Houston bike advocates were hoping the City Council would act on the city's first new bike plan since 1993. Instead, the plan will have to wait while councilmembers decide about how to approach funding for the plan's proposed projects.
The Houston City Council has delayed a vote on Houston’s Bike Plan, reports Gail Delaughter. The council was expected to vote on the proposed bike plan on Wednesday, March 7, but several councilmembers "say they have questions about how those projects would be funded."
"Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says the Bike Plan doesn’t mandate any of those projects, but serves as a guide for future planning," according to Delaughter. Yet councilmembers and some members of the public balked at the plan, which sets a vision for about $50 million in improvements over the next decade. Among the concerns voiced at the council hearing on Wednesday was opposition to the possibility that funding from the ReBuild Houston drainage fee could be used for bike infrastructure projects.
Dug Begley reports in a separate article that the vote will wait for at least two weeks.
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