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Transit Tangents
Ep. 51: Houston - Transit Tour
Houston, the fourth-largest city in the U.S., is often seen as an endless maze of sprawling suburbs and ring roads. But is it really just a car-centric metropolis? In this episode, we challenge that perception by exploring Houston’s transit options—from light rail to buses—and discovering a city that might surprise you. Join us as we navigate the oil and gas capital’s transportation network and uncover a different side of Houston!
Doors are closing. Public transit that's my way to roll On the metro. I'm taking control. Bus stops, train tracks it's my daily grind, daily grind. Public transit, it's the rhythm of my life. Oh yeah, on this episode of Transit Tangents, we do Houston in a day using only public transit. What comes next may surprise you, as getting around Houston might be easier than you think. Get ready for buses, trains and more coming up on Transit Tangents. All right, it is about 4 pm. We're here in Houston, texas. We just did Houston in a day using only public transit.
Speaker 1:If you're watching this right now, you're going to see us ride lots of trains, a lot of buses. Honestly, impressions after the day. Houston surprised me big time.
Speaker 2:And, yeah, you'll be surprised by the frequency of rides. I don't want to spoil anything, so make sure that you stick through the episode. But, with all that being said, join us on our journey in Houston.
Speaker 1:So we are headed right now to Main Street Square Station. This is a really nice looking plaza though.
Speaker 2:It's a really nice plaza, and this is probably one that you've seen videos or pictures of from Houston, but we can kind of pan the camera out. There's this cool water feature to the plaza and the train goes right through the water feature.
Speaker 1:And it's definitely not giving Houston vibes of what you would expect from afar, it almost feels well.
Speaker 2:I think it's the weather. It feels very.
Speaker 1:Seattle right now. Yeah, the weather feels very Seattle and the transit feels very, not Houston, yeah.
Speaker 2:The frequency actually seems pretty good. I mean, in the last 10 minutes we've seen three trains go by. Yeah, so not bad.
Speaker 1:One thing I'm not seeing a spot that gives us like arrival times anywhere, which, if it were going to happen anywhere, it feels like the downtown stations would be the ones. Yeah, I don't see it anywhere. From Main Street Square, we boarded a redline train headed to NRG Stadium. With a viewer suggestion, we've also added periodic timestamps throughout our day to the video version of this episode. If you haven't liked this video or left a comment already, please consider doing so, and if you want to support the future of content like this on Transit Tangents, consider supporting us directly on Patreon. We have a long enough train ride. I'm able to do some work.
Speaker 2:So we have made it from the downtown Main Street Square Station to the Stadium Park slash Astrodome, which is pretty far down the red line.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, only one more. Stop past where we are right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as far as catching the train and the frequency goes, it was actually pretty quick. The trains were about every 8 to 10 minutes, so a big plus there. Getting a fare was kind of easy. There are two apps that you have to use in Houston. One is more of a trip planning app and the other is more for purchasing your ticket. That is the MetroQ app. So if you need to buy a ticket, you can download MetroQ. Very simple process you select the transit agency that you want to buy the ticket for, and then it was $3 for a day pass Right.
Speaker 1:You also we've noticed at every station basically we've seen they also have a spot where you can buy your tickets right on the platform. Nobody's checking your tickets when you're getting on the trains. I'm sure that sometimes they do. And then another thing we notice is there's been level boarding, I think, at every station we've seen so far, which is definitely a plus.
Speaker 1:But this is a stadium here for the Houston Texans. It's kind of just out of sight. This stadium right here is where the Astros used to play, that's the Astrodome. But NRG Stadium, which is where the Houston Texans play, is right over here and you can pretty easily take transit to the game. So yeah, so you know, once you cross the sea of parking lots, there's a lot of parking lots in between, a lot of parking. From NRG Stadium boarded another redline train making our way back towards downtown to stop at Herman Park and Rice University. All right, so we have made it to the Herman Park slash Rice University stop on the red line. Here Again, we just came up from NRG Stadium, kind of making our way back towards downtown. We passed through like a pretty dense medical park on the way. Chris looked it up as we were kind of going through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think anybody who's familiar with Houston should know about the Texas Medical Center. It's a massive area. There's over 60 health institutions packed into this area, over a hundred thousand employees working in this district and they have about 10 million patient visits annually to this center. It is the largest medical district in the world pretty impressive, and it's served by the by the Red Line. And it's served by the Red Line.
