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Emmanuel Núñez

3 years

Filmed April 2020 - There was a beauty in the emptiness. Now it’s time to get out there and bike the beautiful, expansive and growing network of bike trails in Houston @BikeHouston @HoustonBikePlan

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

Brought to you by the @TxDOT North Houston Highway Improvement Program

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

Just a bunch of “anti-car activists”, as @houmayor likes to call them, along the Heights Hike and Bike Trail

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Reducing crossing distances with color 🎨 in Third Ward

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

This sight at 10th & Shepherd from today makes me so glad Shepherd Durham Phase 2 is proceeding!!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Washington Avenue will have light rail. I’m speaking it into existence

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Is there anything more Texas than a $9-million, 14.25 mile unprotected bike lane that just falls short of making meaningful connections to the bikeway network of Houston?

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Serious question, do yall think Whitmire @houmayor personally stepped foot heee and seen how beautifully this Shepherd-Durham project is coming along? Sign the Petition to tell him to lift the pause on Phase 2 of this project

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

34,000 townhomes built in the loop in Houston since 2003. According to the Kinder Institute, townhomes are the secret weapon that has led to an urban Renaissance in the urban core. Now imagine if a fraction of them used the first floor as commercial space

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Tunes on 10th 🎶 Three blocks from Shepherd One block from 11th One block from Nicholson Three blocks from MKT Trail Please sign the petition to ask Mayor Turner, my extreme apologies, Mayor Whitmire to continue Phase 2 of Shepherd-Durham

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

Kroger on 11th St & Shepherd. The same intersection along which @houmayor is considering erasing multimodal progress People in Houston want options to be able to move safely outside of cars and we must let them. @BikeHouston @AbbieKamin @MHRAHou @HeightsHTX @HoustonHeights

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

Rush hour along the White Oak Bayou Greenway

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

The MKT bridge reopened last may after 646 days of being closed ✨ It’s a magical connection

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

10 months

11th Street: the geographic center of the Heights is now more walkable than ever thanks to the safety project and it can finally become the vibrant economic and cultural engine it has always deserved to be

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

10 months

Sign of a strong neighborhood: 300 people gathered around a porch listening to music with zero parking spots

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

It should be Criminal that the City of Houston does not keep public pools open every day of the summer

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Total Blackout for southwest quadrant of Houston Heights following last night’s storm

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

Thank you for leaders like @RodneyEllis #ilove11th

Rodney Ellis

@RodneyEllis

5 months

. @HoustonHeights 11th street’s protected bike lane was very active this morning with fellow cyclists.

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

for a city known for car culture, Houston residents overwhelmingly embrace other modes of transportation when infrastructure is safe and connects them with meaningful destinations @HoustonPlanning @METROHouston @HeightsHTX @HoustonHeights @BikeHouston @HoustonBikePlan

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

6 months

@MHRAHou I like what you’ve done with the place ~1700 block of N Durham

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Overjoyed that thanks to community voices, @houmayor lifted the pause on Shepherd-Durham Phase 2. And the beautiful and wide bike and pedestrian promenades of Shepherd-Durham will connect to this lovely trail

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

You can fit 99 city blocks into what the massive NRG complex uses for parking lots. If we developed these lots, we could build thousands of transit-connected homes and hundreds of businesses (shops, restaurants, hotels, parks)--All while keeping parking capacity for events.

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

New bike racks and air pump at Donovan Park, donated by @BikeHouston and @GreenMtnEnergy

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

@AlexMealerTX Wait, that’s congestion? Lmao

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

Can you believe this is Houston? 🚲 🚊

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

6 months

Community Voices of 11th Street. Now live on YouTube!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

METRO almost included green line extension along Washington Avenue to Heights/Yale, but the board members did not “sense a great deal of support for it”.

