Massive I-45 Houston project heads back to public comment phase during pause

"Organizer Chloe Cook holds a sign during a protest walk of the Interstate 45 expansion in Fifth Ward on Dec. 6, 2020. Annie Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Contributor"

Hemmed between a request for a pause by federal highway officials and an outcry from opponents, planners of a massive rebuild of Interstate 45 in Houston are taking their plans back to the public.

The Texas Transportation Commission on Wednesday said more public scrutiny is needed of the $7 billion-plus plan for remaking I-45 north from downtown Houston to Beltway 8.

“Basically, let’s take this project and put it back out for public comment … then we will see where we go from there,” Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bugg said. [Read more.]


Dug Begley | June 30, 2021
Houston Chronicle 
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