Mar 07 2006
Why are freeways so prominent inside of Houston
[tag]Houston[/tag]It seems to get anywhere in Houston you need to take a freeway to get there, can I asky why? A city the size of Houston does not need so many damn freeways, have you ever wondered why traffic is so bad here? Then look no further than the number of freeways within the city of Houston, freeways are designed to move masses of cars over long distances and when you throw in too many exits causing merge after merge, guess what happens to traffic flow? That problem is compounded by the number of stupid drivers that don’t understand the concept of merging here and the number of selfish people that try to make up time by zooming up a lane that is clear as it is about to merge.
Where are all the highways with monitored traffic lights to ensure the smooth flow of traffic?
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).
distract from the look of the city? like mammoth concrete skyways blacking out all light and killing everything around them?