Comments on: Why are freeways so prominent inside of Houston http://jasonbainbridge.com/2006/03/07/why-are-freeways-so-prominent-inside-of-houston/ The musings of an Aussie geek stuck in Texas working as an expatriate in software development and support. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 By: dane http://jasonbainbridge.com/2006/03/07/why-are-freeways-so-prominent-inside-of-houston/comment-page-1/#comment-560 dane Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:08:51 +0000 http://jasonbainbridge.com/2006/03/07/why-are-freeways-so-prominent-inside-of-houston/#comment-560 distract from the look of the city? like mammoth concrete skyways blacking out all light and killing everything around them? distract from the look of the city? like mammoth concrete skyways blacking out all light and killing everything around them?

]]> By: Stephan http://jasonbainbridge.com/2006/03/07/why-are-freeways-so-prominent-inside-of-houston/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Stephan Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:50:23 +0000 http://jasonbainbridge.com/2006/03/07/why-are-freeways-so-prominent-inside-of-houston/#comment-542 Being a Houston native I can tell you it's always been this way. The civil engineers in this city feel like the way to solve the traffic problem is to add more lanes, when in reality the way to solve it is to have public transportation. The problem with that is the places like Sugar Land (where I'm from), Post Oak, etc. are rich and snobby and don't want anything that might bring a "lesser" element into their parts of town. We could have easily had an EL type system in this town, but no one wants to spend the money and no one wants it to distract from the look of their city (which it doesn't). Being a Houston native I can tell you it’s always been this way. The civil engineers in this city feel like the way to solve the traffic problem is to add more lanes, when in reality the way to solve it is to have public transportation.

The problem with that is the places like Sugar Land (where I’m from), Post Oak, etc. are rich and snobby and don’t want anything that might bring a “lesser” element into their parts of town. We could have easily had an EL type system in this town, but no one wants to spend the money and no one wants it to distract from the look of their city (which it doesn’t).

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