Sunday Streets HTX returns to Houston’s streets this fall

Oct 12 - The Heights (19th St)

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Sunday Streets HTX will be returning to the streets of Houston this fall, according to Sunday Streets HTX social media pages and program leaders at the City of Houston. The initiative will start up again with the first fall event on Sunday, October 12th with a route along 19th Street in the Heights (from Heights Blvd to Shepherd) and will continue with events on Sunday, November 2nd (Third Ward/Museum Park) and Sunday, December 7th (East End/Fifth Ward).

The initial pilot events of Sunday Streets HTX took place this past spring along White Oak/Quitman, Westheimer, and Washington Avenue. The City led program is part of the Go Healthy Houston initiative and was started to encourage people to increase their physical activity. For each event, the City closes a neighborhood street to car traffic, allowing bicyclists, skateboarders, rollerbladers, runners, and pedestrians to safely use the street. The initial pilots attracted huge crowds, with an estimated crowd of 20,000 people biking and walking along the Westheimer route in May. Since the announcement that the initiative would continue this fall, people and organizations have been expressing their excitement on social media:

It's official! 10/12: Heights, 11/2: Third Ward/Museum Pk, 12/7: East End/Fifth Ward! Come out and play in the streets of Houston 12-4pm! — Sunday Streets HTX (@SundayStreetHTX) September 18, 2014

Great to see Houston really embracing #OpenStreets and bringing more @SundayStreetHTX this fall! — Open Streets Project (@Open_Streets) September 16, 2014

Houston Tomorrow was glad to be able to partner with the City during the three spring Sunday Streets HTX events by creating a series of videos documenting the opening of Houston’s streets to pedestrians, bicyclists, and every other type of active transportation mode you can think of. Here’s the video from the wildly successful Westheimer event:

Photo: Sunday Streets HTX (Facebook)

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