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The Biden Administration s Department of Transportation (DOT) recently paused a highway widening project in Houston, Texas. The project, known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, would widen Interstate 45. The DOT decided to halt the project so that it could evaluate whether it violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This move comes after an outpouring of complaints from local activists that African American and Hispanic communities would be disproportionately harmed by this project.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs that are receiving federal financial assistance. Some wonder whether the DOT is using this project as a test-run to see whether it can successfully use Title VI to block federally funded projects that disproportionately affect minority communities, especially since the DOT announced that racial equity is a ma
Grieder: Pause on I-45 expansion plans gives Houstonians a chance to really think about the future By Erica Grieder, Staff writer
Susan Graham, a retired nurse who lives in Houston’s Near Northside neighborhood, was bemused as she recalled the beginning days of the Stop TxDOT I-45 group, which she cofounded a couple of years ago.
Back then, she says, she just loaded up her Kia Soul with yard signs and waited outside community meetings on the subject with an email sign-up list and a Mason jar for donations.
Her neighborhood, she knew, might not suffer the worst direct impacts from the Texas Department of Transportation’s $7 billion plan to rebuild and expand I-45 the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, as it’s officially known. But it would be indirectly affected by noise and air pollution. Even worse, the I-45 expansion plan would displace hundreds of families and businesses in the direct pathway of the plan. It could also create scary conditions f
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One of Texas’ most dangerous freeways, Interstate 45, is facing a massive $7 billion rebuild. As Houston’s largest and most expensive project, plans of rebuilding I-45 have been in the making for more than fifteen years by the Texas Department of Transportation.
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