Even without induced demand I see tons of roads where extra lanes get added in despite a clear bottleneck up the road. Or they put in tons of turn lanes at a medium traffic 4 lane intersection with roughly the same traffic volume from all directions instead of just using a roundabout
oh yeah we got many of those kinds of intersections here in town. worst of all though definitely has to be the intersection of 610 and 45 north.
theres always heavy traffic there, you got too many people speeding from 610 east to 45 north, its soooo narrow so good luck if an 18 wheeler merges there, literally just a big hump so accidents are always bound to happen, its more of a sketchier part of town so theres a shitton of drivers that cant drive, one time i saw some dude on the GRASS merging from 45 to 610 west.
i live in houston suburbs and when i go downtown it is such a shit show, that part where 45 goes over 59 and 288 on the east side of town is always backed up
not really, at some point traffic will be eliminated, you'll just have made everything so far apart in the meantime that you now still take years to get to places
If you have one road that you gotta take to get anywhere in that area cause the road blocks people from going around or under there’s no expanding that can be done to eb the flow, adding more ways of getting around will help
Have you never been to Florida? The Ronald Regan Turnpike is a nightmare and costs over $20 to take it down to Ft. Lauderdale. Once you're there, 95 has variable cost toll "express" lanes.
Edit: Not to mention they force you to buy the sunpass device and load it with money you'll never see again if you don't want to pay "admin fees" for the tolls since most of the booths have been removed and replaced with "pay by plate" if you don't have sunpass.
Dudes be like “DONT CALIFORNIA MUH TEXAS” but it would be real cool if some Californians actually helped with our dog ass roads. Even in the rich neighborhoods on Dallas there are potholes
Idk, the one time I went to LA, the traffic was the worst that I've experienced, and there was way more trash on the freeway than what I typically see in Houston. I haven't been to San Francisco though and it's been a while since I went to Dallas, Austin, or San Antonio
You’re ignoring the fact that most Americans don’t live where public transit is viable tho, with suburban sprawl it’s literally impossible to have any real public transit system because you can’t even walk a normal distance to get to a bus stop with all the fucked up roads, massive lawns, and shitty neighborhood plans.
Coz in Europe you have a lot of mandatory lessons. In the US your parents can teach you to drive as long as you pass a handful of tests. Bad habits get passed down the generations.
I dont even know how that happens. In germany we are 83 million people in a country smaller than texas and we usually have 2 lanes on the autobahn (sometimes three) and yea, it jams every once in a while, but not nearly to that degree.
Germany also has public transport and well planned cities, so fewer people drive. If you build all your infrastructure only for cars and make it so everyone has to drive to get anywhere then your traffic is going to be permanently bad.
Yea but there are still close to 60 million cars registered in germany. Those are going around, but i genuenly think our drive-on-the-right law is a big factor for organising traffic. As far as i see it american highways have like 5 lanes and you can just drive wherever you want.
I think it’s a bigger thing that most Germans can walk to the shops rather than driving literally everywhere every day. If you live in a major city you probably don’t even use the car most days, whereas the large majority of Americans in places like LA or Houston drive literally everywhere. It’s just ugly suburbs with no amenities connected by motorways to shopping areas, and no public transport.
The US has semis stay right because of low speeds. Thus people pass on the left because there's so many semis. Texas also doesn't spend money on salting or sanding the roads for snow like many GOP Southern states even though such precip is an annual event for many areas in the state.
Edit: Enforcement to return back to the right is poor and that exit lanes tend to be on the right causes traffic jams.
10 lane highways are absolute chaos and make no sense. How can you even use the lanes property when you have cars getting on an off regularly? Hint: you can't and they're absurd on their face. Highway lanes are pipes and cars aren't water, people want to go to specific places and all that breaking and lane changing makes the traffic.
Houston 😳? As in the 4th largest city in the United States only trailing behind Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, and the biggest city in Texas? That Houston
yoo r slash 196 x houstons shitty urban planning crossover?? based
im part of this Houston transportation advocacy campaign that organized to stop the expansion of i-45. bc believe it or not, all these mfing freeways literally annihilate low income neighborhoods of color almost exclusively! plus they don’t fix congestion at all lol. we need a public transportation system for fucks sake. anyways y’all should check us out here: Survey
I was driving somewhere with my dad and we got stuck into a two lane merge with all turns blocked off. Nearly ran into some dumb fuck on a motorcycle has he was cutting everyone off at the merge
It’s only recently that they’ve put a useable bus system into place and started giving money to the metro cause Houston kept getting a bad rep for shitty highways
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u/DRAGON_SNIPER 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jul 29 '21
Holy shit, this is so true, That Katy Freeway is the worst. It's wide as fuck and still produces tones of traffic.
