Uptown District and Metro have developed a plan to use the center lane of Post Oak Blvd in Houston as a dedicated bus lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is said the proposal will reduce congestion, as more Houstonians opt for park and ride.\u00a0Uptown Houston PAC has gathered signatures from 1,000 businesses and property owners in opposition to the proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Transportation Controversy is nothing new to Houston. Empower Texas points instead to the Uptown TIRZ and argues that:<\/p>\n
“We have mentioned a number of times that TIRZ best serve the taxpayers when there is a high level of transparency and a specific goal in mind. When these unelected boards are given access to a pot of taxpayer funds, they will go to great lengths to find ways to spend it. Repeatedly the line between economic development and personal interest projects is crossed with little accountability.” \u00a0Empower Texas\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Uptown District and Metro have developed a plan to use the center lane of Post Oak Blvd in Houston as a dedicated bus lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is said the proposal will reduce congestion, as more Houstonians opt for park and ride.\u00a0Uptown Houston PAC has gathered signatures from 1,000 businesses and property owners in opposition to the proposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Transportation Controversy is nothing new to Houston. Empower Texas points instead to the Uptown TIRZ and argues that:<\/p>\n “We have mentioned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}