Wednesday, July 27, 2022

From the Houston Chronicle: Texas has $85B plan for expanding highways, but Houston I-45 project foes say no thanks

- Click here for it.

Terms:

- Interstate 45
- Texas Department of Transportation
- public hearing
Unified Transportation Program.
- transportation spending
- Texas Transportation Commission
- Houston’s TxDOT district
- Beltway 8
- Air Alliance Houston
- LINKHouston
- Stop TxDOT I-45
- transit
- Clayton Homes public housing development
- Federal Highway Administration
- community input efforts
- low-income, Hispanic and Black communities.
- lawsuit
- Harris County
- Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner
- flood-prone areas
- streets
- frontage roads, more palatable to the
- neighborhoods surrounding the freeway.
- Houston’s central business district
- air quality
- road expansion
- urban planning
- virtual public hearing
- American Council of Engineering Companies of Texas’ Houston chapter.
- safety standards

- Unified Transportation Program - UTP.