It's called understanding the right of way. Merging traffic should be yielding and merging when appropriate. The "courteousness" is why the traffic is so bad and why there are so many accidents.
I literally drive this exact entire route on my commute to work 5 days out of the week lol…. We have a lot of lanes out here yet we still have a lot of traffic every single day especially during rush hour (3pm - 7pm)
If you’ve lived in Houston more than a few years and commute regularly, you become well adapted for the roads. You learn how to traverse lanes and seamlessly keep up with the flow without even thinking about it. Anyone not used to it can be quickly spotted and is usually avoided like the plague. The most experienced drivers, 10 yrs +, usually know all the secrets - all alternate routes, the way the lights are timed, and that 99% of all highway accidents will be completely cleared within minutes and it’s better to just stay on rather than exit and get stuck in the feeder lanes.
All at the cost of destroying the environment, propping up the fossil fuels industry, and what else? Depave the planet. And I say that as a Houston veteran driver. F*ck all of this sh*t.
@@Texas-Made I am from Houston. I live n Houston. My gas prices looking like 2008 gas prices. And Houston designed this city to keep us from riding bikes, and dependent on fossil fuels.
Hahaha, you are so right. Being in Texas for more than 50yrs, and there are some crazy a$% drivers. If you're new to the area, best you tour the town in NON rush hr traffic. You can not be a Sunday driver in Houston, EVER.😁
I was in Houston last month. You’re right it’s huge - very spread out. But the people seemed very friendly and there’s a lot of diversity. There seems to be a lot going on there in terms of construction, development, and the job scene. It a happening place.
Don't get fooled about Houston this city has some of the most aggressive drivers people driving a 100 mph. Almost everyday it's a road rage shooting out here. I live on the Westside of Houston. I'm glad y'all enjoyed my city and safe travels.
@@AreaThirteenThirteen it’s been going down drastically since now they’re taking away cars and suspending licenses over stuff like simple road rage but you can never say never
Think that's a bit of a stretch. I've lived in Houston my entire life and have never seen a road rage shooting. Not to say it doesn't happen but let's not act like it's the wild west out here
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS They’re reaching with this. Houston has parts that are a little more dangerous than others as every major city does but for the most part it’s not a bad city to live in.
What fascinates me about Houston is that it is considered the most diverse city in the US (except maybe NYC). Like, I would not expect such a place in Texas.
My hometown. Born but not raised. They have been working on the roads since the early 80's. Never ending road construction. Massive improvements. Brutal in the summer.
@@Gltokensp06 - Yeah my dad was a funny guy and a genuine butt hole. Born in southwest Louisiana-- Air Force and then a 55 plus year Houstonian. RIP dad.
No its never gonna be great! Because of the shit they done to houston! Lack of entertainment Lack of tourists spots Heavy traffic Downtown always empty Lack of skyscaper buildings Hardly any public ads or billboards Too many freeways Tax infested city Freeways too wide All they care about is the classic stuff like grow up houston!
Houston has 38 skyscrapers. LA is literally right behind it and catching up with 32. San Francisco has 28. Houston has been somewhat stagnant. Not much skyscraper growth. Maybe that’ll change later.
When I lived in Houston, I lived on the west side, right off of 1-10 and Dairy Ashford (which you drove past). I worked in central Houston inside Loop 610. I had a manual shift VW GTI at the time. I would be driving like a fool zipping in and out of rush hour traffic with all those lanes to play with hahahahaha! It was great fun! On a side note, it truly is a civil engineering masterpiece!
Houston has lost a lot of palms trees in the historic Texas freeze last February, and has been losing a lot of palms due to the Texas Phoenix palm decline. That disease had whipped out a ton of Canary Island dates, Medjool dates, Mexican fan, sabal palmettos, and queen palms. But that 2021 freeze took a major toll on an already declining palm population in the Houston area. I'm originally from Florida, and Houston has never had as many palms as Florida or Cali, but we use to have a fair share primarily around businesses and people's private home lots.
Personally, I do not like, or care anything about palm trees. I have never known Houston, or surrounding areas to have very many. We lived in a neighborhood off of Edgebrook, back in the 70's. The backyard where we lived, had a huge palm tree in it. My dad hated it. He said that roaches nested in it. He cut it down, and had it ground out. It was an eyesore.
