Governor Greg Abbott today provided an update from the Alternate State Operations Center on the severe winter weather that is impacting the State of Texas.
7 p.m. - Ice build-up reported at:
TX 130 Toll northbound at TX 29/Exit 415
TX 45 Toll westbound at I-35 and at US 183
US 183 SB at MoPac and at Highway 290
6:20 p.m. - Accident reported on Heatherwilde Boulevard at Wells Branch Parkway.
Accident reported on TX 45 Toll eastbound at Turnersville Road.
5:40 p.m. - Accident reported on Teri Road east of S. I-35.
5:25 p.m. - Ice buildup is reported at the following locations:
I-35 northbound Upper Deck near MLK Jr Boulevard
MoPac northbound at 45th Street
U.S. 183 southbound at MoPac and at Highway 290
TX 130 toll southbound between TX 29/Exit 415 and County Road 104/Exit 417
A fresh blast of arctic air is expected to reach the Houston area on Sunday. Forecasters are predicting the possibility of freezing rain, sleet, and/or snow.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has wasted no time spreading his message that under the Biden administration, everything about urban transportation will change, especially the way people think about it. In the new world of urban transportation, equity and concern for the interests of people other than drivers will take precedence. But this view goes up against a century of thinking that has catered to cars to the exclusion of everyone else, and changing those entrenched habits will prove difficult. For evidence, we offer stories from Houston, where the Texas Department of Transportation gave itself the go-ahead to widen a Houston freeway to ten lanes, and Minnesota, where civic leaders in both of the Twin Cities are trying to push the Minnesota Department of Transportation to get serious about “reimagining” a freeway that cut a historically Black St. Paul neighborhood in two.