city of houston abuses poor areas (private school, rich, car)

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by chad.roper

Has anyone noticed that the city keeps rich areas up real good like river oaks they never have bad roads or bad water or sewage. Then some place like gulfton the roads are so bad they shake your car apart there are places in the southwest I can't even get my car through I have to go on a bus.

I don't get the sense that you drive up and down Weslayan/Willowick very often...

[jimboburnsy]

Originally Posted by glorplaxy

36 hours does not mean you were the first one after the storm with electricity. I turned on the radio the morning after Ike and on Kirby from Westheimer to Shepherd they all had their lights on already. Westheimer even had quite a couple of restaurants open the day after. My friend who technically lived in Houston (only a block away from Pasadena) didn't have his electricity restored for 10 days.

That's not very surprising. Centerpoint's priorities were to get hospitals, nursing homes and schools up-and-running as soon as possible, then grocers with refrigeration, then residential. How many grocery stores are there on that strip of Westheimer? How many apartments with geriatric residents? How many schools? Also, how many of those lights that you saw were running off of natural gas generators?

The neighborhood didn't have power restored for weeks. There are a lot of mature trees in River Oaks that are densely patterned. Ike did enormous damage to the "conventional" distribution lines in the neighborhood and it took a lot of doing to get the A/C's and lights running again.

[Oildog]

We just dont like counting our money in the dark. Besides other areas get different city services with my tax dollar.

[diggity101]

The obvious reason that city hall decided to disfavor this area is because, there is a high concentration of immigrants living there and they do not have any politically backing

That makes perfect sense. Let's put the most cameras in an area where the people are the least likely to pay the tickets! brilliant theory.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with accidents.

There are several of these cameras in the Galleria area (which has some of the most affluent residents in town) so I guess they forgot about that.

[CitrusFruit]

Originally Posted by westres1

really? Your a troll please leave city data in peace my friend

Yeah, he's a troll alright...

We had power here about a day and a half after Ike. My co-worker, who lives in River Oaks, didn't get power back at his house until 2 weeks after Ike. Another co-worker, who lives in the Heights, didn't get his power back until the last week of Oct.

It wasn't all that much about who has money and who doesn't. It was more about who was on the same lines at hospitals, fire departments, police stations, grocery stores, etc.

[cheryjohns]

You do realize he's a 7th grader, right?

[CitrusFruit]

Originally Posted by cheryjohns

You do realize he's a 7th grader, right?

Who?

[westres1]

Originally Posted by cheryjohns

You do realize he's a 7th grader, right?

lol no I didnt know!

[HouTXmetro]

I have to chime in......I been in Houston a long time and grew up in poor area's. But I will tell you the roads are uniformly neglected regardless of rich/poor. Kirby/Buffalo speedway in between 610 south and 59 is a travesty.

[crone]

Guess DH didn't know that stretch of Kirby where the pot hole did $1200 of damage to his car was the bad part of town.

Jimboburnsy is correct. You want electricity after a storm, move next to a hospital. They work need first, then the most service restored in the quickest time. Depends on what's causing the outage.

Any city who says we can annex and tax you years before providing services does not give a damn about any citizen, rich or poor.