Good job,guys. Yep, that road is insane! Take it easy , you'll get there. I live 1.5 miles north at Bunker Hill exit. You can hear the hiway roar! 5 freeway lanes each way, 2 toll lanes each way, 4 access road lanes each way, not counting entrance and exit lanes. 26 lanes !
I live a few blocks from Bunker Hills and I-10 absolutely you can hear the noise that’s coming from the freeway way all day long but I love Houston even though we have to deal with traffic every day…
As a Houstonian, I’m well adapted to that area on I-10 especially during the rush hour sheesh. Also where y’all said “this has to be it.” at 23:15 y’all are correct that’s the point of the widest spot.
I live in kingwood suburb northeast Houston. Houston has some beautiful areas. Dont just use common since, there are certainly areas you want to avoid. Probably currently the highest murder rate per capita. Houston heights is an eclectic area. Peace!
My daughter moved to Houston six months ago. I don't think I'll ever be able to find my way when I visit without my GPS. Although, it seems to take me a different way each time.🤔
I'm older now and don't drive anymore and enjoy car videos, but so many of them are just angry drivers ready to lay on the horn - how refreshing to ride along with you guys. A good respectful driver that isn't looking for revenge at every corner. You're a good defensive driver. Love you guys and really enjoyed the video. New subscriber here and best of luck to you both. ♥
I live near the Buccees in Katy you drove by. Fun to hear a visitor's point of view about our city and the highways. I drive I-10 every day just in the Katy area. I avoid going into Houston unless necessary.
I just moved from west Houston right near Katy. I rarely left that area since everything was close. Now in the south area and everything is atleas one freeway stop over which is crazy at rush hour.
Apples and oranges dfw metroplex includes 11 countys and 3 major citys fort worth being a hour away lol greather houston includes 9 countys and 2 suburbs. Dallas and Houston would be a better comparison and Houston almost doubles Dallas sq miles
@@ma.higiniablancoblanco1380 Srry but can't compare houston to a city tht depends on its metro area 100% of the time Houston Atlanta Chicago miami && L.A. or all in the same league && Dallas shouldn't even be apart of tht conversation periodt🥱🤷♂️
Houston went on a building boom in the 80s and was the 3rd largest skyline at one time. Miami over took it around the early 2000s when it went on a highrise condos building boom. Driving in from 288 you can see all 4 business centers lined up. Uptown, Tx Med Center, Greenway & downtown together creates a big panoramic skyline. Driving from SW Houston north bound on I-69 into town will give you a good view of the Uptown skyline. The Tx Med center is about the size of Downtown Louisville but it's only visible from certain freeway. As for the Katy freeway, some stretch has 7 lanes, 2 HOT lanes and 4 feeder lanes going West bound. Another set of these going East bound for a total of 26 if you count in the feeder lanes.
@@tx_7134 yeah in general Houstonian would refer to it as the Galleria area. When it comes to urban planning, special taxes & Federal grants, it's commonly refer as Uptown district
@@tx_7134 maybe from your experience but I run across people referring it to both Uptown or the Galleria area. I have friends that lived in the Amli Uptown apartments and looking to move into the Uptown Oaks condo. Every year we attend the Uptown lighting ceremony. We shop at Uptown park and dine at Uptown Sushi. There's even an Uptown hookah bar if you're into that. Or just Google the Galleria area & you'll see Uptown/Galleria area
I ride that hwy from hwy 6 to 610 west and vice versa after work. But I always use the toll or HOV because the traffic causes you such a delay. Usually travel time with peak traffic is 45 minutes. Without traffic 15 minutes. Wow I forgot to add that my wife’s father was a hydraulic engineer during the design of that stretch of the freeway. Their job was to help with the design so that water wouldn’t puddle up on the freeway. Thanks for reading that and enjoy Houston. 🤘🏽
It's very cool, just like any other highway but, still… adding more lanes won’t solve rush hours, congestion, maybe even car crashes. Still very nice of a highway in my opinion, one of my favorites in America.
I been living in Katy for a year now n I saw you pass my street haha! I do more freeway driving here than CA for sure and im more relaxed driving it ! awesome video!
Lived here my whole life, there’s always car accidents when everyone is going home from work, it gets a lot of traffic, I live around memorial city and it gets alittle packed but it’s awesome to drive in
Beltway 8 around Houston is something like a 369 mile radius. Houston land wise is one of the largest cities in the world. We live south of Houston near JSC.
