Gulfton

So it's, you know, it's, it's weirdly not rocket science.

You know, we can, we can, we can put a man on the moon, but we can't quite make it safe for a kid to walk in Gulfton, you know? And it's, um, so it's about priorities and it's about strategies.

And, um, we spend more money on transportation here in Texas than almost anywhere else in the world, but we don't spend it very wisely.

um and so there are ways to do this um you know bike lanes can be great um but generally it's the car system that's unsafe you know generally we need to make it safe to drive in houston and it's not and most of the people dying are in cars um and and so we got to get our priorities straight And there are ways that Texas has been moving in that direction.

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Finally, before you go, Houston Explained host Jair Romero writes about how Houston's Gulfton neighborhood became a hub for immigrants and culture.

Listen to the full story after the break.

Think of the heart of Houston, and you may envision a bustling downtown where productive office workers scurry around underground tunnels like ants.

And you can't forget the ship channel, the conduit that quite literally powers the American and global economy.

But none of those areas are the true heart of Houston, a place we constantly brag about being one of the most diverse and culturally rich cities in the country, where working class people can show up with nothing and build the lives they dream of.

That would be Gulfton, a few square miles of apartment complexes and diverse small businesses just south of the Southwest Freeway, outside the West Loop, where roughly 40,000 people speak more than 50 languages between them.

Because the skyscrapers and hospitals and petrochemical complexes may move money, but Gulfton pumps people, taking in whoever arrives from wherever and enriching the rest of the city with their food, their languages, their labor, their love.