>>1794894Alright I’m either seeking vindication or I’m looking to be called a retard and learn a lesson. I live in Houston. I rarely go downtown. But this cheap ass city refused to spend the money for an above-ground light rail system, so instead they figured the best compromise was to build a shared-road train network in the med center/downtown region. Now is it the worst thing? No. MOST of the track is dedicated for the train. Occasionally, though, there are shared roads and turn lanes that sit on the railroad. I know it’s SUPPOSED to be well-marked and tell you when a train is coming but I can’t help but be stressed out every time I go downtown. For example, you’ll get in a turn lane but the light takes 6 minutes 22 seconds (timed it) to turn green and the WHOLE TIME you are sitting there you’re shitting your pants checking your mirrors for a train. It’s not like you can bail out of the way either—you have cross traffic running perpendicular to you and you have about 40 cars next to you waiting at the stop light because it’s taking for fucking ever to turn green. They also have shared road segments that let you in and you drive ON THE TRAIN TRACK with barriers on both sides for like half a mile… no way out of it once you get on. The whole thing is fucking stupid for an area with constant grid lock car traffic. Am I just a retard? Is this supposed to be way more straight forward of a system?
Asking because it’s looking like they are going to expand the metro system to the outer city on roads I actually drive on often and I’m shitting my pants at the thought of having more turn lanes on an active rail road
