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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I highly doubt that people would stop moving to Houston if the city better allocated their transportation infrastructure. It would probably grow more if they had better transit.
It also doesn't seem like this is sustainable for Houston. Houston and Brooklyn added a similar number of people between 2010 and 2020 (205k vs 231k). But Brooklyn's land area is 1/10 the size of Houston's. There are only so many places for Houston to stick 10-lane highways to keep growing, while Brooklyn didn't have to add any transit infrastructure to absorb the growth.
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Maybe the city of Houston added 200K over ten years but the greater Houston metro added quite a bit more.
I don’t wholly support this plan but eventually all the freeways and interstates in Houston, in Texas, and the US will either need to be replaced or rebuilt over decades.
Not building this and relying on “public transit” just isn’t a realistic goal in the least.
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