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

I think one of the most consequential urban projects Houston should address in the next 5 years is the diversification of use and densification of the NRG complex. Here is NRG and Downtown Austin side-by-side to scale

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

7 months

Thanks to @MHRAHou for these raised crosswalks! We need these along every intersection of the hike and bike trails

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 months

Save the date for I Love 11th Festival! Saturday, December 7, 2024

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Confused, enraged at the hostility that this administration is showing to projects that Houston deserves

Michael Moritz

@michael_ulf

4 months

Here is the letter of support then State Senator John Whitmire submitted to the USDOT for the Shepherd Durham reconstruction that he just canceled the second phase of as Mayor. Will Houston hold him accountable? @houmayor

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

11 months

A historic $345 million awarded to bicycle and pedestrian projects throughout Texas, with $53 million allocated to the Houston district

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

I wish more people knew that you can bike from the Heights to Rice University in ~25 min. Thanks to the Pat Walsh Bikeway, more people will know!!!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

The treacherous adventure of getting to Memorial Park. Pls fix. Not in 5 years, now @MHRAHou @MemorialPark @METROHouston @TxDOTHouston

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Serious question, why aren’t all light rail tracts in Houston covered in grass? @METROHouston @HoustonPlanning

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Houston's 11th St. sees major reduction in crashes, accidents

New report on 11th St. redo is not what Houston mayor expected

Changes to the Heights street resulted in slower traffic and fewer and less severe...

www.chron.com

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Does everybody use the arrows on these and pretend they’re like boost pads for Mario kart or is it just me?

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Lights in the Heights 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️ @CenterPoint

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

Montrose TIRZ has full funding to complete the gap between the Waugh bike lane and Buffalo Bayou. Will @houmayor let them?

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

A short thread with views on TxDOT’s project proposed for I-10 in Houston

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

The Heights Hike and Bike trail boasts enough demand to command its own green lights to stop Yale St traffic Here’s a common evening accumulation of hikers and bikers every couple of minutes crossing the undivided street Where else should these be installed?

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Houston is slowly becoming a real city for people outside of a car Do you ❤️ 11th? Get a free sticker

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

Boy, oh Boy, do I love 11th Street

Brad Snead

@bradsnead

5 months

The beauty of 11th Street. An ordinary three generation family safely walking across the street to dinner. This is the point. @heightslife @AlexMealerTX @BikeHouston @emmanume

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Shepherd-Durham Phase 2 "We are trustful that Mayor Whitmire will listen to neighborhood feedback and allow the reconstruction to continue as planned"

Shepherd Durham Phase 2: Safe, vibrant, and economically productive

Shepherd/Durham between 610 and I-10 acted as barriers to neighborhood connectivity. The road reconstruction has already begun to transform it into a world-c...

www.youtube.com

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

11th Street is gaining 2 lanes for half a block Maybe now the hundreds of people that wanted to get juice or donuts but couldn’t because of a median will go now 🙌

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

Say less… Connected to the Trail Trail Facing Patios and Greenspaces Rooftop Cocktail Garden

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

I just rollerbladed along the gorgeous 11th St bike lanes on to EQ to pick up a copy of The Leader #ilove11th

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Thank you for giving the Heights a new “Main Street” @HouPublicWorks @HoustonPlanning @Houston @SylvesterTurner @AbbieKamin #ilove11th

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Reason #249 why biking is freedom

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Do you want to see Phase 2 of #ShepherdDurham project move forward? Send a postcard to City Officials!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

KPRC2 reporting on Phase 2 of Shepherd-Durham from I-10 to 15th Street in Aug 20, 2020 Even though two Heights residents lost their lives at Shepherd & 10th Street, the Mayor has paused the construction To learn more about Phase 2 of the project go to

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Let's take a moment to celebrate the leafy Woodhead neighborhood safe street redesign 🛑 Stops for perpendicular traffic at every intersection 🅿️ Street parking 🛡️Protected bike lane at signalized intersections 🚦Leading bike signals 🚶‍♀️ Speed cushions 🎨 Restriping 🚲 Sharrows

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Small wine bar (Reata Cellars) opts to fill space with cafe patio chairs by blocking off parking spots. At 19th St & N Shepherd

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

7 months

The magic of the trail: biking from the grocery store with my mom and running into neighbors 😍

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

The City of Houston had the foresight to convert an abandoned railroad right-of-way into what is now the Heights Hike-and-Bike Trail. This is how one lot and one intersection changed since 2007