Speaker 1:I'm sure it's like a really useful way for folks to be able to get to work who work at the medical complex.
Speaker 2:And it's also surrounded by Rice University and the Herman Park area, which we're checking out now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's head over to Herman Park and look at that. We haven't even left the station and another train, and another Red Line train is actively pulling in, which is pretty. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's good, that's actually really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's hope Project Connect is as good.
Speaker 1:Yes, terrible luck with the fun trains. We could have had this amazing transfer from the red line, which again another one just drove by. I mean, we're talking like a couple minutes here and we've had several but we could have transferred on to the herman park railroad, the herman park railroad.
Speaker 2:But I have a feeling it's closed due to the weather. Yeah, it's pretty dreary today, ooooh. However, check this out. Thumbs down. Even even the miniature railroad has not bad timing. Up to a 30 minute wait for a small railroad, I mean. That's better than most cities nowadays, that's that's equivalent to the red line in Austin it is equivalent to the red line in Austin.
Speaker 1:So if you need to commute to your job as a gremlin in the park somewhere, so we are exploring Herman Park right now, which we got to on the red line.
Speaker 2:So far, we have seen several of the sites here. Herman Park is home to a Japanese garden. It's home to the zoo, a small amusement train, as well as a theater, a beautiful park space with this reflecting pool. It's a very nice area of Houston.
Speaker 1:And all the grounds are like very well kept. There's lots of like walking and running trails Like. This seems like a good spot if you wanted to go for a run, if you were on to take your kids to go for a bike ride, all that stuff you could do here.
Speaker 1:The Japanese garden was really well kept and nice and from here now we're gonna make our way and kind of cross back over to the other side of the street we're on and the red line to Rice University. We'll go walk around Rice for a bit and then from there we'll hop on another bus and bring you along with us Bus, another bus train bus.
Speaker 2:Lots of buses from here.
Speaker 1:What you looking at. He's not afraid. Oh my God, hey, thanks, you're gonna feed him. No, I'm not gonna feed you. Oh god, now I'm afraid we made it to Rice. Very, very nice little campus. Yeah, this quad is beautiful. Yeah, it's kind of I mean, we'll definitely try to find a nice drone shot of it but kind of like encapsuled in by all the buildings around. But, uh, rice has been here since 1912, 1912 I had chris tell me the day three times before 112 years old, um, and there's about 8 000 students here. Private research university uh, again, easy access to downtown houston on the red line has its own stop, um, and again, I can't reiterate this enough, how impressed I am with the frequencies of it, though every time we walk by there's like a train going by in both usually two trains, yeah, two trains at the station every time we come by.
Speaker 1:Um, so yeah, I mean the frequencies of like it's seemingly every eight minutes, maybe even better, um, kind of going right through the morning. Here we're not in like the rush hour commute or anything anymore. It's currently 10. Oops, it was 1104, it was 11.04. It is currently 11.04, so even at 11 o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday, still lots of trains going through From here. We are going to head to the Montrose neighborhood To do so. We're going to catch our first bus of the day, so we will head on over to the bus stop and start to figure that out, because we actually haven't looked specifically into it yet. We'll see if the bus is as frequent. Yes, something tells me that it probably won't be, but you never know, we could be pleasantly surprised here. So far, getting around Houston has been pretty easy. We just walked over from Rice over here to get on the 56 bus, which is what we're going to take to get us to Montrose. Chris, just looked it up the frequency on the transit app for this About every 20 minutes.
Speaker 2:We'll expect one here in 12 minutes.
Speaker 1:For those of you just listening. Next to the bus stop was a large digital screen, about eight feet tall, with information and ads circulating on it. Oh, that's the transit button. Whoa transit app.
Speaker 2:This is actually something that's pretty cool. So, this giant billboard thing. I noticed that it said touchscreen, so I touched it and we were able to click on transit and you can actually start to see some of the transit lines in this area. It tells you that you can download the transit app. You can ask it where you want to go. Wow, that's actually really cool.
Speaker 1:So we're trying to go to Montrose area and there we go, wait, press transit and see what if it says to do so for transit. That's exactly what we're doing, is we're taking the 56.
