Houston Texas I-45 North Through Downtown

[SuperThePepper]

Ya umm have u ever hear of a BIRD,OR JET?MABYE A PLAIN???? well if u HAVEN'T THEN UR FUCKED UP CUZ I'VE LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE AND NEXT TIME, TELL OR ASK A REAL HOUSTONEN! K CUZ APPARENTLY UR NOT ONE!!!!!!

[Freewayjim]

@SuperThePepper Dude? what the hell does all that mean? I never claimed to be a Houstonian, look at my profile, I live in Atlanta.

[HelmutVillam]

What do you think is better for freeways? Houston or Dallas?

[Freewayjim]

@HelmutVillam Tough call on that, coin flip really, I'll give Houston a slight edge with the Channel Bridges but with the new projects being built in Dallas they'll get the nod in a few years.

[TOBY2807]

Thanks for this amazing video mate, I live in the uk but go to Houston twice a year to see my sister, Houston is awesome keep up the good work.

[Freewayjim]

@TOBY2807 Thanks, glad you liked it, I have an HD version of this from 2010, check my other videos.

[TOBY2807]

Awesome video mate, have you any more?

[Freewayjim]

@TOBY2807 Yes, I have almost 300 more videos (about another 20 from Houston alone) just like this, go to my channel page and you can search on the upper right. Thanks for watching.

[SWITCHESFORLIFE]

at 1:40 woodridge , where i stay

[BNforever2009]

good video--planning on driving there soon.

[joscamon]

what's the name of this great song? anyone?

[Freewayjim]

@joscamon "If I could Fly" By Joe Satriani

[joscamon]

@Freewayjim thank you so much!!! i really enjoy your video, i really love and miss Houston, thanks again for uploading!

[Freewayjim]

@joscamon Have you seen the Houston HD videos? I shot about 10 there last summer.

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

love this song . thats the home freeway right there for me . and has not changed since the 1990s

[Freewayjim]

@usafruben Thanks!

[keithjohnson20988]

did anyone see that truck in front of freeway jim at 3:54 throwing trash

[TrevG713]

hell yea im off that I-45 south scarsdale blvd baby

[Alex123Blue]

@TrevG713 Lol i live down their too

[TrevG713]

@Alex123Blue hell yea! punk ass scarsdale lol

[mutt1256]

Great video just proves one thing you best know where you are going or your just shit out of luck . Music was great as it fit the video also I used to live in Pasadena loved it and Houston but I don't miss it.

[Hadeer17]

Thanks for sharing, looks great:)

[123klan1]

This video and the incredible music of Joe Satriani brings tear to my eyes.

I used to live in Houston 7 years ago. I believe it´s one of the most beautiful cities in the entire world, no doubt about it. My son was born in Houston, I have lots of wonderful memories from that special place. God bless Houston!

[Freewayjim]

@123klan1 -Thank you! Check back, I'm making my way through Texas with videos I shot last month and there will be quite a few new Houston videos in HD coming.

[ir10031981]

Texas, we need to take a lesson from Pennsylvania, example: on I-80 in PA they post mile markers every tenth (.1) mile. It would be cool for Texas interstates. Besides if you get stranded you will know the exact location with ten mile markers per mile.

[iloveyourstory]

Thanks for the view of that dump of a city.

[AppleIncase]

3:26 Hey thats me in the blue Dodge

[wlad1969]

What is the maximum speed on this road?

[tundes009]

im moving to houston this year i think the highways are great

[k20civic11]

@tundes009 yep between 12am and 6am

[dylanhazard]

ill show my teggy doing 100+ in the next couple of days on the same stretch of freeway!

[avery620]

@dylanhazard how traffic don't move for crap over there???

[k20civic11]

@avery620 depends on where you at. I drive this stretch in the video all the time when I go downtown. I pretty much do 100+ from where the video starts to 610 south

[newjerseyjew]

houston is bigger than dallas

[k20civic11]

@newjerseyjew by what? metro, no dfw is bigger, more people. houston is bigger population yes.

[newjerseyjew]

@k20civic11 houston is bigger than dallas , the city of houston is bigger than dallas

[quatlen]

It is very interesting to see how much the quality of your videos have improved over the years.

[candyrain3000]

The cops are very did I say very laid back in Houston. Seems most of them are always sitting in restaurants all all dayyyy longggggg

[k20civic11]

@candyrain3000 yes they are.