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Pick up your postmarked post card at Bespoke - 501 W 11th St

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Two BCycle stations along MKT trail are back in business 1) at Yale 2) at Shepherd It’s a Bike Rally miracle! Get your tickets now!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Inside the 610 loop, we average 1.16 ped/bike crashes per day 😵

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

8 months

Waverly St mysteriously does not have any traffic control even as the Heights Hike and Bike Trail continues to blossom. Let’s make 2024 the year we make this intersection safer 💪

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

I-10 wants to be capped

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

The approach onto the iconic MKT bridge is about to get safer. Work is already underway to install curb outs to slow traffic down and prevent parking near the trail at White Oak Dr @ MKT Trail Thanks @MHRAHou , @HouPublicWorks !

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

/* Transparency /* @houmayor I requested a copy of the 11th Street report through the TPIA in Feb. Today, I received a letter stating the City will withold the info I requested @g_vinick_abc @rklein1010 @newsmanjerod @storyfulnews @DugBegley @jayrjordan @AbbieKamin

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Behold: The S + D Bikeway in the making by @MHRAHou Part of the transformative Shepherd/Durham reinvestment project

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

8 months

Urban Eats at Washington & Heights Blvd needs our help!!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

“If they’re going to operate at the exclusion of the city of Houston, then the city of Houston needs to reevaluate its relationship with H-GAC going forward.”

Houston set to get just 2% of $488M in federal flood funds from regional council

Mayor Sylvester Turner, who called into the council’s meeting to make the case for more...

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

A line of people wait for bus 222 in Downtown Houston. Nonstop ride to IH-10 at Grand Parkway Thank goodness for high frequency @DowntownHouston @LINK_Houston @METROHouston

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Do you support Shepherd/Durham Phase 2? Call every single at large council member’s office and ask them to take a message, in addition to sending an email

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

The most controversial street in Houston 🤣

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

11 months

It’s no coincidence that one of Houston’s most walkable and bikeable neighborhoods is also one of the most desirable ones. Houstonians want to live in a place where they can walk, bike, shop local, and be surrounded by green spaces @HeightsHTX @HoustonHeights

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

6 months

A community gathering figuring out how to make our voices heard by @houmayor : We support a safe and family-friendly 11th Street 11th Street is working. Let’s work together to continue making Houston a great place to live @AbbieKamin @MarioforHouston

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

9 months

6 acres of parking lots on Westheimer between Montrose Blvd and Bagby St with an approximate capacity for 600 cars. At $4.8M per acre, that's about $30M can someone buy out the surface lots, build infill with a couple of parking garages that can be later converted to housing?

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Nextdoor is at it again

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

@METROHouston please extend the green line onto Washington and up Heights Blvd. Restore this boulevard to its former glory

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Nine-day long trail closures are confusing and place an undue burden. To add insult to injury, the Mayor’s Office of Special Events does not provide detours and endangers trail users with fencing that is invisible at night

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Shout out to El Rey on Shepherd / Washington for their newest addition to bicycle parking network in Houston. El Rey is our household favorite because it stays open late, it is bikeable from our place, has relatively healthy and fast options

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

Heights group advocating for another bayou pedestrian bridge

Heights group advocating for another White Oak Bayou pedestrian bridge

While the Patterson Street bridge is on the Houston Bike Plan, there are currently no plans to install a crossing.

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

[Whitmire] said relocating the library to Westheimer would position it “very close to adult entertainment, on the third story of a commercial building, behind the hamburger building. When I saw it, I said, ‘Not on my watch.’”

