![]() The new infrastructure plan put forth by the Biden administration has promised to help reconnect areas divided by highways, something that was traditionally done through impoverished areas and neighborhoods where residents are mostly people of color. ![]() ![]() Many of the areas most drastically affected are low income. Spots within the inner city have balked at the plan that would impact hundreds of businesses and residents along the corridor. Groups from all sides including the city and county have been battling over the plans set in motion by TxDOT for one of the most highly anticipated and ambitious freeway construction plans ever. If that weren't enough, we have Interstate 45 and the fight that continues to rage over its expansion and widening. Parts of it have already opened thanks to extra time for closures during the pandemic, but we still have quite a ways to go at one of the busiest traffic spots in the city. In the first third of the year (yes, we are already through a third of 2021), we've had more than our share of Florida level insanity.įirst, there are the simple things like the frequent closings of the I-69 at the West Loop interchange as they work on a long-term plan to fix what has been one of the most accident-prone stretches of road in the entire state. And it looks like 2021 is going to be just as anomalous. All frustrating and weird, but mostly avoidable and routine in the fourth largest city in the country.īut, 2020, despite a lack of traffic thanks to the pandemic, was still one of the most deadly years on Houston-area roadways in quite sometime. Normally, traffic warnings might include freeway closures, hazardous chemical spills, hundreds of nighttime bicyclists or people stopping in the middle of the highway for a marriage proposal (we wish we were kidding). Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the freeway, the Houston area once again rolls out the red carpet of crazy.
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