Throwback - Part Two
Throwback - Part One
Make note of this DiR - rarely do I come to the defense of Houston, or Texas for that matter, but I am trying to get my charitable acts out of the way early this year, so here is a checkmark for that list.
The snotty, condescending New York City attorneys today were blasting Houston for it’s “poorly named freeways with confusing directions.” Really? There are many, many faults I can find with the fourth largest city in America, but why pick freeway names? I now present, for your reading pleasure, a list (off the top of my head) of the popular names of some of the more major expressways in the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown MSA:
North Freeway
Eastex Freeway
East Freeway
Pasadena Freeway
Gulf Freeway
South Freeway
Southwest Freeway
West Park Toll Road
Katy Freeway
Northwest Freeway
249
Loop 610
and Beltway 8 / Sam Houston Tollway
For comparison’s sake, digging back into my childhood memories, here is a list of the major roads in Dallas that I can think of:
North Central Expressway
Julius Schepps Freeway
LBJ
Stemmons
The Airport Freeway
Tom Landry Highway
I-20
I-30
George Bush
North Dallas Tollway
Or, lastly, a Wikipedia list of the Expressways in New York City:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Expressways_in_New_York_City
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The moral of the story: While I don’t hold Houston in the highest regard, it really does baffle me when Angelinos and New Yorkers come here and complain about aspects that Houston and their native city actually share.
