  This week the media was all over the new survey that discovered Houston's three-year title (the unbuckled belt, if you will) for fattest city urlLink has fallen to Detroit .
Woohoo! We're only second fattest! This week the lightrail also opened, which might have connected in more literate news editors' minds in some story that pens hope for fitness with cleaner transportation, but no. Largely because of the oil boom, Houston is all about the car. Back when I worked at urlLink MFAH , the world-renowned architect Rafael Moneo was brought in to create this masterpiece of a structure, and what did the magnifico choose to make the focal point of this, the largest exhibition space this side of the Mississippi?
The carport. I used to say it's the most car-dependent city in the nation, but this study actually brought to my mind one city that is more about the car: Detroit. Isn't anyone making the connection? But wait, it gets worse, Houston has the nation's worst air quality. Maybe, through less dependence on oil, and more investment on cleaner transportation solutions, people can be healthier? More blasphemous words could not be uttered. 
