Mayor's Complete Streets Initiative (Houston, Richmond: neighborhood, tax, living in)

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Mayor Parker Wants Houston's Streets More Accessible To Pedestrians And Cyclists

"The executive order will serve as a blueprint for future street work, creating throughfares with lanes for bikes, and easily-accessible sidewalks for pedestrians and transit users. The policy also takes into consideration things like trees, to help keep the neighborhood cooler, as well as benches, green space, and drainage improvements."

"We want the default to be a complete street and anything different from that to be something that has to be an exception."

Thoughts? Looks like this will be the new order of things around here.

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Also, Midtown's Bagby Street just won an award for being a "Complete Street", and is now also the Texas' first Greenroads Project.

I guess that means Midtown is well on its way to become Houston's first true walkable, urban neighborhood (if it isn't already....)

[Jack Lance]

Wider sidewalks more shade trees , greener, sounds fantastic !

[Svensk08]

Complete Streets sounds great, Mayor Parker, but it's like frosting the cake before the batter goes into the oven. Before anything else, let's repave some of the worst, most heavily-traveled thoroughfares leading west from Midtown/Montrose to the Kirby area: Westheimer, Richmond and West Alabama!

That cheesy pavement patching material somebody sold the city doesn't last and is a waste of taxpayers' money.

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Originally Posted by Svensk08

Complete Streets sounds great, Mayor Parker, but it's like frosting the cake before the batter goes into the oven. Before anything else, let's repave some of the worst, most heavily-traveled thoroughfares leading west from Midtown/Montrose to the Kirby area: Westheimer, Richmond and West Alabama!

That cheesy pavement patching material somebody sold the city doesn't last and is a waste of taxpayers' money.

Hopefully this means that means they'll repave those streets with this in mind. Lower Westheimer in particular could use this kind of repaving and beautification, and it makes sense to do it all at once.

[houstonfan]

This a step in the right direction. It will beautify our great city and the many bikers here need their own lane.

[timtemtym]

I remember Lanier's Complete Streets program that linked up a lot of the incomplete streets we had inside the beltway. You'd have three different sections of a road like Fuqua and they didn't link up. I know there are some major roadways still waiting on that.

I think a big priority is correctly repaving much of the inner loop. Although since moving to LA and seeing just how bad streets can get when they are allowed to deteriorate for several decades, Houston doesn't look so bad.

[jeremy2788]

I am all for the beautification of our streets and allowing safe and easy access to all those that wish to use it. I really think that Parker will be elected again, so I hope to see this turn into something great.

[EasilyAmused]

Those pictures look like a big citycentretowncentermarketstreet thingie-ma-***. I thought that was a bad thing...

Fix the damn streets first. Oh and use the drainage tax to actually fix drainage. Thank you.

Edit: why is a three letter name for a type of dance filtered. Omg, the filter in this place has gone wild. Bamafilter?

[houston-nomad]

Trees and a sidewalk cafe = citycentretowncentre? You are mistaking the real thing for the faux suburban thing. Maybe you've been living in Houston too long. Let progress be progress people. Let a good thing be a good thing.