Construction of safer pedestrian crossings on Ella Boulevard is expected to kick off in the first quarter of 2027.<\/p>\n
In a nutshell<\/p>\n
Houston City Council approved<\/a> a $157,500 agreement between the city and the Memorial-Heights Redevelopment Authority on July 29 to install a pedestrian hybrid beacon along Ella Boulevard at the intersections of W. 22nd St. and W. 23rd St.<\/p>\n A pedestrian hybrid beacon, also known as a HAWK signa<\/a>l<\/a>, is a traffic control device designed to help people safely cross busy or high-speed roads by allowing pedestrians to press a button that sends a signal to the beacon to tell drivers to stop or slow down, according to the Federal Highway Administration.<\/p>\n A representative with the MHRA said the project will give residents a safer way to cross the street to the nearby park and neighborhood.<\/p>\n Timeline: early 2027Cost: $157,500Funding source: city of Houston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction of safer pedestrian crossings on Ella Boulevard is expected to kick off in the first quarter of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1604,138726,56,4626,58,57,15654,57471,138728,223,138729,840,7493,138727,129277],"class_list":["post-394208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-community-impact","tag-ella-boulevard","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-intersection","tag-memorial-heights-redevelopment-authority","tag-new-traffic-signal","tag-news","tag-pedestrian-safety-upgrades","tag-transportation","tag-update","tag-w-22nd-st","tag-what039s-happening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}