Seems like KBTX is awash with stories of ATM thefts, fatal or serious car accidents, home invasions, drug dealers, etc. What in the world is going on?!?!
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THE SAFEST CITIES IN TEXAS
[ol]Sugar Land Plano El Paso College Station Round Rock [/ol]
THE LEAST SAFE CITIES IN TEXAS
[ol]Lubbock San Antonio Beaumont Amarillo San Angelo [/ol]
Methodology: Choosing our Cities
To get our list of Texas cities, we reviewed the most recent population data from the United States Census Bureau. While the Census is officially performed every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau provides population estimates for each year in between the census. We used their 2017 Population Estimation for Texas, and removed any cities with a population below 40,000.
Next, we referenced the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data to find the crime rates for each of these cities. The FBI has already released some early data for 2017, but it only covers the first half of the year. We used the 2016 report because it is the most recent report that captures a full year of data.
The FBI compiles the UCR from crime data that is voluntarily submitted by state and local law enforcement agencies. If a Texas city did not submit their crime data to the UCR, we removed the city from our list.
After removing cities smaller than 40,000, and any cities that did not report their crime to the UCR, we had a final list of 39 cities. We ranked these according to their crime rate.
Methodology:
How We Ranked the Safest Cities in Texas
Specifically, we looked at three types of crime for each city in Texas. These included:
- Violent crime, including aggravated assault, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, and robbery
- Property crime, including arson, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft
- Burglary crime, including any unlawful entry into a structure to commit a felony or theft
Each year we welcome over 68,000 of the state's least experienced drivers and concentrate them in a 50 square mile radius. These drivers include those from large urban areas, where speeding and weaving through traffic is a right of passage and from small rural areas where parking in the middle of main street to chat or rest is the norm. Combine them all together and you have chaos.Aggie said:
Car accidents are because BCS is home to some of the absolute worst drivers imaginable.
People that have zero clue how to drive and zero clue how to handle a vehicle.
I drive quite a bit daily and no lie almost get hit 3-4 times a day.
Exactly! we've lived in College Station since 1985 and we have yet to see any city planners and city councils take a proactive approach to planning roads to help drive growth. The prevailing attitude is to let things grow & then figure out how to deal with the traffic.merc said:
Rapidly falling beyond in road strucutre and capacity as the area gets larger doesnt help with driving either.
It's actually not much of an exaggeration.doubledog said:Each year we welcome over 68,000 of the state's least experienced drivers and concentrate them in a 50 square mile radius. These drivers include those from large urban areas, where speeding and weaving through traffic is a right of passage and from small rural areas where parking in the middle of main street to chat or rest is the norm. Combine them all together and you have chaos.Aggie said:
Car accidents are because BCS is home to some of the absolute worst drivers imaginable.
People that have zero clue how to drive and zero clue how to handle a vehicle.
I drive quite a bit daily and no lie almost get hit 3-4 times a day.
Finally every student, at A&M and Blinn, own two cars and drive each car to campus at the same time
Well I exaggerate but you get my point.
I really wish Texas A&M would implement a rule that underclassmen have to live on campus and are not allowed to have a car.doubledog said:Each year we welcome over 68,000 of the state's least experienced drivers and concentrate them in a 50 square mile radius. These drivers include those from large urban areas, where speeding and weaving through traffic is a right of passage and from small rural areas where parking in the middle of main street to chat or rest is the norm. Combine them all together and you have chaos.Aggie said:
Car accidents are because BCS is home to some of the absolute worst drivers imaginable.
People that have zero clue how to drive and zero clue how to handle a vehicle.
I drive quite a bit daily and no lie almost get hit 3-4 times a day.
Finally every student, at A&M and Blinn, own two cars and drive each car to campus at the same time
Well I exaggerate but you get my point.
I never had a parking pass in 4 years and even lived on-campus one year. Parked in the neighborhoods around campus and rode my bike. You really want 20,000 cars parked legally on all the public streets around campus? That will make every day look like game day.AggieBarstool said:
I really wish Texas A&M would implement a rule that underclassmen have to live on campus and are not allowed to have a car.
This would be a win-win: congestion would (hopefully) ease up some and off-campus parking structures could charge whatever they want because underclassmen would be desperate for a way to have their car in town.
Totally agree. I've lived here for a while and the few times my wife or I have been backed into or rear ended, not one time was it a student that did it. When I try to take the Wm. Fitch exit heading south, it's not students ahead of me that drop down to 60mph a 1/4 mile before the exit. And it's not just students that nearly cut me off because they can't stay in their clearly marked lane when taking a two lane left turn.saltydog13 said:
There's just as many bad drivers that are adults/old folks as there are students. Scariest time of day to drive is mid morning with all the old folks out driving around 10-20 below speed limits
Yup, including UT in Austin.TimsParents said:
Actually many large Universities already do this and it works well. The excellent bus system allows access to most anywhere in town most new students would need to go off campus
1. ZipCar https://www.zipcar.com/universities/texas-a-and-msaltydog13 said:
What if you need to go home? Your parents going to have to come pick you up. That's an extra round trip every time that's unnecessary vs if you had a car.
Costs- why should I be forced to pay the high costs of on campus living when there are cheaper options available off campus? Not to mention the off campus garage parking idea you had would probably charge a very high premium.
A student with a job needs to have their vehicle to be able to drive to work and not rely on public transportation which more than likely doesn't even go to their work.
At the end of the day, it's a major inconvenience in my opinion. I don't like the idea of making it mandatory.