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Old 11-24-2014, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Old 11-24-2014, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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Soooooo... How will surpassing Chicago's population benefit Houston?
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Old 11-24-2014, 10:45 PM
 
Location: Texarkana, Tx
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DFW shouldn't count as it's really two podunk towns. No point in projecting out to 2050, at the rate SoCal is quaking, LA might not be around by then.
Podunk? Really? Ok.
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Old 11-25-2014, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Mo City, TX
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Somebody explain to me how this is a good thing
It's not, I plan to be long gone by then (i.e. retired and living as far away from cities as possible or dead whichever comes first).
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Old 11-25-2014, 11:23 AM
 
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Who wants to be bigger than Chicago?

I don't want it

My commute was half an hour 5 years ago

now it is 45 minutes

From Galleria to Stafford every day

Traffic is unbelievable

Only idiots would want a bigger city...
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Old 11-25-2014, 11:36 AM
 
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I don't want it either.
There is some sort of woody this forum has for making Houston more urban and dense all that it comes with. Then they will complain how traffic is so bad everywhere.



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Originally Posted by misterno View Post
Who wants to be bigger than Chicago?

I don't want it

My commute was half an hour 5 years ago

now it is 45 minutes

From Galleria to Stafford every day

Traffic is unbelievable

Only idiots would want a bigger city...
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Old 11-25-2014, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Syracuse, New York
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If Greater Houston keeps building out, the metro will probably run into a situation where part of the expanded metro is given a name of its own.

Isn't that what happened to The Inland Empire?
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Old 11-25-2014, 12:12 PM
 
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If Greater Houston keeps building out, the metro will probably run into a situation where part of the expanded metro is given a name of its own.

Isn't that what happened to The Inland Empire?
It would be called San Antonio and Austin.
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Old 11-25-2014, 07:07 PM
 
Location: Who Cares, USA
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There is some sort of woody this forum has for making Houston more urban and dense all that it comes with. Then they will complain how traffic is so bad everywhere.
Not if they have decent public transit, they won't. Part of being "urban" is having an effective public transit system so that people who live in the city don't have to rely on their cars, or even have to own a car to get around.

Now, if Houston continues with it's pattern of building out rather than in, then yes. The complaints about traffic will go off the charts.
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