"Neartown" will focus on traffic issues

[trymahjong]

Neartown (4th Tuesday Cherryhurst community center 7pm) all meetings open to public-

http://www.chron.com/heights/news/article/Neartown-group-to-focus-on-traffic-issues-4128526.php

[ig2ba]

Thought this was relevant:

http://www.houstontomorrow.org/livability/story/coh-study-calls-for-wide-sidewalks-and-new-street-classifications/

Direct link:

http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/mobility/InnerWestLoop.html

Personally, I think most of the improvements they proposed are band-aids, and will not be that helpful overall. No added lanes and no grade separation is proposed. Not even any redesigned intersections. Thinking about the next couple decades, I think we have to start talking about these things in the Neartown and Upper Kirby areas if want congestion to be manageable in 20 years.

[trymahjong]

thanks for those links--

I go to the neartown meetings monthly. I was surprised at the last meeting to hear that making Westheimer 3 lanes from Bagby to Shepherd ( I think). I had remembered Westheimer being 3 lanes when we lived in Houston in the 70's. Increase in traffic is supposedly what changed it to 4 lanes. . . . now all these years later, it will be put back to 3 lanes to help with traffic flow. ;/