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Heights/Northside Mobility Study


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Study document available here.

 

Not a whole lot of earth-shattering changes. Some more bike lanes here and there. Diamond (bus) lanes on Shepherd/Durham.

 

 

Proposes changing parking on 19th to back-in angled parking (similar to S. Congress in Austin) on one side of the street.  Also floats the idea of a roundabout at Main/Studewood & 20th, which would make that intersection a lot more efficient.

 

Apparently the intersections of Studewood, Heights and Yale at I-10 weren't part of the study area.

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Given the deathly slow CIP in Houston, who knows whether any of this will happen.  But I like the proposed bike paths for 20th street.  I know some in Shady Acres do not want 20th street to become a major thorough fare.  But I think it would actually help traffic for the rest of the neighborhood.  People would stop cutting through other streets if they had clear sailing through 20th.  The Michigan turn proposed for 11th and Heights is a pretty terrible idea.  Roundabouts are terrible for pedestrians and Houstonians are not very good at navigating them.  I would prefer an awkward intersection to hoping that whipping along main/studemont will slow down enough to do the whole yield thing at a roundabout.

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20th is already a de facto major thoroughfare, and moving more traffic from 19th to 20th would ultimately benefit Shady Acres.

 

Anyone with any sense already does a "Michigan U-turn" (or something similar) at Heights and 11th. Turning left off Heights at a light is a sucker's game.

 

The roundabout at Washington & Westcott seems to work just fine. Aside from reducing travel time and pollution (less idling at red lights), roundabouts can actually be safer for pedestrians, since all vehicles must slow down when approaching. They also eliminate head-on and t-bone collisions from left turns, since all traffic flows in the same direction. Pedestrian crossings just need to move a short distance upstream of each entrance to the roundabout.

 

The study didn't address the 4-way stop at the intersection of 18th and E. TC Jester, either, but a roundabout work work there as well.

 

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