When business is good, the traffic is bad and vice verse.
Yes Rice Village. Anyone driving through that area can’t miss the huge yellow signs of the association the residents formed to fight the city over the high rise issue. I’ve been in the Houston area since 1985 and I have yet to see them deal with traffic movement or street changes before they add housing to accommodate hundreds of thousands more new people.
Traffic is a total nightmare on 59 and 610. I only go in now twice a week for meetings but try to never go during normal business hours. Except for parts of upper Kirby and around the mosque off of Richmond streets are really bad or in need of repair. Kind of a family joke that we have to have our tires balanced and front end aligned after driving on the city streets, unlike the suburbs where our streets are all maintained and we don’t have flooding during the rains.
If we have to evacuate again for a hurricane it’s going to be much, much worse than the evacuation for Rita or Ike, not only because of the traffic but because of all the new people who haven’t a clue as to what to do to get prepared. They learned during Rita that you just can’t put 3 million people on highways that can only handle 2 million. But with the passage of time and no hurricanes since Ike most of those hard learned lessons have been forgotten.