bring communities closer together<\/a> and bring safety to the surrounding schools. <\/p>\n“We are talking about delivering safety,\u201d Briones said. \u201cWhy it\u2019s so important: there have been 80 pedestrian incidents. Nine people were gravely injured and eleven people passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Justin Schultz, President and CEO of the Houston Parks Board, Harris County has invested over $20 million for trail and park connections throughout Precinct Four.<\/p>\n
“What that\u2019s going to do is allow 28,000 Houstonians to have access into our trail network,” Schultz said, “and eventually, when the Spring Branch Trail is complete, there will be 11 miles of trails from Addicks Reservoir all the way to White Oak Bayou Greenway. And from that connection, you will be able to go all the way downtown, all the way out to the county line along White Oak. So many places, it\u2019s truly unbelievable.”<\/p>\n
Joe Catrufo, executive director of BikeHouston, a transportation advocacy organization, praised the initiative for its investment in walkability, public safety, and quality of life.<\/p>\n
“It means outdoor recreation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt means health. It means economic development. When you can have places for people to ride bikes enjoyably, not trying to wedge themselves in between trucks and the curb, but in a comfortable setting like what we\u2019re building here, that\u2019s economic development too.”<\/p>\n
The Houston Parks Board has partnered with CenterPoint since 2020 to create utility corridors within CenterPoint transmission easements. The project is funded by Harris County and the Houston Parks Board, and construction is expected to be complete by fall 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided\/Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner’s Office Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Lesley Briones and the Houston Parks Board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161405,63342,56,58,57,40135,66,223,161406,14731,840,34000],"class_list":["post-477549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cocommissioner-lesley-briones","tag-greenway","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-parks-board","tag-local","tag-news","tag-spring-branch-trail-west","tag-trails","tag-transportation","tag-walkability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477549","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=477549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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