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I'll never understand (as a European) how come it is just so darn difficult for Americans to connect transportation hubs with high density areas. Metro from downtown to airports? Does Houston have this? Because I did not see it connect. Bus station connection? Rail station connection? HSR to San Antonio, or Dallas, or Austin? But huge overpasses and football stadium wide highways? No issues. Also, clogged. Because, you know, just one more lane will solve all issues, amirite?
Houstonian native! I've lived in Austin, Dallas and Houston! I tell people all the time Houston is really efficient from the park n rides that connect you to the burbs and can get very pack during rush hours. Keep in mind when you live in certain neighborhoods, the network has high frequency buses throughout, for example anything on Westheimer is golden because the bus runs 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week with high frequency. However people don't like the idea of the bus and prefer rails. Where as in Dallas they have rails but then the wait time is awful, especially for the bus connectors from the rail stations and on a Texas summer day you can feel the difference!
Thanks for sharing! We'll be doing an episode like this in Houston in early February (and we've done an Austin and San Antonio one already if you're interested!). Appreciate the context from someone who lives in Houston on the park and rides too. It did seem like they would have better usage than one might think.
Hi! I’ve lived in Houston for 7 years and without a car. Houstonians widely support density and better transit HOWEVER until last year suburbs had a disproportionate amount of power and prevented Houston’s transit from expanding Sadly our pro transit mayor changed to Whitmire soon after and he’s been useless
Interesting backstory to Metrorail: Back in the 2000s city leaders were trying to wow the US Olympic Committee with a "build it and they will come" bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. They knew the city was transit-deficicient, so part of this effort was the Red Line, which connected the new sports facilities that were also built around the same time -- NRG Stadium, Minute Maid Park and Toyota Center. Ultimately, this wasn't impressive enough, and the US bid was awarded to New York City, which ultimately lost to London as everyone knows. But, the legacy of the failed Olympic bid is light rail in a city that only had buses before. And the city has been equipped to host other big sporting events like Super Bowls and Final Fours.
@@CurrentlyVince In a related vein, I don't recall any discussions about Houston making a bid for the 2036 games. Perhaps they have been told not to bother. There could be no better games for Houston to host in this century than 2036.
I like this video as a Houstonian, as it shines light onto the bus and rail system we have in the city. Hopefully, we can improve our transportation system and make it more accessible for everyone.
man I like Houston. Good transit (with a lot of room to improve!), great museums, great food, affordable housing, tons of jobs - it's a really cool city.
for me, Houston having 3 rail lines is like going to the moon. If Houston can do it, anyone can. But seriously, the traffic in Houston is absurd. Why people will spend 4 hours a day in their car commuting is mind boggling. Houston is very large and thus can support a pretty decent transit system. And at the same time I can say it has lived up to its reputation for following the car capitol of the world, Los Angeles. By the way you missed the Museum district near Rice University. Also, Memorial park is another nice area. But always remember one thing about Houston, it always floods. If you have to live there always make sure to live above the first floor. Yes, Montrose is very nice and Houston as a whole is very diverse.
People have a choice on commute times. The average commute time for the metro area is 30 minutes. 30 minutes has been the rough estimated historical commute average since the pedestrian commutes of ancient Rome. Re: Houston: "58% of the workers travel 29 minutes or less to their respective places of employment. 34% of the workers in Houston have a commute time of 30 to 59 minutes. The remaining 8% of workers have a commute time of 60 minutes or more."
Great video, I’m so happy to see y’all here! Houston within the 610 loop is dense, diverse, and has decent transit for Texas. The urban sprawl that surrounds Houston is very very different and car dependent. It’s a shame that the mayor and his buddies seem to be doubling down on the car culture, but I think Houston is diverse enough to maintain and carry on the liberal housing and transit/mobility initiatives that make the city unique
We even see the same with other transit areas such as Bay Area where SF has amazing transit and then outside of it is car dependent sprawl. Heck it’s even the same with New York, and definitely many cities in Australia.
I sometimes park in the paid garage in Rice Village then walk over to the Rice University/Hermann Park stop if I want to ride into downtown for some reason. It would also be feasible to park in downtown Houston and ride the train over to the University of Houston for a Cougar Football game because near-campus parking is a nightmare on game days.
