If there's ONE place in Texas that has just about everything I hate about this state... (San Antonio: house, neighborhoods)

[Nairobi]

It's this place. A sprawling, traffic nightmare!

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...12,299.18,,0,0

A friend of mine recently moved east of San Antonio's Stone Oak neighborhood, and this area has the absolute worst planning I've probably ever seen.

[L210]

You probably just offended a lot of San Antonians, but I agree. I avoid the Stone Oak area like the plague because of the traffic. I'm only about 10 minutes away from there, but I only go up there when I absolutely have to. A couple of years ago, I drove to someone's house in that area. Goodness, it took forever to get from and to the highway. There is subdivision after subdivision with many of them far away from major roads that lead directly to a highway.

[Nairobi]

Originally Posted by L210

You probably just offended a lot of San Antonians, but I agree. I avoid the Stone Oak area like the plague because of the traffic. I'm only about 10 minutes away from there, but I only go up there when I absolutely have to. A couple of years ago, I drove to someone's house in that area. Goodness, it took forever to get from and to the highway. There is subdivision after subdivision with many of them far away from major roads that lead directly to a highway.

It certainly isn't my intention to offend. After all, I'm criticizing the place itself but not the actual people.

You hit the nail on the head, though.

[L210]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

It certainly isn't my intention to offend. After all, I'm criticizing the place itself but not the actual people.

You hit the nail on the head, though.

People often take it personally when their neighborhoods are "dissed." After all, thousands of people continue to choose to move out there. If they don't mind the traffic (they do because they want taxpayers to build more roads out there), it doesn't really bother me. I'd much rather the city build more in the core and my tax dollars go to public transportation development, but we can't all have what we want.

[Mom2Feebs]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

It's this place. A sprawling, traffic nightmare!

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...12,299.18,,0,0

A friend of mine recently moved east of San Antonio's Stone Oak neighborhood, and this area has the absolute worst planning I've probably ever seen.

It's the main reason we chose the far west side of town (Westover Hills) over Stone Oak. The traffic is an absolute nightmare most of the time.

[smuboy86]

Friends don't let friends live in stone oak

[Midessan]

It's really no big deal if traffic is just congested or slow, or poorly laid out.

In the Permian Basin we are 2.5 times more likely to die in traffic accidents than any other area of the state, but Austin still refuses to built any new highways here.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by Nairobi

It's this place. A sprawling, traffic nightmare!

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&l...12,299.18,,0,0

A friend of mine recently moved east of San Antonio's Stone Oak neighborhood, and this area has the absolute worst planning I've probably ever seen.

It is pretty ignorant to post something like that without saying more to substantiate your position.

[rynetwo]

It's way less about poor planning and more about lawsuits and Texas taking more money from the San Antonio then it returns for infrastructure.

[Dopo]

I used to live close to Hollywood Park, South-East of the intersection of 1604 and 281
and I used to avoid it like a plague

It's not just that area, I would go shopping sometimes at the intersection of 1604 and 281 and it sucked really bad
Main reason is that Gold Canyon Rd. and Sonterra Blvd are not connected because both are used as huge entrances to a megachurch.


The reason that spot in Stone Oak is so bad is because there's no overpasses North of 1604
The city grew and didn't build overpasses
Many people were proposing as a solution to make it a toll road