What Is WALQ Doing To Get An Alternative Plan Adopted?
WALQ has three basic strategies to help protect our neighborhoods by keeping excessive Spur traffic off our streets: Focus, Demand, Challenge. • Focus public attention on the threat of overwhelming Spur construction traffic and its consequences. WALQ has co-sponsored an extensive street protest; sponsored Town Hall Meetings (November 2002 and February 2003); generated extensive media attention including TV news coverage, front-page features in community newspapers and articles in the Houston Chronicle. • Demand that public officials treat neighborhood protection as their highest priority. WALQ has testified before Houston City Council and the Metro board of directors; met with Houston City Council members and other public officials; participated regularly on the Spur 527 Facilitation Team; liaisoned with neighborhood organizations; conducted independent research into Spur-related traffic issues; and obtained hundreds of signatures on petitions protesting the current Spur construction p
