We can demand better for Near Northside.
The Hardy Downtown Connector represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Houston and Harris County to construct a visionary project that connects communities instead of further dividing them. The current Hardy Downtown Connector plans represent a continuation of harm against the Near Northside community that is already suffering environmental injustice. Beneath proposed park and trail improvements, the current plans for the Hardy Connector are based on a central premise: a four-lane, partly elevated, partly trenched, and capped highway. Despite the amenities HCTRA has proposed to accompany this design, a new four-lane highway, by definition, will produce more traffic- and construction-related air and noise pollution that cannot be reasonably mitigated while further dividing this neighborhood.
Read our December letter to Harris County Commissioner’s Court
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