LINK Houston Welcomes New Director of Community Engagement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LINK HOUSTON ANNOUNCES CHERRELLE J. DUNCAN AS NEW DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HOUSTON, Thursday April 27, 2023 - LINK Houston is excited to welcome Cherrelle J. Duncan as our new Director of Community Engagement effective May 1, 2023. Cherrelle previously served as Chief of Staff for Council Member Tiffany D. [...]
LINK Houston Issued Letter to METRO Board of Directors on Required Traits in next METRO President and CEO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HOUSTON - LINK Houston has issued the following letter on March 23, 2023, to the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Houston METRO) Board of Directors ahead of their March 2023 Board Meeting to recommend the traits and values needed in the next METRO President and Chief Executive Officer. We [...]
LINK Houston Statement on the Federal Highway Administration Voluntary Resolution Agreement with TxDOT
“We expected the federal government to maximize its leverage over TxDOT to push for a fairer and more equitable North Houston Highway Improvement Project, however we are encouraged to see that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will hold TxDOT accountable in ways that the City of Houston and Harris County memorandums of understanding cannot. [...]
LINK Houston Welcomes New Director of Policy and Planning
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LINK HOUSTON ANNOUNCES PETER ECCLES, AICP AS ITS DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PLANNING HOUSTON, Thursday February 9, 2023 - LINK Houston is thrilled to announce that Peter Eccles, AICP will be joining as our new Director of Policy and Planning. He currently serves as Project Manager, Major Projects for [...]
January 2023 Newsletter
Happy New Year LINKers! We may only be one month into 2023, but it sure has been busy. Earlier in January we released our Equity in Transit 2022 report at the Burnett-Bayland Community Center in Gulfton to a crowd of volunteers, elected officials, community members, and other stakeholders. The report explores how transit has, and [...]
LINK Houston Releases Equity in Transit 2022 Findings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HOUSTON – LINK Houston urges Metropolitan Transit Authority (METRO), the City of Houston, Harris County and other local stakeholders to strategically reinvest in the safety, accessibility and resiliency of transit services in Houston using key findings from the Equity in Transit 2022 report and updated 2022 Transportation Equity Demand Index (TEDI). [...]
LINK Houston in the News
Comunidad asegura que el servicio METRO de Houston necesita mejoras en su servicio, según encuesta
Una encuesta de la Organización Houston Link, realizada a una parte de la comunidad del sureste de la ciudad, afirma que el servicio de METRO necesita hacer mejoras en su servicio. Dentro de las recomendaciones incluyen aumentar la confiabilidad de la información y [...]
Here’s how Houston METRO riders want public transit to improve
A new report places accessibility, shade and reliability are the biggest requests for METRO riders. At a community meeting on Tuesday, Jan.17, Link Houston, a local public transportation and infrastructure advocacy group, released their 2022 Equity in Transit report to address how the [...]
How Houston will continue expanding transportation options in 2023
Several infrastructure projects are in the works this year that aim to improve and expand mobility for cyclists, pedestrians and mass transit users. Gabe Cazares does not own a car and, because he is blind, says he never will. But the executive director [...]
Cyclist deaths on the rise in Harris County after grim 2021
Houston wants to be certified as a Gold Level Bike-Friendly City by 2027 but still has more then two-thirds of its bike network to build. The end of 2021 marked the deadliest year in the last decade for cyclists hit by drivers on [...]
Houston Advocates Slam TxDOT For ‘Deliberately’ Ignoring Highway’s Racist Impacts
he Texas Department of Transportation is allegedly threatening retaliation against the whole Houston region because advocates continue to fight a highway expansion that the agency knows will have a harmful impacts on communities of color — but if the advocates successfully get the [...]
Groups file federal complaint over I-45 project, urge civil rights review
Critics of the plan to remake Interstate 45 north of downtown Houston filed a nearly 100-page complaint to federal officials Thursday, urging even greater scrutiny of the project’s effects on minority communities, an analysis they say state highway officials consistently have avoided. In the [...]