I got one of the first 500 copies that is supposed to arrive any day now! Very curious to actually put my hands on it and see what we will be able to do. We may try to do some more casual Austin events next year, if you are not following us on socials keep an eye out if you are interested! Thanks for watching! -Louis
Awesome video! My company worked with METRO on realigning their bus network services a few years back (introducing a lot of those "Frequent Service" routes). They were committed to providing reliable service where the data showed they had the most ridership. Bummed to hear about the cuts to the BRT, though
Regarding that highway "expansion" project on the east side - it is not simply an expansion project. TxDOT is re-routing I-45 to follow along with sections of I-69 and I-10 around downtown instead of the downtown area route it currently follows.
This is in the works! We are doing an event with DATA in Dallas on February 1st and will be filming Dallas Using ONLY Public Transit probably the day before. Those ones take a bit to edit, so expect it sometime later in February! Kansas City is definitely also happening next year. Others will likely be added to the list as well if we can make it happen.
My wife is from Houston (The Heights). I've been visiting occasionally for about a decade, and it's really impressive to see how much improvement has been made, with buses, the light rail, and cycling in just that relatively short time. Walking? Walking ain't so great. The sidewalks in many areas are absolutely terrible. And cars still rule much of the city, so trying to cross roads is scary and dangerous. Plus, people drive like absolute maniacs. I mean, it's not as bad as Nashville or Boston. But it's pretty bad. I'm hoping the light rail expands to where more normal, working class folks live. But at least the bus system is much better than it used to be. That sucks about the bike share. Man, sounds like the mayor is a real turd. I think they had a much better leadership team for a while. Sad to hear that's changed.
I love what you're doing here with these videos! And great route visuals with google earth. How do you get google earth to display transit routes like that? Pretty cool
It's a mix of google earth studio and google my maps. You have to draw on the transit routes manually though. Still working on making them better but this works for now! Thanks for watching. -Louis
Thanks for watching! Yeah no bike share definitely a bummer... I love using bikes to get around new cities. If you are transit savvy, you should be able to swing a visit using mostly public transit and an occasional uber/lyft when necessary or if you are venturing further out, etc...
Visited Houston from OKC rode the Red Line line to a venue and the vibe was way different then during the middle of the day lol. While the frequency is pretty good, the thing is stupidly slow moving. DART is definitely a better system to me but I’m glad Houston has a system they could build off of, if they had the adequate leadership…
Cool video, it would be fun if you guys chose a random destination and then had to find the transit options to take you there. Great to see the frequencies on Houston's network, but the coverage is dicey. The rail seems only usable for a fraction of the sprawling population. These days poverty has been "suburbanizing", so I wonder what it is like trying to get to or from work on the fringe of town.
If the stops had AC then I would take these types of transportation. It just is so unbearably hot here most of the year. I would show up to places drenched. Unfortunately I prefer my car AC. 😢
Y’all should come visit Fort Worth! We’re pretty far behind Dallas, Austin, and Houston as far as transit and attempted zoning reforms, but I’d love for a grassroots urbanist movement to take hold here.
It's great to see more public rail infrastructure being constructed around the country. When, historically, very car centric cities like Los Angeles start building public rail infrastructure, it helps other cities to realize that improving public rail infrastructure is possible even in the most car centric city in the USA. That's a good thing for all of us. However, all cities need more federal funding to expand faster.
Absolutely! Our last episode of this year which comes out on the 31st, we actually will be taking a look at new transit projects expected to open in 2025. LA gets mentioned as they are actually doing a TON at the moment.
@TransitTangents Very cool. Yes, 2025/2026 will be transformational for LA Metro. As a native Angeleno, I can't wait. I'm still hoping the LAX Skylink opens in late 2025 instead of early 2026.
Metro rail is more than 2 decades old. It’s not new and is in fact one of the older of this type of light rail. People are just uneducated and ignorant and like leaning into memeing on “hurr durr Houston” (see: these two goofballs not realizing this isn’t a surprise).
I really wish our rail system extended all the way to IAH (Intercontinental Airport) or at least HOU (Hobby Airport)....it's more likely the line will be extended to Hobby (HOU) first and I think that is in the eventual plans.
Loving the video up until the Whitmer part. The mayor (from hell) of Houston is John Whitmire, not Whitmer. The second syllable is pronounced like mire as in “mired in controversy.”
My Birthplace is Houston. After moving to Atlanta in 1995 and experiencing MARTA, I would never move back to Houston. A good rail system is essential for me. In 2010, after losing my job in Atlanta, I moved to Dallas. I fell in love with the DART system. It was even better than MARTA. In 2026, the DFW Metro will have 95 miles of light rail and 76 miles of computer rail. Rail transit to both Airports. Houston is way behind in its rail infrastructure.
