Mayor Turner Announces Vision Zero for Houston
At the June 10 press conference at 10 th Street and Shepherd Drive, Mayor Turner and City officials announced safety and accessibility improvements at the location as part of the Safer Streets Initiative. To top off the list of the improvements, Mayor Turner announced that the City of Houston will adopt a Vision Zero [...]
Communities and Stakeholders Advocate for Changes in the North Houston Highway Improvement Project
In the lead up to the June 13 press conference and City Council committee meeting, dozens of Near Northside residents packed into Avenue CDC’s Housing Recovery Center on May 29. Their concern: The Texas Department of Transportation’s (TxDOT) $7 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), which in its current design will push out [...]
TxDOT Makes a Play for $100 Million for Segment 2 of the I-45 Project
While TxDOT is slowly working with communities to understand the opposition to the project as currently planned, the state agency is simultaneously maneuvering to secure funding for Segment 2 of the NHHIP, extending along I-45 from I-10 to just north of I-610 adjacent to the Independence Heights community. At the June 19 meeting of [...]
LINK Houston, Residents Push Back on I-45 Expansion at City Hall
LINK Houston, Residents Push Back on I-45 Expansion at City Hall Residents of Near Northside, as well as Midtown, Fifth Ward, Montie Beach, and Independence Heights, joined LINK Houston, Air Alliance Houston, and other stakeholders for a press conference and public comments at the June 13 Houston City Council’s Transportation, Technology, and Infrastructure Committee [...]
Equity Must Play a Role in Public Transit Investments
Public transit is the backbone of any major metropolis, connecting thousands of people to jobs and services, and moving the local economy. In Houston, people make about 285,000 trips using transit each weekday, making transit an integral part of the city’s connectivity. For many Houstonians, especially those who live in under-resourced communities, public transit [...]
Local Leaders Must be Accountable to Commitments for Safer Streets
The City of Houston’s commitments to expand the Safer Streets Initiative on April 11 and April 17, 2019 are a result of a year’s worth of data analysis and advocacy by LINK Houston, partner stakeholders like BikeHouston, and community members. Nearly a year after Mayor Turner’s initial announcement to expand the Safer Streets Initiative [...]
LINK Houston in the News
Families try to block freeway expansion around downtown Houston
Families living near downtown Houston are hoping to temporarily curb the North Houston Highway Improvement Project which is expected to relocate businesses and homes in mostly lower income areas. [Read more.] KHOU 11 | JULY 23, 2019 Read Full Article [...]
I-45 freeway expansion will force people out of homes, group says
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A plan to remake I-45 is being protested by some community leaders on the north side of Houston who claim the project will force thousands of low-income residents out of their homes. The North Houston Highway Improvement Project calls [...]
Advocates call for delay in vote on major I-45 expansion plans
HOUSTON - Community advocates called for a delay Tuesday in the planned vote aimed at funding an expansion plan for Interstate 45 in Houston. The vote by the Houston-Galveston Area Council planned for Friday would address a request by the Texas Department of Transportation [...]
Activists Want To Delay Funding Vote On I-45 Expansion
Activists Want To Delay Funding Vote On I-45 Expansion The proposed $7 billion I-45 widening project would extend from downtown Houston to Beltway 8 North. TxDOT says the work is needed to support the region’s growing population, but many people along the route are worried about losing [...]
Protesters say I-45 expansion will affect minority Houstonians
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - When you launch a $7 billion, decade-long highway expansion project, lots of lives change, and sometimes not for the better. Ahead of a major vote this week by the Houston-Galveston Area Council’s Transportation Committee, community activists say the current I-45 [...]
H-GAC committee offers support for I-45 rebuild, but not without concerns
Plans to overhaul Interstate 45 north of downtown Houston inched forward this week, but not without some hesitation and a slew of caveats by some local officials who have been asked to commit $100 million to the massive project. [Read more.] Houston Chronicle [...]