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Houston has their downtown lights turn green sequentially if you travel the speed limit. Nifty: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/a...
I've heard about this before but never seen it in writing, thanks. It is pretty neat. Do other cities not have the same?
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Austin does. Also, feeder roads along highways are a great Texas feature, too.
Wow, I didn't realise that feeder roads were a Texas-specific thing. How do other parts of the country handle commercial properties that face highways?
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I've heard about this before but never seen it in writing, thanks. It is pretty neat. Do other cities not have the same?
Austin does. Also, feeder roads along highways are a great Texas feature, too.
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Austin does. Also, feeder roads along highways are a great Texas feature, too.
I thought these were called frontage roads? I mean, in Mississippi, they are just called that. I prefer living in the north where they do not have such monstrosities. But I currently live in Beijing, so I have to deal with the "fulu" all the time.
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I used to live there for some years in the '90s and still visit semi-regularly because family live there, and in my own experience (which may not to apply to all neighborhoods), nobody cares about this market in Houston, because everyone drives their private cars. So it's kind of a meh, do what you want. There is a very small public-transit system, and a smallish number of taxi drivers who mainly serve business trave…
I agree with this for the most part; another problem is the vast distances (30+ minutes) many people travel to and from the entertainment districts. Very few people live within a 10-minute drive of, say, Washington Street, so taking a cab is prohibitively expensive (and cabs don't like taking people on 30+ minute rides to suburbia as the ride back is not monetizable). I'm not sure if Uber can create a new market here…
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Austin does. Also, feeder roads along highways are a great Texas feature, too.
Wow, I didn't realise that feeder roads were a Texas-specific thing. How do other parts of the country handle commercial properties that face highways?
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I agree with this for the most part; another problem is the vast distances (30+ minutes) many people travel to and from the entertainment districts. Very few people live within a 10-minute drive of, say, Washington Street, so taking a cab is prohibitively expensive (and cabs don't like taking people on 30+ minute rides to suburbia as the ride back is not monetizable). I'm not sure if Uber can create a new market here…
I live in Midtown. I take ubers to Washington, the CBD, Montrose, and the Rice Villiage regularly. I've never spent more than 10 bucks on a trip.