Speaker 2:We're not doing a transfer because we don't need to transfer here, but we are taking a 56 to Montrose. That's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 1:I've seen these in. When I was in New York, I saw these in New York City. Yeah, I didn't know that we had them in Houston, which is pretty awesome. What photo.
Speaker 2:That's hilarious. Wait, how do you take it?
Speaker 1:Press the big button two, one considering that this is not like a major stop. Nice that there's an actual shelter with a bench and a trash can not perfect, but better than nothing. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Speaker 2:Hey how's it going. Good, you too Cool Thanks.
Speaker 1:I love getting the bus shots from another bus. After a pretty efficient bus trip up to Montrose, we got off in a decent neighborhood to grab lunch At the stop. We noticed a unique small digital sign at the top of the bus stop giving real-time arrival info. It seems like an affordable way to offer that at bus stops and I'd love to see more of this in general. After lunch we played Frogger across a difficult to cross street and walked around the neighborhood to check out what housing was like in the area.
Speaker 2:So we finished up a nice lunch at the Citizens of Montrose Cafe. If you are in Houston, highly recommend it. Very good Pancakes were delicious. Also, we walked from there to Montrose, which is a pretty famous neighborhood in Houston. It's one of the more dense and walkable places in the city, so it really stands out. It's nice of the more dense and walkable places in the city, so it really stands out. It's nice and shaded. You have these beautiful giant oak trees all around. It's just a really, really nice neighborhood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and lots of different like housing types. Here You've got row homes, you've kind of row home looking things, apartments, some single family homes, all sorts of stuff very close together.
Speaker 2:This is the thing I don't understand about the people who are fighting. Housing in Austin is like this is acceptable, like there's nothing wrong with this being in a neighborhood, like this was absolutely, perfectly acceptable for a neighborhood, totally.
Speaker 1:And I mean it's just like think about like this in, for example, in Hyde Park in Austin, this would be one, maybe two houses that can house, like you know, two groups of people. Instead, you have like 10 places that people could live in here.
Speaker 2:You're putting a lot more density in a place that is still aesthetically pleasing and it's close to transit and close to a lot of other services around the city. Absolutely.
Speaker 1:All the different housing types and everything that we're kind of showing here in Houston will be an interesting one to keep an eye out for in the future. We're going to be doing an episode on kind of the importance between transit and housing together. We've got someone lined up for an interview from the Welcoming Neighbors Network, so stay tuned for that for a future video. Oh, look at this one Single family. But oh my god, that's. This is a speed hump, but for pedestrians.
Speaker 2:It's a sidewalk roller coaster.
Speaker 1:Yes, for Montrose, though we are going to be heading further west. We wanted to kind of go out and see what is known as the silver line here in Houston. The silver line is kind of a real BRT line, dedicated right of way, center, running nice looking stations and everything from what we can tell. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of cuts planned for that route, boo, most of it at the hands of the mayor, it seems like. But we're going to head in that direction and go ride it. It does still exist, but the frequencies are cut back to every 20 minutes. Some of the buses are different, I guess. So we're going to head over to the Galleria Mall from here, and that's where we will number one, see what is a giant mall it's a giant mall, yeah and also go and check out the silver line. So we're headed to the 82 bus 82 bus on the way there.
Speaker 2:Oh, there's a bus. Do we know where the next? Oh, is that it. We can go to the cat expo. Cat expo, there's a sign for cat expo the light changed.
Speaker 1:Ah it wouldn't be a city in a day using only public transit episode if we didn't have to run at least once. Ah yes, he got caught, you got yours. Yeah, I didn't get the camera out. There you go, made it we. Uh, yeah, almost missed that one, but the good news was on this 82 bus we didn't look at the frequency beforehand and it seems like a bus was gonna come like every eight minutes or something.
Speaker 2:It was really quick. We saw one bus go by and we were kind of meandering down the street thinking we had plenty of time, and then we literally had to run to the next stop because the bus was coming up behind us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Um, so I mean overall I mean that's several routes we've seen right now with better than 10 minute frequencies and they've actually been kind of coming at that pace, which is not what I was expecting for being here. Uh, kind of significantly better frequencies than most routes in Austin, including the rapid routes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've been really lucky on frequency of transit today, being able to get around town fairly quickly. So we made it from the Montrose neighborhood and we're now in the Galleria area or uptown, which is a pretty nice area of town. There's a lot of like really nice shopping here, as you can see behind us. The infrastructure itself is a little bit nicer. You know, you have more artistic sort of bus stops, you'll see. This is where the BRT Silver Line is located. We're going to see what state it's in in just a few minutes. But yeah, it's been a pretty easy trip so far, yeah.
