I went to Houston for the first time this year. I knew they’re against any socialist policies but the thing that shocked me was no sidewalks! I was wondering how they managed so I did some research and they just don’t. Hundreds of pedestrians are killed each year in the greater Houston sidewalk-less suburban area (statistically seniors?)
Houston is a nightmare, I’ve been doing a ton of permitting out there and it’s basically impossible because they use 95% of the right of way for the widest streets possible and if you’re lucky enough to have a sidewalk, it usually doesn’t connect to anything.
Austin is the same, my sister lives there and a couple times while visiting her I walked her dog. Some houses have sidewalks, some don’t, it’s totally left up to the discretion of the home builder/owner if they want to put one in. So you’ll have two houses with side walks then 6 with one and then one house with one…
It’s fucking horrible for walking dogs and pedestrians in general.
Yes Houston is one of the cities I went to. I actually tried walking once out of spite. What would have been a 5 minute drive was a 40 minute walk along loud and ugly cement roads breathing in fumes from huge mall crawler Jeeps.
I’ve lived here for over a decade and this is all correct.
Grab a few tacos on the way through but burn it all down behind you please. It fucking sucks here.
Give it back to Mexico, then let them burn down Dallas and Houston.
I went to Houston for the first time this year. I knew they’re against any socialist policies but the thing that shocked me was no sidewalks! I was wondering how they managed so I did some research and they just don’t. Hundreds of pedestrians are killed each year in the greater Houston sidewalk-less suburban area (statistically seniors?)
Houston is a nightmare, I’ve been doing a ton of permitting out there and it’s basically impossible because they use 95% of the right of way for the widest streets possible and if you’re lucky enough to have a sidewalk, it usually doesn’t connect to anything.
It’s not as bad as Scottsdale/Phoenix though
Austin is the same, my sister lives there and a couple times while visiting her I walked her dog. Some houses have sidewalks, some don’t, it’s totally left up to the discretion of the home builder/owner if they want to put one in. So you’ll have two houses with side walks then 6 with one and then one house with one…
It’s fucking horrible for walking dogs and pedestrians in general.
Yes Houston is one of the cities I went to. I actually tried walking once out of spite. What would have been a 5 minute drive was a 40 minute walk along loud and ugly cement roads breathing in fumes from huge mall crawler Jeeps.