[weegee]

And we want 7 mile commutes to slightly larger suburbs.

I've actually seen a "community" newspaper in Houston (sister publication to a paper that bills itself as the Upper Kirby Progressive) that took a position that improving highway commuter traffic flow was a bad thing because it would encourage more people to live farther out and also encourage more outside (outer 610-Loop) dwellers to come into town for commerce, dining, and fun. Funny how they don't put up the same resistance to incorporating outlying regions for tax dollars.

[razorback-bert]

When I lived in Houston, I went downtown only for HGO nights, into the garage and into the opera house. After the opera, into the garage and out to House of Pies.

Politics is the reason the new opera house was built downtown, instead of the Galleria area, where the patrons live.

I don't need downtowns, where their expensive parking,stores and food.