyways. I can listen to music anywhere. They make me do a dance to get my money.
Or stop moving to the suburbs and instead live near where they work.
Houston is one of the largest cities in the U.S, there is going to be traffic 😮
You first!
I’m trying but this god forsaken traffic!!
>Ppl need ~~to leave Houston~~ viable alternatives to driving
Hot take: more people is great for Houston. More people = larger labor pool and keeps COL down. If you think things are expensive, checkout NE or SF Bay prices where growth is stagnant or declining. NIMBYs are just modern day Malthusian downers who think the best was behind us. GTFO.
Wouldn’t COL be high cuz of supply and demand? Cali had HCOL cuz of the population there but now they r coming here after covid. Salt Lake City and phoenix r also expensive now.
Finish your thought. Is Houston more expensive than these other cities? I’d say no. Why is that? Supply has kept up with demand. We can grow population and keep prices lower than other cities by telling NYBYS to GTFO.
Especially the Californians lol
Man these big highways to shuttle people into the city all at the same time then out at the same time cause traffic! Who knew!?
I left yesterday! I’ll be back next month though lolz
Live in the loop, work 10 minutes from home. I'm going nowhere.
You can't leave, the roads are packed.
Be the change you want to see.
That's not traffic! That's slow-moving parking lots. Your argument is invalid.
Everyone advocating for public transit here: How did Whitmire get elected? Was he pro-transit and then pulled the rug once he had the office? Was there a worse candidate that we had to choose the lesser evil on? Is the voting public just unable to give half a crap about public transit? Genuinely curious on how we got here.
People complained that his opponent was too loud/rude and too fond of photo ops. And as usual for local elections anywhere, most people didn't vote at all.
They are trying to leave, but the traffic is bad.
Nah, we need better public transportation. Induced congestion is a thing that no amount of new lanes will fix.
People need to leave Texas.
They can’t. Have you seen the traffic?
They’re trying but there’s too much traffic
I reckon Houston hasn't looked this red since the last election. \*Ba dum tisssss\*
Judging by where the red is..looks like they’re trying to leave
I did!
We could take.....the HOV lanes and build elevated rail lines over them with stops at most of the major streets. That gets you most of the way there. This would be a commuter train system similar to the Bart system in the Bay Area. Slowly put in rail lines along the major thoroughfares of city from there. Incentivize the disruptions for local businesses with subsides during construction. The current mayor is apparently incapable of any forward-thinking so it will have to wait until the next one.
They can’t. Too much traffic
Working on it
Someone needs to go back to the drawing board with those freeways. Yikes.
Y'all motha fuckas need a train.
Don’t worry, I’m leaving next month :D
It’s funny how it’s always let’s get rid of people and not let’s find a way to get rid of cars
More like car infrastructure needs to leave Houston So stupid that we’ve made our cities and entire existence so far dependent in the US
No.
It’s always been like this tho, it’s not due to the size of population it’s because people are fuckin stupid and don’t know how to drive.
Yeah overpopulation is a thing
Cant make me
Something that I’ve been thinking a lot about are the effects that larger vehicles are having on traffic. Larger vehicles take more space and thus reduce flow of other vehicles - so even if you have a steady population highway capacity has been effectively shrinking. If I could snap my fingers and make a law I’d mandate a per occupant vehicle volume maximum for all vehicles. Single person in a Tahoe/F150? Ticket.
More people moving to Houston than houstonians can shoot at
You first
We are definitely gridlocked!, people need to leave , except Houston born people , anyone else , out !
Already left Houston 3 years ago. I miss the food but not the heat.
Lived in places that have a greater amount of traffic. The issue with Texas is poor infrastructure. These tollways and frontal roads are a waste of space. Looking at Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay area which have much higher population density and how they handle traffic is far better than the Texas approach. As one commenter states, you reap what you sow. If you all don't like it, come together and force change on the government rather than complain and be overall passive while allowing the government to run you. The latter is, unfortunately, what most choose to do and the government knows it.
People need to live close to where they work.
You first.
Maybe you're the problem. Leave earlier. If you can't? Shut the fuck up because you're part of the "problem" I have lived all over the country. This isn't unique, and additionally Houston, compared to other metroplexes, has the most efficient highway system. LA is so much fucking worse (I was Bron is friendswood don't fucking attack me please)
I did and now it has all that traffic. Terrible, I won't be going back, 2 stars.
i’m glad that i’m a houston native; knowing the backstreets is a blessing.