Speaker 1:Here's for the city nerd viewers. Here's a fun thing. I don't have the zoom lens on right now, but there's a Cheesecake Factory right there. And viewers, here's a fun thing. I don't have the zoom lens on right now, but there's a cheesecake factory right there. And uh, yo, chris is not a true. See, I'm the more city nerd fan here. Chris doesn't even get the joke. You guys can roast chris in the comments for not understanding the. Uh, so it's 1 38. Uh, it looks like we've got a bus coming in about nine minutes. Uh, and we'll get to check out this really nice looking brt line again, despite some controversy, with it being cut back a little bit. So we've alluded to this a couple times about this BRT line, but initially this was supposed to launch with I believe it was 8-minute service, 8 to 12-minute service. This is probably the nicest BRT infrastructure in the city of Houston. It's, frankly, the nicest BRT infrastructure I've seen in the United States In the States for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've seen the BRT in Bogota. Obviously that's like a whole other level, but in the last it was in June of this year the mayor, among others, who he has appointed to the board for Metro, has cut the service on this back to every 20 minutes. They've also gotten rid of the articulated buses on this line, and some of it makes sense, while some of it doesn't right. So this BRT line does not run to downtown Houston. It kind of runs between two transit centers. However, the plan in the future is for it to connect to longer, bigger, better BRT lines that go from those transit centers into downtown. Unfortunately, along with the kind of service reductions on this, we're also seeing, frankly, the removal of plans for these other future BRT lines.
Speaker 2:This is why we call John Whitmer, the Texas multimodal transit massacrist. Yes, if you go back to our Top 10 transit villains episode.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly I think I think the plan for this though. So the silver line runs this western side of town, in uptown, near the galleria. It starts at one transit center in the north, it ends at another transit center, sort of in the south, and I think if if you had rapid transit and we'll find out but if you have rapid transit from those two service centers, then getting from here, where there's a lot of apartments, to downtown maybe not so bad right, because we do know that the line we're going to try to take at the north transit center is an express direct to downtown, right and I think, I think the future lines would have had dedicated lanes, essentially express, direct from those places, whereas right now we'll just be mixing with traffic.
Speaker 1:But, um, overall, I mean this is really beautiful. I hope that it stays. Um, I've heard that some of this might be actually being pulled out I don't, I don't know, that would be insane.
Speaker 2:It's too pretty to pull out. Yeah, yep, the bus that you see here is surprisingly short, and we believe that's because the buses that were actually intended to use this entire platform, which which would be the long articulated buses, or, as us in CapMetro like to call them, the Bindi buses those buses have been repurposed for other lines in Houston. I gotta pull out my um.
Speaker 1:If you haven't liked this video or left a comment already, please consider doing so. It helps us out quite a bit and if you want to support the future of content like this on Transit Tangents, consider supporting us directly on Patreon. So we made it to the Northwest Transit Center on the Silver Line. Yeah, silver Line. I mean it's a shame that it's like kind of not a very well-used route, that it's been scaled back all of this stuff, but like it's just that we had a lot of promise and there were sections of it that did feel more true BRT, like when we were kind of going over the interstate.
Speaker 2:We didn't even touch the interstate really.
Speaker 1:No, we had our own dedicated lanes in the middle, but there wasn't a lot of transit priority there, but overall, pretty cool. Um, from here we're gonna catch a bus to downtown. A little bit of confusion as to where exactly we need to go and what bus is next. The signs are not super fantastic, but this is definitely like a busy little transit hub yeah, it's nice, it's clean yeah it's getting used, I mean to work in.
Speaker 1:We're like mid afternoon at this point, so, uh, speaking of the time it is, it is 208, 208. Uh, the bus is gonna be here in 14 minutes. Ish, question mark, uh. Transit apps is one thing, google maps is another. This sign says nothing, yep, uh, so we'll see what happens, we'll find out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there has been a theme around Houston where we keep seeing actual nice bike infrastructure. There's like nice dedicated bike lanes in some parts of town. We just passed over a bridge that had a nice dedicated bike lane that was like separated from the main bridge. So it seems like there is a good opportunity for cycling in town. Also, the bayous We'll highlight on the map for those watching the where the bayous run through town and how those can be interconnected bikeways as well. But what we don't see are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, unfortunately there's no bike share Right we?