Definitely agree that there is still plenty of work to be done in Houston. Keep an eye out for an episode like this in Dallas sometime in February next year. Atlanta may happen too, we'll see. Thanks for watching!
Nice to know Houston has frequent headways on vehicles and some good transit oriented development going for it. My impression had been Dallas was the more transit oriented city in TX and having visited Houston as a kid my memories of it was more suburban and having to drive everywhere, even parts of the downtown core.
You can honestly get a bit further in Dallas on transit but Houston is up and coming quickly. The frequency is better in Houston but Dallas has just implemented better frequency on rail this past month
Appreciate the suggestions! Right now Dallas and Kansas City will definitely happen in 2025, but we are trying to add more to the list. I like the idea of doing something in Florida so we can try to ride Brightline as well. I have family near Charlotte too so that could work! Baltimore has also been requested before as well.... Thanks for watching! -Louis
Spent a few days in Houston at the beginning of December. The light rail frequency is impressive with 6 minute headways and decent speed. The obvious next step for the city is to increase the number of lines and stations. For one of the largest cities in the United States it is a little disappointing when you see the coverage of an area even as dense as the core of the city. They don't even have a reliable rail connection to the airport, something I can at least day my home city of Dallas has for both our airports despite all our problems.
Houston sucks for mass transit. Like, it is used as an EXAMPLE city of too many highways and too little mass transit. It's bad. Did you try taking that "awesome" metro to the airport? IAH? Hobby? Is the transit consolidated? As in, one ticket for bus or metro? And so on. How about the stations -- have you tried the open air stations during summer (or spring, or fall) months in Houston? It's only, like, 50C outside, or something. Bring lots of water or you will melt. Many station don't even have the shade from the Sun, which means you could REALLY be baking in 50C. Also, most of those buses are stuck in the very same car traffic, providing no benefits to commuters, in terms of time. Also, those few bike lanes disappear abruptly, many are only marked on the roads with lots of traffic, etc. You know a good measure of GOOD bike infrastructure? Here -- would you let your 10 year old use it? No? Didn't think so. Neither would I. It's *not good.* Finally, what you "explored" was maybe just the central part of inside 610 -- barely even scratched Houston. There are two more loops -- 8 and 6. And they cover an area really, really big. With lots and lots of people. Whose only choice is car.
there trying toget the astrodome declared of historical signifivance because ut is the first covered stadium anywhere in the world butif falling apart because of old age.
It was declared historical several years back. It cannot be demolished. They’re trying to find plans for it that preserve its structure and add to the NRG Park in a good way.
The US Sunbelt cities have some of the most pitiful urban infrastructure and services of any similar sized city anywhere else in the world. It's quite depressing and shameful and will no doubt get much worse under President Musk who absolutely despises public transit vehicles that hold more than 4 people and don't travel in tiny tunnels that don't go anywhere. These are desperate times for US urbanists and transit enthusiasts. As a Canadian I really feel sad about the whole situation south of here. Keep up the great vids and the fight.
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I work for METRO here in Houston as a transit planner! I’m so happy to see that you guys are impressed with our system!
Thanks for watching! We'd love to do more content in Houston. Reach out! We'd love to connect.
Can you come to Connecticut and PLEASE fix our mess that we call our public transit system which isn’t even a system it’s a jumbled mess.
I'll never understand (as a European) how come it is just so darn difficult for Americans to connect transportation hubs with high density areas.
Metro from downtown to airports? Does Houston have this? Because I did not see it connect.
Bus station connection? Rail station connection? HSR to San Antonio, or Dallas, or Austin?
But huge overpasses and football stadium wide highways? No issues. Also, clogged. Because, you know, just one more lane will solve all issues, amirite?
The tearing down of those apartments was pretty sad to see ... for a Highway expansion in a city that definitely does not need more highway lanes.
Reverse progression! Brought to you by many parts of Texas ™️
It is primarily the re-routing of I-45 and not a typical expansion project.
Would you prefer the current highways separating the west side from downtown continues to exist? You’re absolutely clueless
Houstonian native! I've lived in Austin, Dallas and Houston! I tell people all the time Houston is really efficient from the park n rides that connect you to the burbs and can get very pack during rush hours. Keep in mind when you live in certain neighborhoods, the network has high frequency buses throughout, for example anything on Westheimer is golden because the bus runs 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week with high frequency. However people don't like the idea of the bus and prefer rails. Where as in Dallas they have rails but then the wait time is awful, especially for the bus connectors from the rail stations and on a Texas summer day you can feel the difference!