@@thebabbler8867 with less than half of the population that’s the crazy part but it’s because London is congested and stacked on top of each other Houston is very car dependent like most of America and on top of that it’s spreaded out, neighborhood yards are huge in Houston especially for a big city.
Yes it it. Just have plenty of patience (for the bad traffic & distracted drivers) & plenty of water to drink in your vehicle (the middle of spring to the middle of the fall humidity+heat index=actual feel like temperatures can be BRUTAL ON THE BODY) and you'll have a good time 👍👍.
Never, ever go to Houston or Texas for that matter in the summer months. The best time to go is from mid-March until April 21. I point out the date in April because it's San Jacinto Day. A person could spend a whole day at the San Jacinto Monument. As a sidenote:If perhaps your married, a trip to Washington on the Brazos is a bonus. Especially when the bluebonnets are in bloom. It is about 60-70 miles northwest of H-town. Most people don't realize that Houston is the fourth largest city in the U.S. And also the largest city in the South. I would recommend not driving during rush hour, morning or evening. Good Luck if you visit my hometown.Take care and GOD bless!
@@brandonthomas4175 sadly true & thank god for the speed limit to slow people down just a little bit. I swear if the speed limit didn't exist, people would drive between 60-100 mph ,on every road down here!!
that construction through brookshire and sealy never ends. that been going on for ever. katy expanded so much that parts of katy are now considered brookshire
I really enjoyed the video bro, I would like you upload more videos driving and at same time talking whatever topic you want, currently I’m improving my English listening!
Fun Fact: Houston is home to the most African American millionaires in the country. More African American millionaires live in Houston than all of New York and Los Angeles combined.
I’ve been living here all my life, and I never knew this fun fact of Houston having the widest freeway, & do not ride on the freeways here I take all the stop signs. I don’t feel safe in the freeways.
Most of the travelers on the road in the video don't live anywhere near this downtown area. Most People live 30 to 70 miles away in the suburbs, so they drive anywhere from 60 to 140 miles total to work and back per day! Everything is bigger in Texas!
Can't blame em. So many people work in the petrochemical industry in that part of the country, and nobody want's to live close to those refineries and plants.
Miami has more buildings over 500 feet tall than Houston does. However, Miami's tallest building (Panorama tower at 869 feet in height) would be the 4th tallest building in Houston. The tallest build in Houston is JP Morgan Chase tower at 1,002 feet in height.
Texas has an amazing highway system. I went thru central Dallas, at night, and was amazed at how easy it was to do so and continue west on a day when I drove over 700 miles from Alabama stopping somewhere west of Dallas so I would not have to deal with commute traffic. In Phoenix, our most recent major freeway is the "South Mountain" freeway, the completed loop 202, which keeps long distance truck traffic from going thru our downtown tunnel. It diverts drivers from eastbound I-10 then reunites them about 20 miles later avoiding all the downtown traffic, even passing a big casino along the way which has its own exit. It took years to complete but has changed our traffic patterns in Phoenix. I worked as a tourism systems instructor in Houston a couple of times and enjoyed the people who worked for my clients. On my second trip there, my colleague and I drove to Galveston and really enjoyed its main attraction, which had an indoor rainforest and Imax theater. Living in Arizona is like Texas but we actually feel cooler, because we are drier, lol.
First off. I’m not reading all that. But how did Dallas get in the conversation b and I’m willing to bet you were in a another city but think it’s ‘Dallas’ smh. It’s not all Dallas. Or you can say dfw. But you saying west of Dallas then it’s not Dallas. You have major cities like Fort Worth and Arlington. But it’s not all Dallas.
I was born and raised in Houston they did nothing but build build build build build and expand all these freeways but yet still overcrowded and still no train system. that’s why I’m so glad I long left out of that madhouse place
I'm from Houston Houston pretty much has three downtowns lol but I live 30 minutes away from Houston in Cleveland tx. Houston is upgrading everything to run down neighborhood's etc due to population increasing rapidly but at night looks totally different with all the lights but downtown looks even more amazing at night.
The 26 lanes inckude the service and tolls roads as well. Just an FYI. Its between 610 and the beltway. Thats the widest stretch. I find it interesting myself, being a native Houstonian.
