Faced with an existential threat to their business model, seven companies have formed a coalition to push back on a proposed electric scooter ban in Houston’s central urban core.
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The Houston-Galveston Area Council will be hosting a series of public meetings, starting this week, to receive feedback on its 2050 regional transportation plan.
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Meetings are scheduled to be held in July and August in the eight counties that make up the H-GAC Metropolitan Planning Organization: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller.
Texas-based GOGO Charters, which began renting out charter buses in major U.S. cities in 2012, says it plans to launch scheduled daily bus service this year to and from Houston as well as several other cities in the state.
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GOGO Charters, which began renting out charter buses in major U.S. cities in 2012, is planning daily bus routes between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth as well Houston and San Antonio, with in-between stops in Katy and The Woodlands.
In a new initiative, the Metropolitan Transit Authority's police department will spend nearly $50 million to fund Houston's traffic enforcement and street light operations next year.
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A National Transportation Safety Board report on an Oct. 20 helicopter crash details the moment that the aircraft hit a 1,000 foot tall radio tower in Houston's East End, leaving four people dead.
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A failing stormwater pump caused by a power outage has left more than a foot of stagnant water flooding a well traveled intersection in Houston's Third Ward eight days after Hurricane Beryl.
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Temporary barricades have been blocking off a stretch of Elgin Street and Lockwood Drive since July 8, when the category one hurricane left many city streets flooded. The roadways meet at a dip underneath Interstate 45 on the north tip of the University of Houston campus.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire, who paused part of a Heights infrastructure project, said the redevelopment authority leading the initiative is willing to make changes. The city council member for the area urged him to move it forward as planned.
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Houston City Council member Abbie Kamin, who represents the Heights area, urged the mayor during Wednesday's council meeting to allow the project to move forward as planned, saying it has broad support and that the city is holding hostage millions of federal grant dollars while the fate of the project remains in question.
Mayor John Whitmire is not planning to attend the Texas Vision Zero Summit that will be held in downtown Houston on Friday, but his stances on transportation issues figure to be at the forefront.
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Mayor John Whitmire declined an invitation to be the keynote speaker at the summit, citing a scheduling conflict. He has raised eyebrows and drawn criticism from traffic safety advocates for revisiting and in one case reversing infrastructure initiatives designed to slow down cars and trucks, expand the realm for pedestrians and cyclists and improve safety in a city that saw 323 traffic fatalities in 2023.
Houston is deemphasizing its commitment to Vision Zero under new Mayor John Whitmire, which could reverse the modest progress the city has made in traffic safety and hinder its ability to receive federal grant funding for transportation projects.
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A spokesperson for the mayor said Vision Zero, a nationwide movement that aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries, will be "one of many tools" utilized in transportation planning instead of the "sole determining factor for everything roadways." According to the Vision Zero Network, the shift in philosophy could reverse the progress the city has made in traffic safety and hinder its ability to receive federal grant funding for infrastructure projects.
The originally planned project was for repaving only curb lanes where buses run. That multi-million dollar plan now includes resurfacing the entire width of the street along certain sections of Westheimer Road between Interstate 610 and Bagby Street.
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The plan includes accessible sidewalks and bus stop upgrades along the route. It's a part of METRO's BOOST program, which aims to provide for safe, reliability and access improvements along Houston's 17 high-ridership, frequent bus routes.
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