Posted on · The study from professors at Rice and Temple universities shows the adverse affects displacement methods used to help flooding have on residents who do not live in white or affluent neighborhoods.
Posted on · On Friday's show: The latest on TxDOT’s continuation of the I-45 expansion project despite a request to stop from the federal government, we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week, and conversations with musicians Joshua Ray Walker and Charley Crockett.
Posted on · TxDOT was told in March to pause its North Houston Highway Improvement Project over civil rights and environmental concerns raised through the public input process.
Posted on · In its letter, the FHWA said it was acting in response to public input on the state's project -- which would widen I-45 in three segments from downtown Houston to Beltway 8 -- raising concerns under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Posted on · Houstonians will have 30 days to comment on the project but one neighborhood group says that period needs to be extended.
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: Concerns about the I-45 widening project, your Houston pet peeves, and an update on sports.
Posted on · These are some of the stories Houston Public Media is covering.
Posted on · They say officials need to gather more public comment on the project's impacts before any money is allocated.
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: We learn what a Texas court case could mean for the Affordable Care Act, we discuss plans to re-rout I-45 through downtown, we meet the first woman to serve in NASA’s Mission Control, and Jeff Balke updates us on sports.
Posted on · TxDOT says delays are to be expected as drivers get used to the detours.
Posted on · The left-hand exit will be switched to the right to eliminate lane weaving on the I-45 northbound ramp to southbound I-69 and State Highway 288.
Posted on · Transportation planners say detention ponds and pumps will be part of a major freeway rebuild downtown and on the north side.
Posted on · Officials are looking for ways to prevent the kind of flooding that engulfed local freeways during Harvey
Posted on · Crews are about to finish another segment of a big connector project on I-45 northbound at U.S. 59/I-69. The project is designed to eliminate “lane weaving” by building new direct connectors between the two freeways.
Posted on · The city is expecting huge population growth in the years to come and officials say they want to be prepared for it. Along with street improvements, the plan also addresses bike and pedestrian needs.