{"id":453673,"date":"2026-10-01T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453673\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:50:07","slug":"houston-approves-2-5-million-for-heights-safety-projects-heights-river-oaks-montrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453673\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston approves $2.5 million for Heights safety projects | Heights &#8211; River Oaks &#8211; Montrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston City Council approved <a href=\"https:\/\/houstontx.primegov.com\/viewer\/preview?id=0&amp;type=8&amp;uid=3f19aaa0-9d38-46b8-80fd-f9f65cf08157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">$2.5 million for safety improvements<\/a> in the Heights during a Sept. 30 regular meeting. <\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>The city approved funding for projects that will include installing traffic signals at the intersections along Waugh Drive, North Eldridge Parkway, North Dairy Ashford Road and Brays Bayou.<\/p>\n<p>The project also includes construction of a 10-foot-wide sidewalk along the south side of North MacGregor Way. Additional projects include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/council\/c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">District C council member Joe Panzarella<\/a> said several residents had reached out about safety improvements on Waugh Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really happy to support this,\u201d he said. \u201cThis project adds much-needed safety improvements on Waugh Drive, and I\u2019m really excited to be able to follow and monitor this project and see it come to completion.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>The contract for the project is set for 400 days, with a deadline of November 2027 at the earliest, Panzarella said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City Council approved $2.5 million for safety improvements in the Heights during a Sept. 30 regular meeting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1988,56,4626,58,57,85644,72925,62751,24254,57472],"class_list":["post-453673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-heights","tag-houston","tag-houston-city-council","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joe-panzarella","tag-safety-improvements","tag-sidewalk","tag-traffic-signals","tag-waugh-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453673","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=453673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}