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lol, you don't believe me? Come see them, they are all huge.
Ive seem them many times, theyre in Dallas too....
All I saw in your pic was two freeways intersecting, with the largest being 5 lanes in ea direction. You mentioned 20? Are you just poking fun, or counting every lane in the picture?
Houston only has 2 more 500+ skyscrapers then Miami. Both skylines are HUGE.
Both cities have large skylines. If you are talking CBD Houstons is taller, and thicker. Miami seems to have more buildings and is more linear. If you take metro than Miami wins, easily.....
This shot of Miami Beach up the coast is easily in view with DT Miami, this doesnt even catch the tip of South Beach which has multiple highrises. All the way up the coast, Sunny Isles, Ft Lauderdale has a nice skyline
he was the one who said SA had more, and he was adamant about it.
San Antonio at one time had the second highest amount of state highways after L.A. according to Txhywman website. Of course that was several years ago it might have lost that status. I've also heard sources say San Antonio had the second largest freeway system after L.A. in total freeway miles. San Antonio's total is around 3,200 miles of total freeway. It doesn't have the same traffic counts as Houston freeways but overall freeway size it is bigger.
Houston total freeway system 2,548
http://mobility.tamu.edu/mmp/FHWA-HOP-05-018/appendices/PDFs/houston.pdf (broken link)
San Antonio at one time had the second highest amount of state highways after L.A. according to Txhywman website. Of course that was several years ago it might have lost that status. I've also heard sources say San Antonio had the second largest freeway system after L.A. in total freeway miles. San Antonio's total is around 3,200 miles of total freeway. It doesn't have the same traffic counts as Houston freeways but overall freeway size it is bigger.
Houston total freeway system 2,548
http://mobility.tamu.edu/mmp/FHWA-HOP-05-018/appendices/PDFs/houston.pdf (broken link)
Thats to bad the more freeways create a much more suburban city. With so much freeway it would be hard to create a urban city lanscape. Instead it creates sprawl and several skylines or vertical office parks if you want to call them that.
If you were to change the definition of "skyscraper" then these numbers would change too--sometimes drastically, depending on the city. For example, the SF MSA only has 18 building over 500 feet, but if we were to count 400 foot buildings as skyscrapers, than the SF MSA jumps up to 45. If we count all highrises from say, 200 feet upwards, than the SF MSA jumps to at least 189 (189 for SF and Oakland alone)...and if we count all buildings of about 100' and taller (Commercial Real Estate Information and Construction Data | Emporis.com seems to define a "high rise" as 100+ feet) within SF city limits alone, then you get a total of 418; more high rises than any US city aide from NYC, LA, Chicago, and Honolulu.
A list like this implies that city A, with 50 total high rises, 10 of which are 500'+ tall, is "taller" than city B, with 200 total high rises, of which only 4 are 500'+ tall. Doesn't really make sense except for arbitrary comparison of ultimately arbitrary and meaningless stuff...yeah i guess Dallas may have more "tallest" buildings than SF does, but SF undoubtedly has more tall buildings in total. Hell SF alone has more total high rises than Dallas and Fort Worth combined.
Last edited by rah; 11-15-2010 at 01:24 PM..
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