Posted on 08/27/2022 5:37:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ve lived in Houston for most of my life, and there’s never been a time when I’ve reasonably been able to walk anywhere. Houston is practically the poster child for American urban sprawl — the landscape is dominated by spread-out neighborhoods with single-family homes and massive “stroads” (street-road hybrids with the worst aspects of both) lined with strip malls and expansive parking lots, connected by miles and miles of highways. It’s an environment designed to be solely traversed by car, not by foot.
That had a dramatic effect on the friends I could make, especially when I was younger and based in the city’s outer suburbs. Both of my parents worked, and without a car, if I missed my school bus home, I’d have to make the one-and-a-half-hour trek by foot under the hot Texas sun — forget easily going to the mall or the movies with my classmates.
College was eye-opening. I attended Texas A&M University, and spent most of my time in a denser, walkable campus environment that made it easy to meet and get to know people. I could start my day going to classes, then move to a dining hall, then the green space in front of my department building, and finally, the library — all without a car. It was easy to bump into friends, old and new, intentionally and by accident.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I forget. Is it Vox or is it Vice that publishes from a drug rehab hospital?
Well then the author should move to New York or San Francisco if they’re so unhappy in Texas. Or preferably Paris, where they have great mass transit and lots of “diversity”.
“Too many?”
Liberals believe themselves to be the arbiters of everything everywhere in perpetuity.
I think all the progressives should drive bicycles. Like Holland? The streets were already widened for your lies. Now ride bitches!
Atlanta
Baltimore
Camden
Charlotte
Chicago
Detroit
East St. Louis
Ferguson MO
Gary IN
Houston
Los Angeles
New Orleans
New York City
Newark NJ
Oakland
Philadelphia
Portland OR
San Francisco
Seattle
St. Louis
Trenton
Washington DC
etc.
Exactly the types of places you'd want a vehicle to escape from.
Another Agenda 21 piece.
Rural central Pennsylvania: Nearest neighbors’ houses are 1/4 mile away...walkable other than in snow season. Nearest stores/post offices are 5 mile round trip with some steep hills in between—serious, experienced, well trained bicyclists only...and no sidewalks to speak of.
Love hearing the wild turkeys and watching the white-tails graze.
Why doesn’t this sand maggot take public transit, a bicycle or even get himself a camel? They come to the USA from shithole countries and then complain how bad it is here. They can always move to that utopian Gaza Strip where no one needs a car. /spit
Dense housing areas susceptible to being “heat islands”
Will be fried by globull warming.
Need more people in rural areas to survive.
The rich have places away from everyone.
They know racking and stacking people in a confined area like an urban city, causes stress and conflict and violence and theft.
They want this to occur.
I live in Houston and have lived in Causeway Bay Hong Kong, the most crowded and walkable neighborhood on Earth.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both.
I would add that the political and cultural shift toward more urbanized living in the U.S. was set back at least 50 years by all the ludicrous government-imposed lockdowns and other COVID-related restrictions.
Move to Tucson - very bicycle friendly.
Brush up on your Spaniglish for muggers....
“Muizz Akhtar”
If he doesn’t like Houston, he should go home.
I love having a car, great way to get the hell away from annoying humans.
I was born and raised in Houston and if I had to walk somewhere I walked, and I walked in many parts of Houston and for miles at a time.
When they say walk friendly I think they mean rebuild everything for them and to heck with the cars, they want esthetics that pleases their minor activity.
Houston is a busy place.
The goal is not to force people to drive electric cars. The goal is to force most people to live in high density apartments and use mass transit.
Then rich liberals will be able to drive around in electric cars and not have to worry about getting stuck in traffic.
“Drive fast, the life you save might be your own.” — Rodney Dangerfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAEkGZ37l_4
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