Complete Streets Week: Walking the Museum District (Part 2)
Part 2 of Pedestrian Pete walking the Museum District with Kathleen O’Reilly (Vice President, Museum Park Super Neighborhood) and Laurette Cañizares (Executive Director, Houston Museum District Association). They discuss the relationship between urban design and community health, issues with trees and sidewalks, linking the Museum District with the soon-to-be constructed Centennial Garden at Hermann Park, and the need for more mixed-use development.
This is the third video of a three part series covering the Museum District during Houston’s Complete Streets Week (April 15-19). Learn more about Complete Streets Week events and advocacy opportunities at http://www.houstoncompletestreets.org
It’s not necessary to have anything “fancy” – like restaurants and cafes on every block – to justify sidewalks… Just not walking in the street is a good thing for people. And, that’s good for drivers and walkers both! It is, all in all, a, “If you build it – and take care of it – they will come and they will use it.” Witness the number of people who still try to walk someplace even with the crummy sidewalks we have now. To not maintain, much less install, the sidewalks is a terrible waste of a very valuable asset – the public and improved right of way – that belongs to the City and it’s many Citizens.