Complete phase 2 of this great project. I literally only bought my house 3 blocks from shepherd because I knew it would be reconstructed away from the terrible roadway it has always been. I want a corridor that is part of my neighborhood not divides neighborhoods
People already CAN "choose how they get around"... and they've chosen CARS. Houston is entirely to big and too sprawling and too crowded--and too HOT for "commuting" by bike. And always will be. And anyone who WANTS to ride their bike here or there already CAN and already DOES. (I ride 100 to 200+ miles a week in Houston... every week.) What ACTUAL cyclists (like me) ACTUALLY want in Houston is not bullshit like this project... it's BETTER ROADS IN GENERAL. Fix the potholes and giant cracks and seems in ALL the roads--that cause thousands of bike crashes a year in Houston FIRST... then we can talk about some other shit.
Reducing lanes means less potholes and more money to fix potholes…Also, this is a local issue for the neigborhood of a few thousand. NOT 5 million idiot.
"It's pretty clear that just about everybody in Houston wants to see this project completed" (2:19) Uh... clear to who? Have polled 5 million people personally? And "completed" doesn't mean "any way YOU want it completed. If you asked "everybody in Houston" how THEY would like to see Shepherd and Durham renovated--you would get 5 million different answers. But, yeah, at this point I'd rather see NOTHING happen then see them fvck it up entirely by chopping up the lanes, adding a bunch of retarded road furniture, and creating shit tons of current and future traffic. Who cares of they lose the money? It's not Houston taxpayer money anyway... and it's all BORROWED MONEY. The federal government is 35 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT--and handing out BILLIONS of dollars for projects like this all over the country is one of the many reasons why.
Complete phase 2 of this great project. I literally only bought my house 3 blocks from shepherd because I knew it would be reconstructed away from the terrible roadway it has always been. I want a corridor that is part of my neighborhood not divides neighborhoods
People already CAN "choose how they get around"... and they've chosen CARS. Houston is entirely to big and too sprawling and too crowded--and too HOT for "commuting" by bike. And always will be. And anyone who WANTS to ride their bike here or there already CAN and already DOES. (I ride 100 to 200+ miles a week in Houston... every week.) What ACTUAL cyclists (like me) ACTUALLY want in Houston is not bullshit like this project... it's BETTER ROADS IN GENERAL. Fix the potholes and giant cracks and seems in ALL the roads--that cause thousands of bike crashes a year in Houston FIRST... then we can talk about some other shit.
Reducing lanes means less potholes and more money to fix potholes…Also, this is a local issue for the neigborhood of a few thousand. NOT 5 million idiot.
"It's pretty clear that just about everybody in Houston wants to see this project completed" (2:19) Uh... clear to who? Have polled 5 million people personally? And "completed" doesn't mean "any way YOU want it completed. If you asked "everybody in Houston" how THEY would like to see Shepherd and Durham renovated--you would get 5 million different answers. But, yeah, at this point I'd rather see NOTHING happen then see them fvck it up entirely by chopping up the lanes, adding a bunch of retarded road furniture, and creating shit tons of current and future traffic. Who cares of they lose the money? It's not Houston taxpayer money anyway... and it's all BORROWED MONEY. The federal government is 35 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT--and handing out BILLIONS of dollars for projects like this all over the country is one of the many reasons why.