I think i hit a comment limit. this sux

[XodoX]

Houston sucks. Can't wait to get outta here.

[TheAlex3607]

houston texas northside all day

[homeskillet3000]

Im moving there in February............Im super excited

[kambridge967]

dont be to excited its boring as hell down here.

[iloveyourstory]

@homeskillet3000 ready to leave yet?

[osamabindrinkin40s]

What does Houston have that Dallas dosen't have?

[Freewayjim]

A Large Bridge (Fred Hartman Bridge)

[kambridge967]

nothing

[taipei50]

@osamabindrinkin40s palm trees and a megamall with a hotel in it

[DredgePhantom]

My home.....

[ScrewdUPClickV2]

the design of gulf freeway inside i-610 to downtown is a work of pure genius . with the exception of Jim's Favorite intersection ..

loved this vid . drive this 1 everyday lol

[Fanik8]

I agree with Nikkorea. Satriani's the best

[Nikkorea]

love the song and i think i'm gonna visit Houston!!!Satriani all the way yeah!!!

[SushiCubes]

Reminds me of Downtown Dallas

[jeromeo2]

i love visiting houston and driving on the 45 im from chicago but i think the 45 in houston is really a nice expressway to drive

[k20civic11]

@jeromeo2 my family and i went to chicago last summer. we sat in traffic from ohare all the way downtown.

[FreewayBrent]

I almost don't even recognize this as your work! It shows how far you've come with your videos, over the past 2 years!

[Yayakills]

cool.

i stay in sugarland, originally from that S.W.A.T

and i see this shit everyday. lol

idk why im looking at this on youtube...

[partydude9999]

so............... =/

[Yayakills]

so....................what?

[partydude9999]

I don't remember why I wrote that lol!

[sirsarkis]

What is the music playing?

[Freewayjim]

If I Could Fly by Joe Satriani

[CrazyJoeDavola66]

I think this video is a fake, because I saw at least two cars signal for a lane change.

Having spent all but 8 years of my life on and about Houston's freeways, I can say I have never seen such a phenomenon ever, much less twice in a 15-minute span.

It must be some home video CGI kind of witchcraft going on here.

Incidentally, the vid starts about 2 miles away from where I grew up (i.e., Sagemont). I've driven that I-45 N route many, many times.

[Freewayjim]

Nah, it's real, I promise.

[sweetheartgolden]

long live the king of freeways houston baby

[MyMaze08]

unless their hot =)

[MyMaze08]

i almost got hit on westhimer few times.. love the city not the drivers =)

[TvX1001]

Houston is great was over the for Hurricane Rita evacuated to wacco great time! Tam from Scotland love to go back some day

[cantu012]

yea houston tx will shit all over cali....and thats just houston not including tx itself...love the video though

[AARONSLOVER22]

i been to cali and texas.

houston is great and all but cali is better.

i love the beach life..

[elsope1]

What areyou stupid or what? You are aware that the gulf of mexico us right next to texas right?

[ScrewdUpClick2000]

one of my favorite.. i think its a tie between I-45 AND US-59

[sweetheartgolden]

what song is this from

[Freewayjim]

"if I Could Fly" By Joe Satriani.

I cut out the 3 minute long ending guitar solo

[WonderWallman]

I've lived in Houston for 18 years but now live in L.A. and watching this video makes me miss home so much. Great video, it just comes to show how great the highways are right there. Nothing compared to the crappy L.A. traffic and highways.

[udigginme24]

u live in Los Angeles or Lousiana??

[WonderWallman]

I live in Los Angeles unfortunately. But the weather is very nice here. Once again...great video man.

[coltsfuture21]

L.A is way better than houston by a longshot

[Roger007Audioslave]

Hell no!!!

haha Texas will dick slap california!!!

[xNinjaBeanerx]

@Roger007Audioslave dude there is more tourism in Los Angeles than there is in Houston in 10 years... been to houston, its boring.

[xNinjaBeanerx]

@coltsfuture21 agreed brother, Houston has its things, Los Angeles has its things too.. but there is just more life in Los Angeles, Griffith Park, Angeles Park, Santa Monica, The Golden Coast, San Gabriel, shit Our Pasadena is better than Houston's Pasadena =D Rose Parade, nice shopping malls, panoramic View. Long Beach, Baldwin Hills, Dodger Stadium... The Valley hahaha L.A. 4 Life here :) but i did love Houstons 610 Loop if we had one it would be badass!!

