kjmillig

I caught part of this segment on the radio today. If Houston could be even partly that bike friendly...
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...36910&ft=1&f=2

mike

Cool. Did you hear the stat;

About 1% of trips made in the USA are done by bicycle. 1%!

My hat is off to Portland and the work they are doing to make their city bicycle friendly and to promote bicycle use.

Rex G

kjmillig, parts of Houston are very bike-friendly, and walkable in the way described in the radio segment. Montrose, the Heights, Midtown, the Museum District, and Upper Kirby come to mind. Older neighborhoods,. where shops, stores, and restaurants remain integrated into residential areas do exist, and are coming back into vogue. Of course, this means real estate is getting expensive in those places, but then, guys I know spend several hundred dollars a month on gas now, to add insult to the injury of commutes lasting over an hour.

I lived in Upper Kirby, on a quiet street just off Westheimer, from 1998 to 2001. Grocery stores and restaurants were close enough to reach without breaking a sweat. Life was good. When the wife insisted on selling the house, to buy her brother's place in Bellaire, I very nearly walked out of the marriage. (The house was her separate property, so I could not stop it, and anyone with M.D. after their name tends to do as they please.)

Bellaire is actually quite bike-friendly, but we live deep in the area zoned residential, with not even a convenience store being much less than a mile away. I miss Upper Kirby.

Rex G

The Bushes are Yankees who came to Texas for business reasons. Derned immigrants!

grayloon

You can also do quite well on bikes in a number of the outlying suburbs of Houston. I can get around Kingwood and go almost anywhere without getting on one of the major roads except to cross, and that's not even using the 75 miles of paved green belt trails. Woodlands folk seem to do well too. Yes, it can be unfriendly at times on the main roads, but its the same in most major urban areas.

theWolf

I like riding around downtown Houston. With one ways that have two to three lanes, it's easy to take a lane and ride it.

Congrats to Portland, I hope Houston can make that cultural change.