Bro, you telling anyone to shut the **** up is laughable considering your takes on this board, particularly in the Astros subforum lol.
First paragraph? Yes. Second paragraph? Ugh no, those lights were crap and the studies were at best inconclusive on reducing accidents.
Houston is just too crowded. Bad drivers just make things worse. It also doesn't matter how much advanced notice, someone will always cut across multiple lanes at the last millisecond to get to an exit almost without fail AT EVERY EXIT. It's more of a shock when it doesn't happen.
Yea, I hear the skepticism and I'm a massive naysayer on the red light cams, at least the way it was implemented in Houston, by outsourcing management of the lights to a 3rd party that is incentivized to issue tickets. Also, the "studies" need refinement. The author of the study needs to ensure they are asking the right questions and collecting the data correctly. It can't be a basic "did crashes decrease" as that's too simplistic. All that said, my sentiment is how to reduce poor driving behavior. My preference is replace stop lights with traffic circles. You save on gas, pollution, and drive time. The challenge is how to fit them into the space but many roads have space. Or make more roads throughares, like Allen Parkway, and eliminate the stop light. Anyway, point being, there are ways to make things better. Maybe it's just more law enforcement but I'm sure I'd regret that.
Non sequitur here, but I work on Allen Parkway and we've gone back to the office 3 days a week starting this week. There have been 2 or 3 new lights added to Allen Parkway that weren't there 5 years ago. It used to be a straight shot from 45 to Waugh and visa versa. Sadly, it's just like any other road now.
Not a racist callout of OP and more of a general agreement of what everyone who uses DEI liberally really means when they use it.
I was making a joke about the overuse of the DEI term and how everything in society is now a fault of DEI. I thought about renaming it to Drivers Equity Inclusion. So no, it's not racist. **** driving in houston applies to every race.
Yea, they added another one a year or two ago. Turning it into another "strode". So bad. One of the few examples of good road design and they keep dumbing it down by adding more lights. At least Memorial is still light free from Shepherd to downtown. A lot of the bad driving is caused by bad road design. They should turn Westheimer, west of the Galleria to BW8, into a Memorial style road with access roads on either side. I feel like it's Mad Max driving that stretch. That might be the worst driving experience in all of Houston. Always chaos.