Speaker 2:did have bike share in Houston until June.
Speaker 1:Yes and again kind of recurring theme of certain services and whatnot being cut. The bike share program has been fully axed, doesn't exist anymore, no plans for it to exist in the future. So as people coming to visit from out of town, you really don't have a biking option. Now there are scooters and stuff available, but if I'm being honest, I don't know that I've seen any.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen any scooters so far At all? Yeah, minor correction. From everything I can tell, it seems like the scooters like what we see in other cities, like Lime Bird and all those aren't legal in Houston and if they are, correct us. But we haven't seen them and from what I could see on Reddit, people are saying that they've been banned. So that eliminates another microtransit option.
Speaker 1:Yeah, essentially none, no, no micro transit Very fancy.
Speaker 2:So with this being more of an express bus with no stops between the transit center and downtown, I think you get a more standard sort of like traveler commuter bus Right, yeah, I mean there's less less people getting on and off at each stop. Less stops Way higher capacity Way higher capacity and a more comfortable ride for a longer distance.
Speaker 1:I think and I would imagine in the morning commute and the evening commute these buses probably have a lot more people on them. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, it's a little hard to show, but we're currently on an express lane like an HOV lane that the buses get to to use, kind of above a lot of the traffic.
Speaker 2:It's not dedicated for buses, but these are also a lot of the newer towns I was talking about. So we left the transit center. As we showed you, the bus was actually a different style of bus. We think that's because it's more of a commuter and we pretty much sailed above the traffic. So what normally a car probably would have taken could be 30 minutes, given traffic or more. We sort of sailed above the traffic and ended really well on timing getting down here.
Speaker 1:So really smooth, comfortable ride from here we're going to hop on the green line, which is one of the metro rails in houston, here, and we're going to hop on the Green Line, which is one of the metro rails in Houston, here, and we're going to go by both Minute Maid Park, which is where the Astros play, as well as where the soccer team here in Houston plays. So we're going to actually go to the soccer stadium. We'll check that out and then make a couple stops on the way. After a quick transfer, we hopped on a Green Line train. We've ridden so much traffic today.
Speaker 2:It's good we are trains and tangents.
Speaker 1:And this is the goal. It just like feels extra.
Speaker 2:Today, I feel like, time-wise, cumulatively, we've spent more than usual and we've also made it across town, like significant distances Way easier than I expected us to Totally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, town like significant distances. Yeah, way easier than I expected us to totally wow, where are we? This doesn't feel like Houston to me.
Speaker 2:It's not what I thought of as Houston, the energy oil capital of the world.
Speaker 1:I know it thought of as Houston, the energy oil capital of the world. I know it honestly well. What's hilarious the energy oil capital of the world. Look who sponsors the soccer stadium yeah, yeah, yeah, we're ignoring that part.
Speaker 2:For these nice trains, this episode, are sponsored by Lewis's partner, jerry. So thank you, jerry. Thank you Jerry.
Speaker 1:Thank you, jerry. Thank you, jerry, as a fan of jet lag, the game, the YouTube channel we entered the snack zone there. Welcome to the snack zone. They were trying these Snacks on reference. If you haven't watched that, you, you guys, if you're watching this, you probably would like Jet Lag. All right, so we, just after entering the Snack Zone, we made it to Shell Energy Stadium, which is where the Houston Dynamo soccer team plays. Yep.
Speaker 2:It's also very close to Minute Maid Stadium, which you can see a block away just across the highway. And Minute Maid Stadium is where can see a block away just across the highway.
Speaker 1:And Minute Maid Stadium is where the Houston Astros play baseball.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's kind of like one of the stadium districts of Houston. Absolutely, we did jump on the green line after getting off the last bus and rode it basically across downtown to get to this point. We didn't spend a lot of time on the green line, we just wanted to show you the experience of that train, but we didn't actually take it the full extent of the line like we did the red line and the, the green line and the purple line kind of run together here for a while before splitting off.
