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Old 10-10-2016, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Originally Posted by jerbear30 View Post
This, to a "T". I can't stand what the feeder roads do aesthetically, and I would say even culturally, to Texas.
I been saying it for a decade. The only redeeming quality they have is when you are skipping traffic somewhat do to rush hour or accidents. Other than that, they are nothing more than mini freeway eyesores with businesses fronting them. It's brutally ugly. I really have nothing positive to say about them.
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Old 10-10-2016, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Center City
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Feeder roads are extremely convenient, and I'd rather have businesses on the main arteries than grouped on the roads outside of neighborhoods. I'm more concerned about the asthetics close to home than on the freeways carrying people through our city.

Next time you're in Pittsburgh or LA and heading across town while needing gas, tell us how wonderful it is.

I'll take feeder roads any day of the week.
The OP seemed to wonder why people find Houston ugly, not whether it is a convenient city to find a service station. Not sure how many states you've lived in. Care to share that? I've lived in 7 states to date, and have never founded it difficult to purchase gas in any of them.
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Old 10-10-2016, 04:30 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Feeder roads are extremely convenient, and I'd rather have businesses on the main arteries than grouped on the roads outside of neighborhoods. I'm more concerned about the asthetics close to home than on the freeways carrying people through our city.

Next time you're in Pittsburgh or LA and heading across town while needing gas, tell us how wonderful it is.

I'll take feeder roads any day of the week.
Ugh. I highly doubt you have to venture that far off the interstate in these cities looking for gas. In fact, you don't really need a feeder for it anyway. In states without feeders, they are usually off the exit ramp as it is or at several hundred feet off the interstate at the least. And yeah, Texas cities are not known for aesthetics and these feeders do a wonderful job of contributing to that.
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Old 10-10-2016, 04:34 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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What I don't understand is why OP is saying Chicago isn't classified as ugly. Chicago is praised for its great skyline but then again, so is Houston. Chicago is known to be ugly in the streets. Definitely more so than Houston.
Because hardly anyone would classify Chicago as ugly and I never heard Chicago being known to be ugly in the streets. Ever been to Chicago?
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Old 10-10-2016, 05:44 PM
 
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The OP seemed to wonder why people find Houston ugly, not whether it is a convenient city to find a service station. Not sure how many states you've lived in. Care to share that? I've lived in 7 states to date, and have never founded it difficult to purchase gas in any of them.
Buying gas when driving on the freeways in LA was always a complete pain in the backside. Tell me I'm wrong.
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Old 10-10-2016, 05:46 PM
 
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Ugh. I highly doubt you have to venture that far off the interstate in these cities looking for gas. In fact, you don't really need a feeder for it anyway. In states without feeders, they are usually off the exit ramp as it is or at several hundred feet off the interstate at the least. And yeah, Texas cities are not known for aesthetics and these feeders do a wonderful job of contributing to that.
Tell me which major city you find to be pretty.
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Old 10-10-2016, 06:16 PM
 
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Tell me which major city you find to be pretty.
Chicago is pretty, especially by the lake.


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Old 10-10-2016, 06:55 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Tell me which major city you find to be pretty.
I know you didn't ask me, but San Francisco and Seattle are the common answers.

Just about every metro in Florida is easier on the eyes, and they're just as new and flat as Houston.
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Old 10-10-2016, 07:09 PM
 
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I know you didn't ask me, but San Francisco and Seattle are the common answers.

Just about every metro in Florida is easier on the eyes, and they're just as new and flat as Houston.
I really don't think you've been to Houston in quite some time because Houston is cleaner, newer and there is more improved development than most major cities. You personally just do not like the type of development in Houston which is considered by urbanists to be bland and soulless. It's a personal aesthetic taste, it's not really the case that Houston is ugly because it's not. Seattle and San Francisco are old cities that developed earlier than Houston and have the natural topography to boot.

I don't even know how you can call Houston "ugly" based on your standards and think cities in FL aren't ugly too.
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Old 10-10-2016, 07:54 PM
 
Location: Center City
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Buying gas when driving on the freeways in LA was always a complete pain in the backside. Tell me I'm wrong.
I have no idea what you're talking about. How does this apply to the relative attractiveness of Houston when compared with other cities?
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