Mayor’s Workplace Press Launch
Metropolis of Houston Awarded RAISE Grant Funding for Phone Highway Challenge
Mayor Turner, congressional, state, county and metropolis leaders announce particulars of the RAISE grant funding throughout a information convention at present
August 10, 2022 — America Division of Transportation introduced yesterday that the Metropolis of Houston will obtain $20.96 million in federal funding via the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Fairness (RAISE) grant program for the Phone Highway: Most important Road Revitalization Challenge.
Mayor Sylvester Turner, Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, Congressman Al Inexperienced, Houston Metropolis Councilmembers together with enterprise and group leaders introduced particulars of the two.8-mile rehabilitation venture at present throughout a information convention. The venture will improve mobility and entry for the group by connecting space sources and can modernize the roadway throughout the current right-of-way to incorporate upgraded sidewalks, bus stops, protected bike lanes, avenue crossings, and security therapies.
“On behalf of the Metropolis of Houston, I sincerely thank our congressional delegation and the U.S. Division of Transportation for the RAISE funds, which symbolize our dedication to deal with longstanding problems with disinvestment and inequities,” mentioned Mayor Turner. “This transformative, multimodal revitalization venture will uplift communities primarily based on data-driven options, actions, investments, and supply extra fairness to a key a part of our metropolis.”
The Metropolis labored with a number of group companions and stakeholders via the general public design part over the previous 5 years. The Phone Highway venture is positioned between two Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZ), TIRZ 23 – Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority, and TIRZ 8 – Gulfgate Redevelopment Authority. The venture begins on the intersection of Lawndale Drive and Phone Highway and extends 2.8 miles to Interstate 610.
“I’m proud the Metropolis of Houston has secured these federal funds made doable by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation,” mentioned Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia. “This grant will assist modernize Houston by growing entry to environment friendly and dependable infrastructure across the metropolis. I’m assured these funds will positively profit thousands and thousands of residents throughout the metropolis. These are the outstanding outcomes achieved once we put folks over politics.”
The funding was awarded from funds secured within the Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act (IIJA), generally known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation. It is among the first distributions of funding from the regulation because it handed November 15, 2021. RAISE grants, funded at $7.5 billion over the following 10 years, are aggressive grants that enable for versatile options to transportation associated initiatives.
“I’m honored to have partnered with Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia to assist safe over $20 million in federal funds as a part of the RAISE grant for the Metropolis of Houston’s Phone Highway Challenge. This venture will assist revitalize Houston by increasing Phone Highway to make it extra pedestrian-friendly and bike-friendly, in addition to by bettering drainage via landscaping and pipe upgrades,” Congressman Al Inexperienced shared. “I’m proud to see Mayor Turner and the Houston Metropolis Council proceed to train good stewardship of our tax {dollars}.”
The protection enhancements to Phone Highway help the Metropolis’s Imaginative and prescient Zero Motion Plan. The redesigned roadway will embody new paving and striping, protected bike lanes, ADA compliant sidewalks, in addition to reconstructed curbs and drainage shops. Security modifications to Phone Highway embody:
- Restriped crosswalks
- New inexperienced “cross-bike” markings
- Tighter corners to sluggish car pace & enhance visibility
- CCTV cameras put in at three totally rebuilt intersections
- Median refuge islands at 9 areas
- Upgraded METRO bus stops
The Metropolis of Houston thanks the next elected officers, group companions and stakeholders for his or her help:
- U.S. Consultant Sylvia Garcia (TX-29)
- U.S. Consultant Al Inexperienced (TX-09)
- Texas State Senator Carol Alvarado (TX-District 6)
- Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia (Precinct 2)
- Metropolis of Houston, District I Councilmember Robert Gallegos
- Metropolis of Houston David Fields – Chief Transportation Planner
- Metropolis of Houston, Margaret Wallace Brown – Planning Director
- Metropolis of Houston, Houston Public Works Director Carol Haddock
- Metropolis of Houston, Veronica Davis Public Works
- Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO)
- Better Houston Partnership
- East Finish Administration District
- East Finish Chamber of Commerce
- Gulfgate Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 8
- Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 23
- Tremendous Neighborhood 64 – Better Eastwood
- Tremendous Neighborhood 88 – Lawndale/Wayside
- LINK Houston
- Houston Parks Board
- SER Jobs
- Houston-Galveston Space Council
- BikeHouston
Learn extra concerning the Phone Highway: Most important Road Revitalization Challenge RAISE funds software at EngageHouston.org.