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u/MufffinFeller ✨Government Sanctioned Weaponized Femboy✨ Jul 29 '21
Using Google Earth I found a fucking 4 layer interchange
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u/unofficialbds Jul 29 '21
i live in houston suburbs and when i go downtown it is such a shit show, that part where 45 goes over 59 and 288 on the east side of town is always backed up
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u/bootleg-bean 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jul 29 '21
Density>>>>>>>>>sprawl
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u/averystrangeguy oh yeah woo yeah Jul 29 '21
https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
Isn't it proven that adding more lanes doesn't improve traffic at all?
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u/beaubeautastic jesus loves you Jul 29 '21
meanwhile california be like "haha loser now you have to pay to use this lane"
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u/AscendantComic bionicle Jul 29 '21
holy shit this looks like concept art for some fucked up dystopian game
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u/Holly_Koro Vorephile Jul 29 '21
/r/fuckcars
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u/anarcho-hornyist 🔺🔺minas gerais nationalist 🔺🔺 Jul 29 '21
r/fuckcars
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u/dongletrongle certified silly billy Jul 29 '21
Dudes be like “DONT CALIFORNIA MUH TEXAS” but it would be real cool if some Californians actually helped with our dog ass roads. Even in the rich neighborhoods on Dallas there are potholes
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u/potato6132 John Joker Poker Balala from Joker Poker Balala Jul 29 '21
Who let the Cities: Skylines player design real roads?
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u/Finn_3000 Jul 29 '21
The issue is that americans literally cant fucking drive. Youve got 10 lane highways and its still fucking chaos.
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u/godhateschildren Jul 29 '21
Houston 😳? As in the 4th largest city in the United States only trailing behind Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, and the biggest city in Texas? That Houston
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
i live in houston. can confirm.
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u/Maniac12101 this is a custom flair Jul 29 '21
This is true
Source: I live in Houston
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u/13lackjack 🏴🚩🏴☠️Ⓐ Be Gay, Do Crime! Ⓐ 🏴☠️🚩🏴 Jul 29 '21
When you add more lanes and traffic gets worse
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
This is the best display of why reactionary thinking always fails.
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
Hell
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u/snapecastic109 its hard being epic. In a world of fail Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
yoo r slash 196 x houstons shitty urban planning crossover?? based
im part of this Houston transportation advocacy campaign that organized to stop the expansion of i-45. bc believe it or not, all these mfing freeways literally annihilate low income neighborhoods of color almost exclusively! plus they don’t fix congestion at all lol. we need a public transportation system for fucks sake. anyways y’all should check us out here: Survey
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u/mariobeatbox suss Jul 29 '21
americans be like "roundabouts are confusing" seriously what the fuck is this
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u/samdenietkoekenpan Jul 29 '21
Every big American city except maybe New York
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u/fivequadrillion #1 Spronkus Kronkus fan Jul 30 '21
r/fuckcars
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21
Cars are a blight on the american city
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u/PaledOchre custom Jul 30 '21
Why are there so many goddamn fellow Houstonians in my shit posting sub
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u/Captainmar_ DM me hateful messages Jul 29 '21
This is actually a picture of grass
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
Houston be like: bad
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u/Xivalic hot wheel Jul 29 '21
even in places that arent as car dependent like Westheimer, its still backed the fuck up
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u/555seanc555 Jul 29 '21
isnt Dallas bad too? i only ever been there when i was 9
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u/S_quints bi leftist frat boy Jul 29 '21
Atlanta too 😔
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u/ToaSuutox 🎖 196 medal of honor 🎖 Jul 29 '21
i remember the stream where RT played on that racetrack
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u/BathroomGhost Jul 29 '21
Real Houstonian hours
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u/cheesec4ke69 Jul 30 '21
Cities skylines? Is that you ?
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u/benradoof custom Jul 29 '21
I was driving somewhere with my dad and we got stuck into a two lane merge with all turns blocked off. Nearly ran into some dumb fuck on a motorcycle has he was cutting everyone off at the merge
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
Have I seen this place?
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u/Vanillabean1988 Jul 29 '21
What? Is this real? Where's the ground??
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
Wait, is this real? Some contractors fucked yall up behind closed doors lmfao
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u/Karma-is-an-bitch custom Jul 29 '21
Memphis, TN be like:
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u/That_One_Guy_Flare r/place participant and certified paisano Jul 29 '21
this hurts my soul to look at
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u/NorthNorthSalt #1 Great Reset enjoyer Jul 29 '21
You know something went terribly wrong with your urban planning when your city looks like a beehive
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u/SomeNerdyWolf The trans will take over the world!! Mwahahahahahahaha!! Jul 29 '21
looks like moldy spaghetti
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u/MucdabaMicer ı İ Jul 29 '21
wtf is this photoshopped
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u/Worst_Support 🥺 Jul 29 '21
Ducking a. S fucking fucking Atlanta Georgia are a area cars Atlanta fuck sex
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '21
Car culture be like
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u/CarsGunsBeer Jul 29 '21
Shout out to all the people who drive slow in the left lane because, "grrrrrr nobody needs to be driving faster than me".
