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Speak up for safer streets at the next Houston City Council Transportation, Technology, and Infrastructure Committee Meeting
LINK Houston joined City of Houston Public Works, the Federal Highway Administration, METRO, Houston Police Department, and fellow advocates from BikeHouston for the second round of the Road Safety Audit as part of Mayor Turner’s Safer Streets Initiative. We looked at the remaining six intersections identified as dangerous hotspots in our research and worked with local [...]
Preview of Transportation 101 Workshops
In our new initiative to engage communities across Houston, LINK Houston is excited to announce our Transportation 101 Workshops. In our first workshop with Rice University’s Civic Duty Club, we gave students an overview of the barriers to equity that exist in our city. We focused on local transportation issues, our data analysis, and advocacy [...]
Transit Equity Day
We at LINK Houston understand the important role that public transit and affordable transportation options play in equal access to opportunity. This is why we’ve made it our mission to advocate for equity in transportation and work alongside you and with our elected officials to change policies to minimize barriers to economic and social [...]
LINK Houston and fellow advocates ask METRO for more in universal accessibility
METRO is currently accepting public input on its draft long-range plan METRONext Moving Forward. While the transit agency is holding a series of public meetings, we at LINK Houston wanted to address METRO’s full Board of Directors about a key component of METRONext: universal accessibility – the ability of people of all ages, sizes, and [...]
Transit Equity Day
"Transit Equity Day honors Rosa Parks, who peacefully protested to end segregated seating on public buses. Today, I recognized LINK Houston for promoting equitable public transportation systems. Thank you Councilmember Amanda Edwards and Press Secretary Mary Benton for presenting a proclamation on my behalf." -Mayor Sylvester Turner Mayor Sylvester Turner FEBRUARY 4, 2019 [...]
Study finds Houstonians waiting for the bus
An estimated 984,000 people live in areas with a high transit need, according to LINK Houston, a local advocacy group that has called for more equitable transportation investment to improve travel for low-income residents. That is just below one-quarter of all the people living in Metro’s service area, even though it is 8 percent [...]