In January, TxDOT tweaked its plans for an I-10 elevation project that officials said would address flooding issues near the Heights. However, residents feel the 'disastrous plan' still has negative effects.
Thursday, March 28, 2024 10:24PMThe Texas Department of Transportation has tweaked its plans for an I-10 elevation project that officials said will address flooding issues that have left the highway impassable near the Heights 10 times since 1992.
At Wednesday's 6 p.m. meeting, advocates said they hope to educate the community about the negative effects of TxDOT's current plan, showcase the alternative, and encourage the community to engage before the comment period deadline of April 1. HOV lanes would also be widened from 12 feet to 14 feet wide, and a shared-use path would be built under eastbound I-10 main lanes that connect to trails along White Oak Bayou and on the south side of I-10.Federal requirements call for interstates to remain passable during 50-year storm events, and TxDOT's own standards require them to remain passable during 100-year storms, standards Casbeer said the targeted stretch of I-10 does not meet.
Taking a 26-acre detention pond that was once proposed to go in a forested area north of I-10 between Taylor Street and Houston Avenue and relocating it to be beneath the elevated main lanesAdding a shared-use path connection on the south side of I-10 to allow access to Sabine and Maude streets "This will result in 10 plus years of construction, 80 plus homes and businesses destroyed, 12.5 Acres seized for expansion, the destruction of the White Oak Bayou landscape, and increased noise and air pollution.
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