Ensure Better Mobility

Briefing: Tell the Federal Highway Administration to prioritize public health, safety, and equity in street design – especially for people walking, rolling, and biking

Reports + Briefings

Briefing: Tell the Federal Highway Administration to prioritize public health, safety, and equity in street design – especially for people walking, rolling, and biking

Transportation engineering currently prioritizes convenience for people driving over safety for people walking or biking. This makes streets more dangerous for everyone, including drivers. Now is your opportunity to change all that. Public comments are wanted on revisions to one of transportation engineering’s “bibles,” the 700-page Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD). [...]

linkhouston2021-05-10T16:47:23+00:00May 10th, 2021|

Briefing: Transportation access at COVID-19 vaccine sites

Reports + Briefings

Briefing: Transportation access at COVID-19 vaccine sites

LINK Houston urges the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Harris County to consider multiple mobility options in their plans for COVID-19 vaccination distribution at NRG and additional sites so that people with disabilities, those without access to a vehicle, and aging persons who no longer drive are able to access vaccination sites. Our [...]

linkhouston2021-04-30T19:26:55+00:00February 25th, 2021|

Want a vaccine at NRG Park’s super site? Show up with wheels.

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Want a vaccine at NRG Park’s super site? Show up with wheels.

The region’s largest COVID vaccine site — created to cater to vulnerable communities — is drive-thru-only, a process that frustrated some observers as health officials work to balance better access to shots, huge demand and the need to inoculate as many people as fast as possible. Opened Wednesday, the vaccination site at NRG Park [...]

linkhouston2021-04-30T19:26:25+00:00February 25th, 2021|

Let’s Get Out the Vote!

News

Let’s Get Out the Vote!

LINK Houston is teaming up with Roll to the Polls to help ensure that transportation is not a barrier for voters to access polling locations during the 2020 Election Season. We created neighborhood maps showing bikeways and transit services alongside early voting and Election Day voting sites. To view or download the universal English [...]

linkhouston2021-04-30T19:28:27+00:00October 12th, 2020|

Briefing: Draft 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program

Reports + Briefings

Briefing: Draft 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program

LINK Houston submitted formal comments on the Draft 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program to the Houston-Galveston Area Council. Please read the full letter here: Draft 2021-2024 Transportation Improvement Program LINK Houston March 5, 2020

linkhouston2021-04-30T19:29:58+00:00March 5th, 2020|

How to Fix Public Transportation

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How to Fix Public Transportation

ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN in Houston for more than a minute knows that one of the city’s biggest drawbacks is the lack of public transportation. Luckily, we already have a lot of the bones in place for what could become a transformative change: the Bayou Greenways 2020 project, the new bus lanes and bike [...]

linkhouston2021-04-30T19:29:40+00:00February 10th, 2020|