[iloveyourstory]

@WonderWallman why do you miss Houston?

[robert015803]

I'm definitely in love with I-45, I-10, Beltway 8, 610, 59... This video make me want to have a bike and ride all of them... Houston: the best place to ride a bike... You feel like u r in Hot Wheel's track!!!

[udigginme24]

i live here dis freeway is nutin new to me

[frankSTAR0x]

omg! i went here in october 2008, its not the nicest place in america to go, but i still have fab memories and would go again.

i'd go anywhere in america to get away from the crap weather in england. lol.

x

[repentUsinner]

I like Houston but its like one big highway.

[damnibefamous]

"Shooting up the highway on the road map of my wrist

Baby I've just +- crossed +- you off my list" - Chevy Chase, National Lampoon (Lemmings, Dead In Concert)

[jthrilla84]

this reminds me of that old sega game Crusin' USA lol... i think thats what is was called.

[prfsnlwannabe]

Actually that game was made by Nintendo, but close enough! I wish Sega still made video game consoles, and hadn't had pulled out of making them after Dreamcast... :(

[naseem1986]

best city in the world to live. people are great in houston except some relatives which are very tricky.

[nickyandtiffany]

I feel the same way ,buddy

hope you have a good life now

[roswellatup]

houston is a hot and crazy city

[cabasse]

aww great vid but too bad you couldn't turn the cam and get a better shot of houston's huge downtown skyline...

[rockypc24]

i think houston is just ok

[SlaveForCash]

I love my 2016 MAIN on the left at 2:34 min. 23rd floor!!

[SusannTx]

Born and raised, and couldn't wait to leave it.

[mcmikec48]

look at the freeway covering stolen native american land....and it was used basically to build more parking lots and wal-marts!

[chrispycritter2]

The shitiest city in america is closing fast on you houston. Its name is Phoenix Arizona and its a filty illeagal alien infested cesspool!

[AdamBrixton]

Houston is great!

[mra651]

all i have to say is i was high as hell when i watched this and loved it and have enjoyed laughing at you guys with the shit you have typed down lol

[intheburgh3]

Houston is an awful city and home for me for not too much longer. I can't wait to leave. Strip malls, ugly billboards, and freeways. Houston in a nutshell.

[farenht456]

your stupid and must have to much time to waste, youve copy pasted this because i read it somewhere, so if you fuckin hate houston so much then no one stoppin you from leavin the fuckin best city there is!

[intheburgh3]

Well, I'm stuck going to college here at Rice, and I love the school but hate Houston. I'll be gone the minute I graduate. "Best fuckin city there is"????? Come on buddy, it's mediocre at best. I had friends visit from Chicago last month and I was deeply embarrassed to show them Houston. They were extremely disappointed but it wasn't my fault, it was Houston's. Houston: the insecure stepchild of the family that is the United States.

[Bizartch]

People whose happiness is determined by their surroundings often have serious underlying psychological problems. So, best of luck with your neurosis, and don't let the humidity hit you in the ass on the way out!

[intheburgh3]

I never said I was unhappy, I was saying that Houston sucks. Two completely different things. It's like if you went to a really bad movie (Houston), that doesn't make you unhappy, depressed, etc... it just means you went to a bad movie. Still, you're crazy if you don't think your environment doesn't impact your quality of life to some degree. I'm happy anywhere.

[SCREWSTONTX91]

u sound like a bitch. wut sorry ass city do u come from.

[AlvinHDavernport]

An insecure stepchild where you can buy three modern houses for the price that you'd buy a 3500-year-old house in Chicago, right?

Don't confuse Houston for a tourism-oriented city, because it is not. It is YOUR fault that your friends were disappointed, because no one can pretend that Houston is a good city to tour around. It's a city to live—modern suburbs, a safe downtown, and a decent freeway system; by no means comparable to older cities. As a Rice student you should be able to see that.

[bored693]

north houston is better...the Woodlands, Spring.