Thanks for sharing! We'll be doing an episode like this in Houston in early February (and we've done an Austin and San Antonio one already if you're interested!). Appreciate the context from someone who lives in Houston on the park and rides too. It did seem like they would have better usage than one might think.
Hi! I’ve lived in Houston for 7 years and without a car. Houstonians widely support density and better transit
HOWEVER until last year suburbs had a disproportionate amount of power and prevented Houston’s transit from expanding
Sadly our pro transit mayor changed to Whitmire soon after and he’s been useless
Interesting backstory to Metrorail: Back in the 2000s city leaders were trying to wow the US Olympic Committee with a "build it and they will come" bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. They knew the city was transit-deficicient, so part of this effort was the Red Line, which connected the new sports facilities that were also built around the same time -- NRG Stadium, Minute Maid Park and Toyota Center. Ultimately, this wasn't impressive enough, and the US bid was awarded to New York City, which ultimately lost to London as everyone knows. But, the legacy of the failed Olympic bid is light rail in a city that only had buses before. And the city has been equipped to host other big sporting events like Super Bowls and Final Fours.
Didn't know this! Thanks for watching and sharing. -Louis
@@CurrentlyVince In a related vein, I don't recall any discussions about Houston making a bid for the 2036 games. Perhaps they have been told not to bother. There could be no better games for Houston to host in this century than 2036.
I like this video as a Houstonian, as it shines light onto the bus and rail system we have in the city. Hopefully, we can improve our transportation system and make it more accessible for everyone.
man I like Houston. Good transit (with a lot of room to improve!), great museums, great food, affordable housing, tons of jobs - it's a really cool city.
DRAGGING THE CONE REALLY SENT ME 10:37
how do you be that ignorant 😞
for me, Houston having 3 rail lines is like going to the moon. If Houston can do it, anyone can. But seriously, the traffic in Houston is absurd. Why people will spend 4 hours a day in their car commuting is mind boggling. Houston is very large and thus can support a pretty decent transit system. And at the same time I can say it has lived up to its reputation for following the car capitol of the world, Los Angeles. By the way you missed the Museum district near Rice University. Also, Memorial park is another nice area. But always remember one thing about Houston, it always floods. If you have to live there always make sure to live above the first floor. Yes, Montrose is very nice and Houston as a whole is very diverse.
People have a choice on commute times. The average commute time for the metro area is 30 minutes. 30 minutes has been the rough estimated historical commute average since the pedestrian commutes of ancient Rome.
Re: Houston:
"58% of the workers travel 29 minutes or less to their respective places of employment. 34% of the workers in Houston have a commute time of 30 to 59 minutes. The remaining 8% of workers have a commute time of 60 minutes or more."
Great video, I’m so happy to see y’all here! Houston within the 610 loop is dense, diverse, and has decent transit for Texas. The urban sprawl that surrounds Houston is very very different and car dependent. It’s a shame that the mayor and his buddies seem to be doubling down on the car culture, but I think Houston is diverse enough to maintain and carry on the liberal housing and transit/mobility initiatives that make the city unique
Thanks for watching!
We even see the same with other transit areas such as Bay Area where SF has amazing transit and then outside of it is car dependent sprawl. Heck it’s even the same with New York, and definitely many cities in Australia.
3:06 man this would've been very useful if **SIX FLAGS ASTROWORLD STILL EXISTED**
I sometimes park in the paid garage in Rice Village then walk over to the Rice University/Hermann Park stop if I want to ride into downtown for some reason. It would also be feasible to park in downtown Houston and ride the train over to the University of Houston for a Cougar Football game because near-campus parking is a nightmare on game days.
Love watching your videos! As someone who loves Jet Lag and lives in the Austin area, I'd be super interested to see how you guys play the game here.
I got one of the first 500 copies that is supposed to arrive any day now! Very curious to actually put my hands on it and see what we will be able to do. We may try to do some more casual Austin events next year, if you are not following us on socials keep an eye out if you are interested! Thanks for watching! -Louis
Awesome video! My company worked with METRO on realigning their bus network services a few years back (introducing a lot of those "Frequent Service" routes). They were committed to providing reliable service where the data showed they had the most ridership. Bummed to hear about the cuts to the BRT, though
Regarding that highway "expansion" project on the east side - it is not simply an expansion project. TxDOT is re-routing I-45 to follow along with sections of I-69 and I-10 around downtown instead of the downtown area route it currently follows.