Stakeholders stunned by mayor's announcement that Montrose Library move is off the table

Houston Mayor John Whitmire makes surprise announcement that Montrose Library will not move to the Montrose Collective as planned.

houstonlanding.org

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

How I see, perceive, and move around the Heights

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Shepherd/Durham between 610 and I-10 acted as barriers to neighborhood connectivity. The road reconstruction has already begun to transform it into a world-class corridor that Houston truly deserves. We need to finish this project. via @Change

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

This everywhere in Houston ❤️💙💚

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Block walked with Fair for Houston this afternoon. great way to get to know neighbors and help make a difference to make our city an even better place

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

1/ Disappointed that @HouPublicWorks & @FFResidential closed the beautiful bikeway on Waugh indefinitely. Ironic because the developers will probably market the biking network as an amenity for future residents

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Thanks to City Dweller for a great interview to listen to the full episode

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

5 months

I Love 11th receives city proclamation, announces plans for second festival this year via @FromTheLeader

I Love 11th receives city proclamation, announces plans for second festival this year

The I Love 11th community, comprised of business owners, leaders, and neighbors, expressed their gratitude to Mayor John Whitmire, Councilmember Abbie Kamin, and the City Council for officially...

www.theleadernews.com

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Regarding Patterson / Washington intersection improvements, a citizen asked Public Works employee, should we worry about enough people complaining about pedestrian safety islands and having them removed like they did with the floating bus stops in the Heights?

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Memorial City Mall is showing us that even the most uninspiring plans can take advantage of surface parking lots to build something. Almost anything is better than large swaths of sweltering concrete

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

7 months

Please stay on the lookout for distracted driving near Washington & Heights/Yale. These two bicycle crashes happened in under 2 weeks @MHRAHou @AbbieKamin

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

11th St looking good on a Sunday afternoon

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

3 months

@MollyforTexas is such an inspiration to continue to fight for a better future, a better Texas ❤️ Congratulations!!!!! 🎊🍾🎉🎈

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Project almost done! Houston is getting *checks notes* 0.247 miles of protected bikeway along this corridor Taken out of context this looks bad, but soon (5 years) we will have almost 5.5 miles of protected biking along Shepherd /Durham from 59 to 610!

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@emmanume

1 year

If you build it, they will come 🌳 Memorial Park Land Bridge and Praire 🐟 Eastern Glades 🚧 MKT White Oak Bayou Connector 🚲 Lamar St Bikeway

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

New 5-story street facing building with a restaurant on first floor going up in Upper Kirby This needs to be happening everywhere in Houston where a small, single purpose building is surrounded by a sea of parking lot taking up an entire city block

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

As much as I hate that they close BBP trails it’s so nice to see Allen parkway mainlanes reclaimed for a few hours

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Until we stop highway expansions and promote urban infill, mass transit, and walkable developments, the Houston area will continue to ravage our prairies, cause traffic, and undermine our quality of life and of our future generations Traffic counts in 1000s along I-10 since 2002

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

4 months

Top 5 reasons to come to Houston Heights for the 19th Annual Bicycle Rally & Scavenger Hunt! Get your tickets now, don’t wait!

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

11 months

Railway Heights Market is just an 8-minute bike ride from the Heights, provided you're willing to cross three industrial railroad tracts. Railway Heights' downfall underscores the tragic narrative of insufficient pedestrian and bike infrastructure.

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

55-year-old woman using a wheelchair fatally struck by driver of ford Explorer on West 10th Street between Shepherd and Nicholson St Just days after an investigation revealed a stop sign or other traffic control is not needed on this uncontrolled street 😡 @HouPublicWorks

Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

@jayrjordan @houstonpolice Stop Sign Requested Jun 23, 2023

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

2 years

🚶‍♀️ Upgraded pedestrian lighting 🚘Road right sizing 🚲Bike lanes 🚸Protected intersections If you live in District D and support a plan for 3rd Ward with street upgrades at Blodgett, Tierwester, Rosewood, Sampson, Attucks, let your Councilmember know

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@emmanume

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2009 @Houston builds MKT Trail 2012 @TxDOT digs and plants 6,000 trees 2015 @MHRAHou new ped/bike bridge at Moy 2017 @RodneyEllis and @houparksboard White Oak Bayou Trail from Moy to Studemont 2021 @RadomCapital & co. open adaptive reuse MKT Heights 2026 Patterson Bridge (?)

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Emmanuel Núñez

@emmanume

1 year

Critical Mass @HoustonCM reminds Houston every last Friday of the month that the streets are not just for cars and trucks. I finally get it. It’s not a ride, it’s a protest

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