[fuepie84]

not sure why i enjoyed that , bud i did

[NEJI835]

i live in beaumont but i go to houston alot

[peanutR6]

it's like being back home again

[robertistheplaya]

home sweet home

[wnt0]

I use to live in NW Houston. (Spring-1960 Area) and watching the video brings back old memories. People STILL......freakin weeving in and out. Did y'all catch the slow moving pick up pulling the small trailer in the second left lane with people having to go around the dumb ass? it is so typical of the ignorant drivers there. HEY!!!!! Think some of them have re-located to my neck of the woods now. Southern Illinois.

[sweetbrownsug]

Florida Drives Very BAD!!!!!!

[lovenkendra]

So many terrible drivers in Texas. I used to be one of them until I stopped speeding after several speeding tickets. Now, I'm the slowest driver according to other Houstonian drivers while I attempt to drive the speed limit.

[LeanaJo76]

Nah, you know who's the worst drivers? Arizona and California. They suck. And not to mention their personalities suck equally as well. I can't wait to come back home to Texas.

[Freewayjim]

Sounds an awful lot like the Northeastern states :)

[quatlen]

How long on your video from start to finish would it usually take in real time?

[Freewayjim]

I would say that's probably a 20 Minute ride (21 Miles), keep in mind I cut a few miles out of the video here and there before I reached downtown.

[quatlen]

How long on your video from start to finish would it usually take in real time?

[quatlen]

How long on your video from start to finish would it usually take in real time?

[africasgateway]

Nice, I like it as you approach the city skyline, hope to drive there one day.

[iloveroads]

What is the intersection at 00:22???

[Freewayjim]

Beltway 8, The Sam Houston Tollway

[SowfCyde84]

yeah he starts on the south side

[iloveroads]

thanks for the correction jim

[iloveroads]

I-10 and I-45 are the major highways of Dallas!!! i-69 is going to be heading that way in 2010!!!

[Freewayjim]

You mean Houston, I-10 does not go through Dallas.

[sara599]

Used to do this drive everyday..

[Autobahn2006]

This view is bitchin!

[ems2kitties]

My favorite little building at 2:34 min.!(on the left).

[elegate87]

I love living in HOUSTON, TEXAS!

[ksoriano7]

ur the best bro keep alwayz keep doin what ur doin cause its great

[ksoriano7]

great video bro this has inspired me to visit texas one day by the way whats the name of the song in the background sounds great thnx man..

[Freewayjim]

Thanks! The song is "If I Could Fly" by Joe Satriani.

[steve7138]

Ghetto Town, Mexico. The gangs and lowlifes, all clueless and brainless, have taken over all of texas, made it ugly and shitty, and then gave it back to mexico.

[case139]

Great footage, Freewayjim. Is there any way you can provide footage of that same freeway from the other direction? Can we post that? You'll have great downtown perspectives there.

[Freewayjim]

I do have an I-45 South video on here if that's what you are looking for.

[AntonioCS78]

My favorite Interstate. . .

[skywarp1]

You're not the only one that like this freeway.

[SlaveForCash]

Mine too-from up in the building!

[jesbme]

ha for a minute there I thought you were going to exit my street..Taylor St.

[prfsnlwannabe]

I've always wanted to travel to Houston, and to check out that city. Great video of the expressways in this area!

[stinkydogfilms]

downside is a lot of visitors from SOUTH of the border think the 55-60 mph speed limit MEANS KILOMETERS and they drive 40-50 in the FAST LANE!!!!!!SOME little old ladies raised overseas merge into freeway traffic at 35 mph and then slow down.

[swishahouse2006]

It's like Indy 500 on I-45. Folk be racing and everything.

[stinkydogfilms]

true to that SH.. ever hear about DJ Screw? Did some video work (BET) last year with Chamillionaire. He is a GREAT GUY. This old white man got a history lesson in screw music.did interviews with Vince Young,Bumbe,3-6 Mafia at NBA game parties. know CHINGO BLING. Loo up Scarface My BLOCK. I played a cop in the video. Guess which one?

[dose54]

The cop spraying paint on the black dudes face?

[jarocha7]

NICE VID.

[twister20037]

Yea tight video!!! 5s. I love Houstion!!! Especially, those skyscrapers when you driving down I-45, off da chin! :)

[vbdenny]

Excellent video, right up my alley. 5s.

[Bizartch]

Well done! I would like to see one of these of The Woodlands.

[jimmmm555]

Very nice! Good sounds, sights and messages. Five stars.