Tag: I-35

Farm&City comments on item 45 – Calling for meaningful climate and air quality analysis of the proposal to fix I-35

TxDOT’s refusal to use an equitable scenario planning process with alternative reasonable future growth forecasts renders their “No Build” analysis meaningless in the climate emissions, air quality, and traffic modeling analysis.

Hello Mayor Watson and Council Members, Thanks so much for your consideration of Item 45, seeking to improve the climate emissions reduction and air quality improvement strategies of the plan to fix I-35 and rebuild the historic urban street grid. Farm&City is a tiny nonprofit and we don’t have funding to do this particular work, so I’m sorry to report …

Support HB 4515 so local communities can propose alternatives for TXDOT projects

ACTION ALERTTell your state Representative to support and co-author HB 4515 Most major Texas cities have now taken positions in support of meaningful alternatives for major freeway projects proposed by TxDOT, but TxDOT has not fully incorporated any of these meaningful alternative proposals to be considered in an Environmental Assessment process. The City of Houston developed a full alternative proposal …