Great episode! Would love to see Dallas by transit someday
This is in the works! We are doing an event with DATA in Dallas on February 1st and will be filming Dallas Using ONLY Public Transit probably the day before. Those ones take a bit to edit, so expect it sometime later in February! Kansas City is definitely also happening next year. Others will likely be added to the list as well if we can make it happen.
My wife is from Houston (The Heights). I've been visiting occasionally for about a decade, and it's really impressive to see how much improvement has been made, with buses, the light rail, and cycling in just that relatively short time. Walking? Walking ain't so great. The sidewalks in many areas are absolutely terrible. And cars still rule much of the city, so trying to cross roads is scary and dangerous. Plus, people drive like absolute maniacs. I mean, it's not as bad as Nashville or Boston. But it's pretty bad.
I'm hoping the light rail expands to where more normal, working class folks live. But at least the bus system is much better than it used to be.
That sucks about the bike share. Man, sounds like the mayor is a real turd. I think they had a much better leadership team for a while. Sad to hear that's changed.
Another great video guys :) really love these
Thanks for watching! More cities to come in 2025 🙌
I love what you're doing here with these videos! And great route visuals with google earth. How do you get google earth to display transit routes like that? Pretty cool
It's a mix of google earth studio and google my maps. You have to draw on the transit routes manually though. Still working on making them better but this works for now! Thanks for watching. -Louis
The 82 Route down Westheimer is the busiest bus route in the state
I spoke to one of the Ladies that talk on the announcements for the Houston MetroRail
Going to visit Houston later in December. This video helps to understand how to get around, thank you! But no bikeshare is a real bummer.
Thanks for watching! Yeah no bike share definitely a bummer... I love using bikes to get around new cities. If you are transit savvy, you should be able to swing a visit using mostly public transit and an occasional uber/lyft when necessary or if you are venturing further out, etc...
The messed up part is… There was bike share and Metro deemed it not worth the upkeep. We can’t have anything nice in Houston.
Visited Houston from OKC rode the Red Line line to a venue and the vibe was way different then during the middle of the day lol. While the frequency is pretty good, the thing is stupidly slow moving. DART is definitely a better system to me but I’m glad Houston has a system they could build off of, if they had the adequate leadership…
Also LOL at the person driving with a orange traffic cone under there car that definitely sums up their driving in a nutshell
@@BigFemto1 Thanks for watching! And yeah I was glad to have caught that lol....
Cool video, it would be fun if you guys chose a random destination and then had to find the transit options to take you there. Great to see the frequencies on Houston's network, but the coverage is dicey. The rail seems only usable for a fraction of the sprawling population. These days poverty has been "suburbanizing", so I wonder what it is like trying to get to or from work on the fringe of town.
chris needs to watch citynerd!
Texas southern university also is serviced but the university of houston station
red line gang!!
I still can't get over the frequencies on it! At least while we were there, it was so good haha.... -Louis
If the stops had AC then I would take these types of transportation. It just is so unbearably hot here most of the year. I would show up to places drenched. Unfortunately I prefer my car AC. 😢
Y’all should come visit Fort Worth! We’re pretty far behind Dallas, Austin, and Houston as far as transit and attempted zoning reforms, but I’d love for a grassroots urbanist movement to take hold here.
Yep, the scooters aren’t legal in Houston. The new mayor isn’t that likeable. The Silver line has so much potential if it was connected to downtown.
It's great to see more public rail infrastructure being constructed around the country.
When, historically, very car centric cities like Los Angeles start building public rail infrastructure, it helps other cities to realize that improving public rail infrastructure is possible even in the most car centric city in the USA. That's a good thing for all of us. However, all cities need more federal funding to expand faster.
Absolutely! Our last episode of this year which comes out on the 31st, we actually will be taking a look at new transit projects expected to open in 2025. LA gets mentioned as they are actually doing a TON at the moment.
@TransitTangents Very cool. Yes, 2025/2026 will be transformational for LA Metro. As a native Angeleno, I can't wait. I'm still hoping the LAX Skylink opens in late 2025 instead of early 2026.