Speaker 1:Uh, one fun feature that I noticed as we were doing it. I'll show you the footage of it, and also like from above. Uh, they're running down one-way streets for a while and then, where they converge, one side of it actually like cuts through a building to connect through which I thought that's kind of pretty cool yeah yeah, neat feature.
Speaker 1:These lines do continue to go out for quite a ways. Just purely from like scrolling through google maps and stuff, it seems like the potential for transit oriented development and whatnot further out is there, but right now it's mostly just like single family zoning not it's's actually no zoning since Houston, but it's mostly single-family homes and whatnot all throughout the area. These trains are a little bit shorter than the red line that we were on this morning. Those were kind of double double the length of these ones, yeah, but the platforms here look like they're long enough to have bigger trains for the future. I'm sure when there's games and stuff they could run bigger trains during the future.
Speaker 2:I'm sure when there's games and stuff going on.
Speaker 1:They could probably do that. They could run bigger trains during games. For sure you also have. Which university is out here? Is it University?
Speaker 2:of Houston. Yeah, University of Houston is also down the purple line, I believe.
Speaker 1:Yes, yep, so kind of another thing that is serviced by these lines. But now we're going to walk actually under the highway here. This highway is actually talked about in City Limits, a book by Megan Kimball that we've talked about a couple times on the channel. This highway is one of several in the state of Texas currently being widened, but we figured we'll walk under it and there's actually quite a few places that are being torn down for the highway expansion, so we'll kind of walk that direction. This is some of the area that there was housing here. Txdot essentially came through and tore it down so that eventually this highway can be expanded.
Speaker 1:And I don't know if this is related, but all of this looks like it's about to be demolished as well, which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 2:So downtown Houston actually does have a unique feature, which is a system of tunnels that currently connects 95 city blocks. The tunnel started in 1930s when it connected two theaters and just sort of exploded in growth after that, and it's this whole other layer of city among the city, and so we're gonna go check it out and also important to note some of the tunnels are also like skyways too yes, there's a large collection of tunnels and skyways.
Speaker 1:I was like this is really funny. Chris is pointing to the tunnel, but it's in the air. It's a tunnel in the sky, it's an air tunnel we navigated our way into the tunnel system through a maze under the city. I'd try, try to map it, but I was totally lost the entire time. Eventually we ended up where I'd catch my bus back to Austin, All right. So after a long walk through the tunnels, we just navigated like an absolute maze of tunnels and sky bridge things.
Speaker 2:Several city blocks More than several. I mean a lot, Definitely confusing at times.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's pretty cool, though there's also all sorts of like uh shops and things and coffee shops and food courts and things throughout the way, some signage, some lack of signage, a little bit of everything, um, but yeah, pretty, pretty cool. Yeah, I mean overall, though I mean big day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're ending the day now at 349. Yep, uh, lewis is actually about to jump on a von which you can't see. It's just out of the shot. Yep, to head back to Austin, yeah.
Speaker 1:Overall, though, my impressions were that it was way easier to get around Houston using only transit Yep.
Speaker 2:Buses came really frequently. They were really easy to navigate the city on Yep.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I couldn't get over the frequency, frankly like the best frequency we have experienced in in doing this show, yeah, and that's like Salt Lake city, new Orleans, uh, austin, san Antonio.
Speaker 1:Houston's frequencies were definitely the best. Yep, um, again, you know, let's not say that there aren't issues. It's not to say that it's not hard to use it on your day to day. Maybe we got lucky I don't know If you're from Houston or you've ridden transit here. Definitely let us know. A lot of potential if the right leadership was in place. Agreed, but unfortunately right now it seems like the right leadership is not in place. Also a little bit of a bummer that there's no bike share of any kind, and not to mention that, but also there's scooters.
Speaker 2:There's no microility because there's no bike share and there's no scooters. So if you hit that end of line service or you just need that to make that little extra gap, there's no way to actually do that, unless you live here and can have your own stuff.
Speaker 1:But it's like that's not doable You're going to be walking a lot, but overall, yeah, I mean, that's Houston in a day using only public transit. These episodes take a lot of effort and time to do, and if you want to find a way to try to support us, the best way to do so is via our patreon. We're gaining momentum there and getting more and more folks. We want to see more people in the discord, because it's a little lonely. There's only a couple of us. So if you want to help support that, uh, when, when you become a patreon member, you also get access to the members only discord.
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Speaker 2:Tuesday Cool.