Why is Houston soo... UGHHH!! (Sugar Land, The Woodlands: city hall, houses, subdivision)

[stoneclaw]

Yeah Houston is just terrible! It sucks living here!

[N. Buck]

EE, do you have any suggestions? Again, you won't get very far complaining, so I would love to hear any suggestions you have and plans you have for moving in that direction. Let's be proactive!

[jfre81]

You know what? I don't think there has been enough Houston bashing lately.



Not only do we have big ugly freeways and billboards, but people from Louisiana are here too.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by tstone

I-45 is still a dump from south of Downtown all the way to Clear Lake. Lots of sexually oriented businesses, taquerias, car dealerships with cloud-buster balloons, $300 apartments that collapse, and this one huge place called "His Soils" with a Jesus logo and mountains of dirt, mulch and manure that sometimes stinks up the area. Then Clear Lake to Dickinson is mostly big-box stores & car dealerships for miles & miles with only a handful of sexually-oriented businesses. But anyway...

I think the Colorado sign has been a distinct 59 landmark for the past 20 years.

ahhhh the beauty of access/feeder roads. They make uh life uh so uhhh grand and uhh stuff. Makes it so beautiful and uh stuff. Yeah

[neotextist]

Originally Posted by jfre81

You know what? I don't think there has been enough Houston bashing lately.



Not only do we have big ugly freeways and billboards, but people from Louisiana are here too.

Hahahaha!!! What's great about that billboard is I bet that picture of the streetcar is really effective. Picture it, you're a New Orleanian, driving along the freeway in Houston, probably trying to get downtown, just missed your exit and took a wrong turn and now you're lost in some newly unknown godforsaken part of the city, on Telephone Road or Lockwood or somewhere, just like last time. Can't figure out where you're going because it's flat like NOLA, sure, difference is there're no landmarks to help you find your way, there's no "riverside." Then you see that billboard. That's when the ad's subliminal message comes into play, "Look around you... do you want this? Or THIS?" LOL

[jfre81]

You can't get lost. If you're inside the loop, go in any direction and you'll hit 610. olol

That actually is near I-10 and Lockwood, although I was sitting at UH-Downtown in the train.

[neotextist]

Originally Posted by jfre81

You can't get lost. If you're inside the loop, go in any direction and you'll hit 610. olol

That actually is near I-10 and Lockwood, although I was sitting at UH-Downtown in the train.

YOU can't get lost. I volunteered with a lot of NOLAns (lol) after Katrina and that was their number one complaint about Houston, the city was too big and had terrible public transportation, and they couldn't figure out why everything was so far away from each other and how to navigate the city without NOLA-style directions, "upriver," "downriver," etc. New Orleans Compass Directions (http://www.som.tulane.edu/cancer/compass.no.html - broken link)

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by houstoner

YOU can't get lost. I volunteered with a lot of NOLAns (lol) after Katrina and that was their number one complaint about Houston, the city was too big and had terrible public transportation, and they couldn't figure out why everything was so far away from each other and how to navigate the city without NOLA-style directions, "upriver," "downriver," etc. New Orleans Compass Directions (http://www.som.tulane.edu/cancer/compass.no.html - broken link)

I guess these people have never been to a city other than New Orleans? I mean, it's one of the few places where "downtown" has a meaning other than the central business district, which in itself is a proper name and place. And olol@NOLA people thinking our street layout is confusing.

What they don't get is we kind of have that here too, it's just that most of the locals aren't even aware of it. Our Downtown (also our CBD, with a skyline visible for miles) is down the bayou from Uptown (marked by the Transco/Williams Tower, also visible for miles with a big honkin' searchlight at night).

I'm not sure why everyone had to travel across the entire city for everything though. Maybe all of the Katrina relief stuff was scattered everywhere and somehow they had to go from one end to the other for it? I understand it's hard for people from more compact cities to wrap their heads around how such a large area can belong to one city's limits but it's just a political boundary. Most of the fringe is suburban development which is spread out and car-centric as any other place of its kind. Nobody has to live on the opposite side of the city from where they work, and there's little else that requires such trips. I have no need, say, to drive to the north side to go to the grocery store or the post office. Nobody needs to do that.

[N. Buck]

Originally Posted by jfre81

You can't get lost. If you're inside the loop, go in any direction and you'll hit 610. olol

That actually is near I-10 and Lockwood, although I was sitting at UH-Downtown in the train.

jfre, I agree! Houston has 2 loops the basically surround the city! Heck. Just ride in any direction until you hit one! Yeah, if you hit the outter loop it will suck, but uh . . . heck, at least you hit something!

[Texas Mack]

So true. Just don't pay any attention to the name on the street sign. It's sure to change in another mile or two.