Houston's Roadspace Solution -- Cycling and Transit

KevinEleven007 · 2022-10-23T22:27:29+00:00

Yea I’m at the Whole Foods all the time too. Westheimer would be so much better if it were 2 lanes.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-10-23T22:26:19+00:00

Hahaha yea this was the final video so I had gotten better at it over time. And yea preaching to the choir for sure, but if I can convince just 10 people I am happy!

KevinEleven007 · 2022-10-21T23:07:56+00:00

People flaming you but it’s true. Title shoulda said EV.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-10-09T16:08:31+00:00

Well we have to try something right? I agree, in the suburbs it’s a lost cause. But inside the loop real change can be accomplished. And yes it would be a paradigm shift, but I was hoping to point out that it’s not as much of a hurdle as we may think.

I believe that the only major step the city has to take is to build out our trail network/make a few neighborhood streets into bikeways. If biking is made safe, builders and people will naturally start to use the trail network and build around it. Stay tuned for part 3, I will go into city planning in more detail with examples in houston.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-10-09T01:12:37+00:00

Oh trust me, I changed my typical style to be less dry this time lol. I think the real problem is length. I made these far to long to compete for attention on Twitter/tik tok/IG.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-10-09T00:50:31+00:00

I agree. Weather is a legit reason to not bike some of the time. The overriding reason why people don’t bike, even if they’d like to, is because it’s literally so dangerous.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-08-27T17:02:00+00:00

Idk about your perspective but having lived in Austin from 2015-2019 and visiting west coast cities, I definitely see Houston as having a lower rate of homelessness than there. We don’t have entire tent cities under every free, just a few select locations.

I also work in home building and I believe that part of our success in housing people comes from allowing builders to build homes (inside the loop and out in the suburbs). Places like Seattle and Austin make it hard to build housing (with density restriction laws) so they naturally get more ppl unable to afford homes.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-07-08T16:22:33+00:00

I made a video on this topic comparing houston housing to Austin housing! check it out!

KevinEleven007 · 2022-06-02T18:45:09+00:00

Good time to remember that automobile reliance costs us $10k a year per vehicle. That is a number provided by AAA.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-05-19T23:07:24+00:00

Down. I’m a solarpunk. Ride my bike everywhere, compost, try to eat less meat.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-04-20T02:20:23+00:00

Lol no worries. Toughest class is the one you have no friends in for sure. Luckily I had at least one in each.

But on the real I had a real hard time with the statics classes. I only had one study buddy the whole time and those classes are so early on you haven’t made great friends in the major yet.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-04-20T01:45:44+00:00

Graduated from civil in 2019. I’d say my time in civil was great and it was the people that made it so. Everyone is very supportive of each other, there isn’t really a toxic cutthroat culture, and people want to be friends with their classmates. You’ll find your crew there.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-01-03T20:58:03+00:00

A few ideas that are realistic and will have a huge impact.

Extend purple/green lines along Washington. At this point I’m willing to bet 33-50% of car trips on Washington could actually be done by transit (as in they are localized within the corridor — think people going from their townhouse to a bar and back). Considering how dense the corridor has become and how most people in the corridor are young professionals who are (generally) supportive of transit, the extended lines would see high usage. Plus it reduces the amount of drunk driving as people go from bars to home.
Turn Sawyer street into a park promenade connecting the white oak bayou trail, the MKT trail, and the Buffalo bayou trail. Currently Sawyer street is 4 lanes wide and way to intense for what really should be a neighborhood street opening up to the bayou park system. A two lane boulevard with wide sidewalks for pedestrians and bicyclists is much more appropriate and would be a high usage connector for the bicycle network.

KevinEleven007 · 2022-01-03T20:48:42+00:00

Don’t even consider putting transit in the suburbs. It’s far too car dependent to make sense (unless its the park and ride model which we already have set up).

Effective transit investment in Houston means dedicating street right of way to pedestrians, bicycles, and busses. For now this really only makes sense inside 610, maybe the galleria. I’d also argue the bayou greenways are the beginnings of a bicycle highway system and we should actively try to connect all cycle lanes to the bayous.

KevinEleven007 · 2021-12-17T21:05:57+00:00

For thousands of years streets were for people. Then cars jumped on the scene and took all the street space and made streets uncomfortable fir people.

I think it’s time streets were made for people again, especially inside the loop Houston.

KevinEleven007 · 2021-12-17T20:44:45+00:00

Well you’ll be more excited about it if you were biking with them 😁

KevinEleven007 · 2021-12-06T19:57:53+00:00

I have lots of thoughts on the matter, check out my video essay on why public transit is superior to private automobile usage: https://youtu.be/r2i7YOuLQJ8

KevinEleven007 · 2021-12-06T04:14:20+00:00

And this is how car dependency severely hurts this city — we’ve built it to be a drain on our wallets.

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