Houston: where people would rather get in an accident than let you merge

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.

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.

This city is so big it takes 1 hour 20 minutes from east point to west point. It's huge.

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.

Not just the widest but the wildest, nowadays one wrong move and the bullets are flying in your direction.

Miami skyline is bigger because of skyrise apartments. But Houston has more office buildings.

The Katy Bucess set a world record for longest car wash. It also has 120 gas pumps.

Enjoy texas. But #1 rule don’t compare Texas to any other southern state, Florida, Georgia or Alabama etc. Texans will get pissed!

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.

From 288 coming into the city, you can see four of Houston’s seven skylines: Downtown, Medical Center, Greenway Plaza and Uptown.

Driving 'across town' in Houston can be two hours at low traffic. 665sq miles, and that doesn't include 'burbs.

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.

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'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. ♥

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!

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.🤔

My dad had a saying, "Houston will be a great town if they can ever get it finished."

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 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 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!

Such a great video. Really love Houston and these videos will rock your channel... but South Florida and Miami are my favorites.

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. 🤘🏽

The DFW metro area has more square miles, but downtown Houston is so massive! It makes Dallas look like a small town!

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.

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

Visited twice now and loved it. People are so nice and it’s clean- and so much to do!

Cool to see Houston.. I used to live there, but, when I left they were just starting to expand those highways

I thought i was the only one who liked road trips and enjoy seeing any cars in traffic

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.

I don’t know about the safe,polite driving here in Houston,there’s a lot of road rage here once you drive on them long enough you’ll see

Y'all are enjoying yourselves traveling around the Country 👊🏽👍🏼 Thanks for sharing🤗

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!

World's largest parking lot@ 5pm

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 can't believe a simple drive through Houston could cause such a diverse range of comments. 😆 Welcome to H-Town!!!

Houston is a big beautiful city I definitely wanna visit there in future

I love when he went on the "you in my hood dawg" rant. I was laughing. He knows whats up 🤣 glad you made a video about Houston!

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.

Great video! I live in Houston as well. I moved from Miami 5 years ago. Houston is the BEST overall city in the country.

We were just there this past weekend. Houston was so beautiful.

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!

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’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.

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.

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.

im glad someone is dropping this video, i have panic attacks near everyday over this

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!

I rode on that highway last year. I'll be on it again in 3 weeks. It is an impressive and beautiful sight

Houston Rocks! I love this town.

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)!!!👍

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.

Everything is bigger in Texas!

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.

HOUSTON native! BIG... several skylines....Medical Center....Galleria.... LOVE the city!

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.

Love my city.. Been in transportation here for almost 20 years and I'm a back street rider when it's traffic time other than that it's a big circle

Welcome to Htown. We do things big here bro. Love my city AND state.

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.

True I have lived there off and on many years and still have been to other sides of towns.

Damn this made me homesick living in California till my girl finish college then im moving back immediately

Visited Houston twice now and loved it

16:01 what a sweet Aston Martin DBX. Never actually seen one on the road. Beautiful vehicle

"Incredible view of Downtown Texas" 😄👍

That traffic looks too much , even for me as a guy from Mumbai. Appreciate the sun though, it's really a vibe. Enjoyed the ride, big ups.

I miss my hometown so much. Can't wait to move back!

I live in Houston, Tx. and even though Katy Frwy. has more lanes, still very congested.

It's important to have a vehicle out here in Houston

I had to laugh when I heard you say, "it's 3pm, I want to leave early to miss the traffic" Btw, our service roads are called "feeders".

I've been at houston and been on that highway, complicated lane changes.

What mount are you using?

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

Any state toll have you been through .,... Enjoying your videos

I use to hate getting off work and driving in that traffic

I'm from Houston and can tell you... 26 lanes still isn't enough depending on what time of day it is. 😭

And Houston drivers still manage to clog it up.

Too many people has moved to Houston and now traffic is horrible. When you use to zip around h-town in no time, but now ugh 😣

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 📹

I drive this several times a week. I don’t think I could handle more!

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

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

Hi new sub love it I love Houston

Bro 26 lanes and the traffic is still bad lmao

19:56 Oh My God, That Was A Very Close Call Right There. Bad Driver Alert!! I’ve Seen Much Worse On These Highways.

I "learned" to drive in Houston. Now I live in Miami. Between the two places, I am now trained! 😳

What is the best time to drive on the Katy freeway with no traffic.

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.

Needed, because we have so many people in Houston.

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.

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.

Houston really needs a subway system.

Come to the oldest city in Texas Nacogdoches tx and has a major university and beautiful hills 👌

Widest highway (maximum number of lanes): The Katy Freeway (Houston, TX): it has a total of 26 lanes in some sections. Widest highway (maximum number of through lanes): Interstate 5 between Interstate 805 and California State Route 56 in San Diego, California. It’ 22 lanes wide.

P.S. at 14:18 I believe he mentioned the graffiti this is the iconic "Houston" graffiti tracks where messages are added with graffiti you can get the correct view going South instead of North. P.S. don't tap into savings 😁

We have really good wides freeways but the problems is its a bunch people moved out to Houston we have nice weather lot work ,8ntwrnational Business port..but still..

Have you seen Toronto scamcanada? They have new 401 with 8 lanes per side plus 2 collector lanes

that is one big freeway