▲ 939 ▼ anon discusses car dependence (lemmy.ml) submitted 11 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world 259 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children) Still a ton of parking spots I see, could've been replaced by bicycle racks, apartments, and parks. The parking spots could have gone underground. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child) could’ve been replaced by bicycle racks, apartments, and parks. We did actually have a ton of public racks and even rental bikes installed under Mayors White and Parker. Turner kinda neglected them. Then, over the last year, John Whitmire tore them all out again. I'll also note that the Main Street light rail has created a boom in apartment housing along its length. South of downtown was basically a slum until the rail was installed. Now it's a bunch of 8+ story apartments and a few high rises with shopping/restaurants on the first floor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago* Then I hope Whitmire gets ran over by a car. Hope he plucks the sour fruits of his own policies. Reading more on him and he sounds like an ass. No AC for inmates in hot summers... then he's a criminal himself for making people die. Maybe he should undergo a lack of AC himself. He also seems awfully willing to lock people up, instead of actually making the situation better by ending his own life. permalink fedilink source parent [–] moakley@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago There's a series of underground shops and restaurants in downtown Houston, connected by tunnels. Great way for someone working downtown to walk to lunch when it's too hot to go outside. There is some underground parking on the edge of downtown. With that said, it's actually very difficult to build underground in Houston because of the high water table. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child) could’ve been replaced by bicycle racks, apartments, and parks. We did actually have a ton of public racks and even rental bikes installed under Mayors White and Parker. Turner kinda neglected them. Then, over the last year, John Whitmire tore them all out again. I'll also note that the Main Street light rail has created a boom in apartment housing along its length. South of downtown was basically a slum until the rail was installed. Now it's a bunch of 8+ story apartments and a few high rises with shopping/restaurants on the first floor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago* Then I hope Whitmire gets ran over by a car. Hope he plucks the sour fruits of his own policies. Reading more on him and he sounds like an ass. No AC for inmates in hot summers... then he's a criminal himself for making people die. Maybe he should undergo a lack of AC himself. He also seems awfully willing to lock people up, instead of actually making the situation better by ending his own life. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago* Then I hope Whitmire gets ran over by a car. Hope he plucks the sour fruits of his own policies. Reading more on him and he sounds like an ass. No AC for inmates in hot summers... then he's a criminal himself for making people die. Maybe he should undergo a lack of AC himself. He also seems awfully willing to lock people up, instead of actually making the situation better by ending his own life. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] moakley@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago There's a series of underground shops and restaurants in downtown Houston, connected by tunnels. Great way for someone working downtown to walk to lunch when it's too hot to go outside. There is some underground parking on the edge of downtown. With that said, it's actually very difficult to build underground in Houston because of the high water table. permalink fedilink source parent