From Western Nebr. Im ALWAYS drivn thru here to see relatives, friends, here in H-town, San Anton, Corpus Christi, & Harlingen, Mc Callen, day or night, and I jus love ITTTTTTT!!!!! For their are always functions, here in TEXAS, concerts, rodeos, train shows, ect even in the dead of winter, you never see that back home where I'm from, 😭. (And never get tired of it. I LOVE TEXAS, 💞💓😍 ITS A WHOLE OTHER WORLD)!!!👍
Like the other guy said, I have driven this so much I feel like I could do it with my eyes closed. I remember my brother took a date driving the 610 loop to look at the night skyline. He was cheap lol.
Thats nowhere near the widest stretch of highway in the world.I have been on highways in China over 50 lanes wide each direction. After I came back from China all I can think of is how petite and cute USA highways are and how few vehicles are on them. Everywhere is like driving in the countryside even in those highways that circle around major cities. You are never far away from a blade of grass or a tree in the usa. I lived in a building in China where from the roof all you could see around you is the tops of buildings as far as the eyes could see in all directions with no trees and no grass in sight for miles and miles and miles and it felt like it was like that no matter how many miles you went in any direction you could never find a single blade of grass or a single tree because its all packed with buildings and roads.
I live in Houston born and raised our traffic starts at 4:00 am ends at 11:00 am then stars back up at 12:30-1:00 o'clock and don't end till 7-8 at night. When here drive like us or get ran over on the highways it may say 60 MPH but we doing 70-80 MPH.
Im born and raised definitely proud of this city, Houston has 3 skylines if remember he said the single building to the left that is Smith Tower at The Galleria, coming from 288 South, then the buildings in the middle that is The Medical Center with Reliant Stadium in sight aswell and the bigger set of the buildings to the right is Downtown Houston, depending on what over pass you are on, on 288 South you can get a perfect picture of the entire 3 Skyline. Remember if you are on 610 your on a loop if your on I-10 you will cut across the city, East to Louisiana and West will take you to Katy. Love the video 📹
The best barbecue in Texas is in Lockhart Texas. There's a place called Black's Barbecue and there's a place called Kreuz BBQ. I live in Houston and we got a lot of good barbecue spots but in Texas that's where I would say the best barbecue is. In Houston Hoots Smokehouse on Canal Street in East downtown. Best stuffed baked potato. They actually give you more meat than potato there LOL you should try it next time you come by. Good video, and I did like the fact that you got to experience or wonderful traffic jams LOL
30 year resident from elsewhere. The problem with wide lanes is that eventually you have to drop them. And it doesn't really matter where you choose to drop the lane(s), that's where the traffic jam will have moved to. And when you build a new lane, suddenly, a bunch of land that had been too far out for development looks juicy to a developer. New neighborhood, traffic increases, they build more lanes. Wash, rinse, repeat.
This used to be 3 main lanes, 2 frontage, and 1 HOV each way. It would stay congested throughout the day outside of rush hours, worse than 610 Galleria or 290 at that time too. Now it’s only congested during rush hours.
Houston is crazy large people a lot of clubs and bars and strips clubs also what we call strips like other cities but we have a lot of strips the o.s.t strip,the richmond strip, the westheimer strip, the washington avenue strip just a few that I use to roam so much to do in Houston with a large freeway system but traffic gets stupid
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Traffic. Houston is a major metro area with millions of people, yet it's horrendously unwalkable, and it's public transportation system is terrible compared to other metro areas like Amsterdam or Melbourne. Houston keeps spending billions on freeway widening and road projects, yet traffic just becomes worse and worse. High time the city invests in some serious rail and BR, along with improvements to pedestrian & bicycle infrastructure and reform of land use laws (which, contrary to common misconception, do exist in Houston). Only then can you reduce traffic.
Widest and wildest crossing all 4 lanes to exit driving off the free way down the grass embankment to the feeder road,street bike stunts during rush hour, live action shoot outs in traffic ect.... it's great
Hey sir look if you pass the hospital tower in spring branch that is the memorial hermann and also the one next by the memorial hermann hospital there is mall is called memorial city mall.
Just that section of I-10 is wide, INCLUDING the feeders (frontage rds). It's best to get this info from Txdot. Houston is larger than Dallas. Y'all stay safe.
Quite interesting, that the drive include the freeways but once you get off and start driving on the street level... well lets put it this way most of the driving videos are mostly on the expressway because the street roads are nothing to be desired
Houston’s traffic is awful now, it was doable but too many people have moved here, it’s not pleasant to drive in the city anymore, it takes forever to get anywhere and that is the truth
