‼️ Protect 11th ‼️
You may have heard: Mayor Whitmire is considering tearing out the 11th Street improvements that made our neighborhood safer — for kids walking to school, for runners using the many neighborhood paths, for cyclists commuting to work, for seniors crossing the street, and for all of us who simply want to enjoy a calmer, more livable neighborhood.
We cannot let this happen.
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The 11th Street redesign, implemented after years of public input and planning, added much-needed safety features — including protected bike lanes, safer crosswalks, and traffic-calming measures. These changes didn’t just beautify the street. They saved lives.
Now, there’s a real risk that all this progress will be undone. At a time when cities across the country are investing in safe, walkable, bikeable infrastructure, Houston is being asked to go backward.
Report on 11th Street
The 11th Street project in the Heights has achieved key safety goals:
- fewer and less severe crashes (36% decrease in crashes)
- significantly higher trail crossings at 11th & Nicholson and 11th & Heights Blvd
- the social costs of the crashes plummeted from $1,500,000 in 2019 to $268,000 in 2023
Read more at Axios.
Let’s be clear:
🚧 Removing the bikeways won’t fix traffic.
🚶 It will make our streets more dangerous.
💸 It will waste taxpayer dollars.
👎 And it will silence the community voices that asked for — and won — a safer 11th Street.
🚨 11th Street Safety at Risk Again
The fight for safer streets is not over