Metro rail is more than 2 decades old. It’s not new and is in fact one of the older of this type of light rail. People are just uneducated and ignorant and like leaning into memeing on “hurr durr Houston” (see: these two goofballs not realizing this isn’t a surprise).
I really wish our rail system extended all the way to IAH (Intercontinental Airport) or at least HOU (Hobby Airport)....it's more likely the line will be extended to Hobby (HOU) first and I think that is in the eventual plans.
This channel deserves fare more subscribers. This is an excellent resource for anyone who’s interested in public transport in the US.
Loving the video up until the Whitmer part. The mayor (from hell) of Houston is John Whitmire, not Whitmer. The second syllable is pronounced like mire as in “mired in controversy.”
Apologies lol.
My Birthplace is Houston. After moving to Atlanta in 1995 and experiencing MARTA, I would never move back to Houston. A good rail system is essential for me. In 2010, after losing my job in Atlanta, I moved to Dallas. I fell in love with the DART system. It was even better than MARTA. In 2026, the DFW Metro will have 95 miles of light rail and 76 miles of computer rail. Rail transit to both Airports. Houston is way behind in its rail infrastructure.
Definitely agree that there is still plenty of work to be done in Houston. Keep an eye out for an episode like this in Dallas sometime in February next year. Atlanta may happen too, we'll see. Thanks for watching!
Nice to know Houston has frequent headways on vehicles and some good transit oriented development going for it. My impression had been Dallas was the more transit oriented city in TX and having visited Houston as a kid my memories of it was more suburban and having to drive everywhere, even parts of the downtown core.
You can honestly get a bit further in Dallas on transit but Houston is up and coming quickly. The frequency is better in Houston but Dallas has just implemented better frequency on rail this past month
Snack zone babyyyy! 🙌
Y'all should do these cities:
St. Petersburg, FL
Tampa, FL
Atlanta, GA
Charlotte, NC
Baltimore, MD
Appreciate the suggestions! Right now Dallas and Kansas City will definitely happen in 2025, but we are trying to add more to the list. I like the idea of doing something in Florida so we can try to ride Brightline as well. I have family near Charlotte too so that could work! Baltimore has also been requested before as well.... Thanks for watching! -Louis
Spent a few days in Houston at the beginning of December. The light rail frequency is impressive with 6 minute headways and decent speed. The obvious next step for the city is to increase the number of lines and stations. For one of the largest cities in the United States it is a little disappointing when you see the coverage of an area even as dense as the core of the city. They don't even have a reliable rail connection to the airport, something I can at least day my home city of Dallas has for both our airports despite all our problems.
Houston sucks for mass transit. Like, it is used as an EXAMPLE city of too many highways and too little mass transit. It's bad.
Did you try taking that "awesome" metro to the airport? IAH? Hobby?
Is the transit consolidated? As in, one ticket for bus or metro? And so on.
How about the stations -- have you tried the open air stations during summer (or spring, or fall) months in Houston? It's only, like, 50C outside, or something. Bring lots of water or you will melt. Many station don't even have the shade from the Sun, which means you could REALLY be baking in 50C.
Also, most of those buses are stuck in the very same car traffic, providing no benefits to commuters, in terms of time.
Also, those few bike lanes disappear abruptly, many are only marked on the roads with lots of traffic, etc. You know a good measure of GOOD bike infrastructure? Here -- would you let your 10 year old use it? No? Didn't think so. Neither would I. It's *not good.*
Finally, what you "explored" was maybe just the central part of inside 610 -- barely even scratched Houston. There are two more loops -- 8 and 6. And they cover an area really, really big. With lots and lots of people. Whose only choice is car.
15:06 Chris is just not cultured enough for true fine high class American dining establishments... Smh
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there trying toget the astrodome declared of historical signifivance because ut is the first covered stadium anywhere in the world butif falling apart because of old age.
It was declared historical several years back. It cannot be demolished. They’re trying to find plans for it that preserve its structure and add to the NRG Park in a good way.
The US Sunbelt cities have some of the most pitiful urban infrastructure and services of any similar sized city anywhere else in the world. It's quite depressing and shameful and will no doubt get much worse under President Musk who absolutely despises public transit vehicles that hold more than 4 people and don't travel in tiny tunnels that don't go anywhere. These are desperate times for US urbanists and transit enthusiasts. As a Canadian I really feel sad about the whole situation south of here. Keep up the great vids and the fight.
Were the homeless bothering y’all
they are trams not trains