 Houston rail system? |
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| Houston rail system? |
 Jun 11 2008, 10:28 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221  |
I dunno... Buda is starting to grow.
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Jun 11 2008, 10:30 AM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (Melanie @ Jun 11 2008, 11:22 AM)  oops, sorry. Houston isn't bad. DWF is a little too big for me. Too many freeways, and it's easy to get lost.
And I actually do like San Antonio. I just wish we were more pedestrian friendly. I hate Houston and Dallas. But I want to stay in Texas. Only way I'm moving to Austin is if I get into UT Law. |
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Jun 11 2008, 10:31 AM
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QUOTE (Melanie @ Jun 11 2008, 11:28 AM) I dunno... Buda is starting to grow. I've found one use for buda....going to my friend's land and getting wasted. Now buda is useless because I hate the guy and I don't really drink anymore Did they ever get around to installing running water down there? --------------------   |
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Jun 11 2008, 10:33 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
I have curly hair, Houston is humid... end of story.
There are more reasons why, but that seems to be my funniest reason why I refuse to live there. The freeway system here is pretty simple actually. And we have a bunch of roads that connect highways. Fredricksburg, Bandera (which is a horrible example but it does), Culebra, Wurzbach, Babcock, Callaghan, Wurzbach Parkway, Broadway, Military, Marbach. Those are just the major ones that I can think of off the top of my head. |
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Jun 11 2008, 10:35 AM
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You have a bunch of roads, which lead nearly head on to a bunch of other roads, making it mildly difficult for someone with common sense to navigate around the town without crashing head on in to oncoming traffic and getting killed
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Jun 11 2008, 10:38 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 531 Joined: 26-June 06 From: San Marcos and San Antonio Member No.: 221 |
*shrugs* I guess I do just fine. But I'm from here. I get really lost in Austin. I knew how to get to work and that's about it.
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Jun 11 2008, 10:40 AM
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New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (Melanie @ Jun 11 2008, 11:33 AM) I have curly hair, Houston is humid... end of story. Yeah, I mean I get the system, but I think it's ridiculous that I-10, I-35, I-37, and Highway 90 all merge together at some point. You have to be in the correct lane to stay on the highway you want to be on. It's very difficult for travelers. My parents drove to Dallas no problem, but were astonished by how much of a mess SA was when they came here last month. The only thing that makes sense there are the loops (and they have problems) and the roads that connect them, like Culebra and Patranco. Loop 410, though, is such a mess from construction that it really isn't even worth the supposed convenience. Loop 1604 isn't finished. I mean, really, it is a mess there.
There are more reasons why, but that seems to be my funniest reason why I refuse to live there. The freeway system here is pretty simple actually. And we have a bunch of roads that connect highways. Fredricksburg, Bandera (which is a horrible example but it does), Culebra, Wurzbach, Babcock, Callaghan, Wurzbach Parkway, Broadway, Military, Marbach. Those are just the major ones that I can think of off the top of my head. |
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Jun 11 2008, 10:41 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 2,329 Joined: 20-June 07 Member No.: 1,243 |
QUOTE (Melanie @ Jun 11 2008, 11:38 AM) *shrugs* I guess I do just fine. But I'm from here. I get really lost in Austin. I knew how to get to work and that's about it. I get lost in Austin because the street signs are faded and haven't been replaced in 20 years and the roads haven't been restriped since Bush was governor -------------------- |
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Jun 11 2008, 10:41 AM
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New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (Melanie @ Jun 11 2008, 11:38 AM) *shrugs* I guess I do just fine. But I'm from here. I get really lost in Austin. I knew how to get to work and that's about it. Austin has got to be the easiest city I have ever lived in/been to. I visited there my first time in Oct 2005, and I was able to drive around without a map or directions. The highway system is simple, and pretty much everything is off of the highways.
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Jun 11 2008, 10:55 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (Oasis @ Jun 11 2008, 11:41 AM) and the roads haven't been restriped since Bush was governor Idaho is worse. Fuck, I hated that place. -------------------- |
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Jun 11 2008, 11:26 AM
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I thought the DFW road system was decent while I lived there, especially if you were going east or west.
Houston has a smart system (with the rings around the city), there's just too many freakin' people. In Dallas most of the freeways were 3-lanes each way and only a few roads had HOV lanes. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Jun 12 2008, 06:49 PM
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QUOTE (Hartmann @ Jun 11 2008, 12:26 PM) I thought the DFW road system was decent while I lived there, especially if you were going east or west. Houston has a smart system (with the rings around the city), there's just too many freakin' people. In Dallas most of the freeways were 3-lanes each way and only a few roads had HOV lanes. They have added alot of miles of hov lanes in the past year. 635 has lanes from 35 to 30 and 75 has lanes from allen to high five. Also they are about to tear up 121/114 right around dfw airport and make it 4-5 lanes each way, its gonna be a mess until then |
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Jun 12 2008, 08:46 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 1,761 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Lubbock/Dubai Member No.: 57 |
any system would be great, the main problem is with trains in the US is once you get to the city you want to go to, you have no way of getting around.
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Jun 12 2008, 09:38 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 3,402 Joined: 23-February 06 From: PDX/TXL Member No.: 35 |
QUOTE (jwttu @ Jun 12 2008, 07:49 PM) They have added alot of miles of hov lanes in the past year. 635 has lanes from 35 to 30 and 75 has lanes from allen to high five. Also they are about to tear up 121/114 right around dfw airport and make it 4-5 lanes each way, its gonna be a mess until then Good to hear they're trying. I can't picture 121/114 getting any worse, then again, anything is possible. I used to live on 635 and thought it move pretty well until you headed west and people started forgetting how to drive. -------------------- "There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: that of the fashionable non-conformist." |
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Jun 12 2008, 09:48 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,761 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Lubbock/Dubai Member No.: 57 |
take out HOV lanes and build mass transit.......
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