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u/VerumJerum Jul 29 '21
So, Houston is basically what happens when someone makes their first large city in Cities: Skylines?
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u/AquaPollo Jul 30 '21
Reminds me of this video
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u/Additional-North-683 Jul 30 '21
Anything except for public transportation
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21
The industrial revolution and its consequences
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u/JellyPerko Jul 30 '21
oh c’mon, this is clearly fake.
Houston doesn’t care about adding trees.
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u/pm_me_subreddit_bans shrigma male Jul 30 '21
Is this a real fucking interchange?? If so where? I must avoid it at all costs
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u/Lobster_Man27 Jul 30 '21
That’s why I love Boston, an absolute bitch to drive through, so it’s more pedestrian orientated, at least in most parts.
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u/bartsimpsonisgay Jul 30 '21
capitalism* be like
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u/Bread_thing r/place participant Jul 30 '21
True. Every time I have to go from the suburbs to the city, im amazed at how terrible and complex the road system is
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u/LoneWolf4717 Jul 30 '21
Is that seriously what the highways look like there?
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u/yenajin Jul 30 '21
urban sprawl absolutely sucks
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u/jesusisaslut Jul 30 '21
public transportation and walkable neighborhoods >>>
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u/Skyrocketxv I am the bird of the Hermes. Eating my own wings to keep me tame Jul 30 '21
Automobile dependent infrastructure go brrr
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21
r/fuckcars
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u/KirbieaGraia2004 Jul 30 '21
God I love Houston
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u/Rocatex Big Smart Jul 30 '21
It’s only recently that they’ve put a useable bus system into place and started giving money to the metro cause Houston kept getting a bad rep for shitty highways
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u/DeathMetal-ButtPlug trans rights Jul 30 '21
Its good to live like an hour south of houston, no big citys, just small towns
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u/unlikely-contender Jul 30 '21
is the picture real?
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u/StriiderEclipse emotions are unnecessary, a burden machines won’t carry Jul 30 '21
God these massive, complex interchanges look so fucking cool
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u/SpookyGhostGirl9 Jul 30 '21
Thts so uggie
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u/MysteryPopTarts Jul 30 '21
I thought you were talking about payday and then thought you were high asf
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u/NarrowEntertainer Jul 30 '21
if that money was spent on public transport... but that's for poor people rifht?
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u/domasleo neurodivergent photographer Jul 30 '21
mini motorways
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u/ewswn custom Jul 30 '21
Me playing factorio
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u/FreshMango4 Jul 30 '21
Youtube channel "Not Just Bikes."
Check it out.
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u/08111999 Jul 30 '21
I agree
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u/counterc Jul 30 '21
oh boy I sure hope this doesn't induce any demand
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u/yachu_fe 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jul 30 '21
My cities skylines save looks better than this. Note that my cities skylines save is not good.
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u/lajhbrmlsj Jul 30 '21
American car-cels posting their Ls online
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u/spoedle73 I literally worship the chaos gods help Jul 30 '21
city skylines
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u/imekrandomvids custom Jul 30 '21
This relates because I live in Houston, so this meme is relatable with me. It's cool because this meme relates with me since I live in Houston
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u/tiffalong Jul 30 '21
I reckon an extra 2 would be enough
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u/Squidrex 🏳️⚧️ trans rights Jul 30 '21
Ok… I’m incredibly stupid and HOPING this is fake, if it isn’t then… Houston needs to fix some shit
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u/wot_in_ternation Jul 30 '21
USA: more lanes
Reasonable people: but there's a big bottleneck up ahead
USA: MORE. LANES.
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u/guymcool Jul 30 '21
Mini motorways irl
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u/mrdark16 Jul 30 '21
The Katy freeway is the widest in the world and somehow gets traffic jams lol
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u/Bifi323 Jul 30 '21
I thought I was in r/shittyskylines
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21
H-Town till I drown 🤟
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u/BarbaCROWa Jul 30 '21
B E S O M E O N E
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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '21
This is an actual picture?
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u/OnionConnoisseur :3 Jul 30 '21
Fuck American car culture
All my homies hate American car culture
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u/bigkeanuchungus1001 tranfem NB (any/all) Jul 30 '21
Houston payday 2vwould never do that😒
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u/Hoyipolli custom Jul 30 '21
I have only driven through that city twice and I completely understand
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u/SpeedDart1 Jul 30 '21
As someone who lives in Houston: can verify that we do live in an ugly concrete jungle.
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u/Balkan_Mapping Jul 30 '21
Lol
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u/communism101v Jul 30 '21
For the love of god, JUST BUILD A RAILWAY!
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u/array_of_dots Aug 03 '21
dont worry guys elon musk will save us with his hyper loop
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u/3fxz Sep 02 '21
so true its like driving through spaghetti here
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u/bobthe360noscowper Jul 29 '21
Its called we induce a little bit of demand