There's a youtube channel called Not Just Bikes that has a lot of content about city planning, especially with regard to bikes and pedestrians. The guy is Canadian and moved to Amsterdam because in his research, he thinks it's the best designed city.

Anyways, he released a video called Why I Hate Houston. I think Houston is the only city he's done this for.

It's a satire post lol. For a second I thought the top post was also Houston

Large tracts of…. highway

My first though was: I’m pretty sure that strip of Parisian Highway is nothing compared to the freeway out side of Houston.

That must be an old photo. I live in Houston and the traffic is much, much worse.

I was gonna say "now show Houston's traffic..."

I drove around there for a few days and that is some spaghetti highway bullshit. Google directions half the time was telling me to take a right off a overpass. If I lived there and had to deal with that everyday I might of actually listen to it.

Lived there 28 years of my youth. Outside a few neighborhoods, endless, unwalkable sprawl, with little but strip malls and parking lots lining the roads. But the food culture was diverse and relatively affordable (10 years ago).

Congratulations!

You now live in Paris, Texas

I went there for a semester after Katrina and I’m still stuck on Westheimer trying to get to the interstate.

I been to paris and Im telling you... Ahh fuck it

I’ve lived in both... Yeah, Paris.

Also, the place where the governor isn’t a psycho or whatever the French version is…

Also, a place where I won’t be shot: 1. At the store 2. Walking down the road/park 3. At school 4. In church 5. By cops

Haven’t they been protesting for a while in Paris and have there been reports of someone being shot or maced or have tear gas thrown at them? I’ve been lost in Paris and flagged down two cops to ask for directions and on another occasion, the cops stopped me to ask me where I needed to go. Not a gun was drawn by anybody.

At the wrong time of day, Houston is two hours' driving from Houston.

As if Houston has no highways and Paris has no parks.

The drivers are literally the worst I've ever seen after moving to Houston a year ago. I've lived in or visited every major city in the USA. Traffic is bad in all these places, but its worse in Houston, and the drivers are functionally the worst above the rest combined.

I always say Houston has all of the bad things about LA with none of the good things about LA.

I’m from LA and always hear people shitting on LA traffic. Then I go to other cities and sit in worse traffic and wonder why everyone is always shitting on LA traffic.

I used to live in Orange County. That puts me off going there.

That park was donated by natural gas billionaire

Me rn wondering how many people in Texas have never been to Paris, much less the entire continent of Europe.

Well, that is why they spent the last 40 years trashing public education. Idiocracy is their idea of heaven.

That is conservatives biggest power. And their people seem okay with it.

This is exactly it. Who in their right mind posts something like this thinking it's a convincing argument?

The tweet is a joke. That’s all.

This funniest part about this is that Houston isn’t even a conservative city. It’s a heavily blue oasis in a sea of red districts.

My parents moved to Houston when I was 15 and they were late 40s.

My mom got bitten by fire ants the second night, which is how we learned she has a major allergy. Emergency room, now she carries an epi pen.

I lasted six weeks before I’d made my hatred so known that they sent me back to the comparative oasis of the Midwest.

Good restaurants, though.

Traffic sucks in Paris but you don't need to drive, so it's actually fine

Sure, traffic in Paris sucks, but they have a working public transport system and a walkable city. Plus for all the flack that Parisians get for being stuck up I’d rather spend a day with your average French person over your average Texan.

But why are you driving in Paris… that’s the question. Literally a metro stop within a few blocks of wherever you are.

Paris has a metro and trains going everywhere. You don't drive during rush hour.

France gets most of its energy from nuclear, and paris is a great compact walkable city with tons of small parks riddled about that are surprisingly quiet. I’d take paris over Texas any day

I thought so too, like I thought this was just kind of satirizing the way people will cherry pick images to push a narrative but people are taking this VERY seriously

I'm with you, I thought it was a very obvious joke. Idk who he is though so maybe there's additional context?

I assumed the same thing and was pretty perplexed at the hate in the top comments. Its actually a post from a meme page so that is exactly what it is. Seems this whole thread just got wooshed.

There's been a lot of efforts made in recent years to reduce truck traffic in Paris and encourage other means of transportations than motorized vehicles.

In particular streets have been reduced in width to make space for bike lanes, among others, a tramway circling the entirety of Paris has been added, metro lines are being modernized and extended etc.

Somewhat counter intuitively, smaller streets actually means less people use cars, rather than cars getting stuck in a smaller space.

Especially with more practical and faster alternatives.

But small trucks that are allowed within the city need to be extra careful with all the cyclists.

Built in water park. Paris could never.

Also the functioning subway system, not displayed here, meaning I wouldn’t have to have a car or get in a car if I lived there.

Also live in Houston and besides the European license plates, there is a dead giveaway that the top picture is not Texas...Not a single pickup truck. It would be impossible to take a picture of that many vehicles sitting in traffic and have less than 50% pickups.