Transportation
BY COMMUNITY IMPACT STAFF
Brays Bayou pedestrian bridge to open this fall State, county and local officials gathered along Brays Bayou on April 9 to announce a new pedes- trian and bike bridge over the bayou will be named after the late Rabbi Samuel Karff. Karff served as the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel from 1975 to 1999. He also advocated for civil rights, social justice and equality. What residents should know The $3 million bridge will open in the fall, Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis said. “The late Rabbi Samuel Egal Karff dedicated his life to fostering understanding, unity and justice while faithfully serving Congregation Beth Israel— the oldest Jewish congregation in Houston,” Ellis said in a news release. “It is our profound honor to dedicate this pedestrian bridge in his memo- ry—a bridge that symbolizes the connections he tirelessly worked to build across communities.”
Transportation plan gives Houston $405M The Houston-Galveston Area Council unveiled the 2025-28 Transportation Improve- ment Plan on April 3, which allocates federal and state funding to transportation projects across eight Houston-area counties. Funding is allocated every four years as part of the 2045 regional transportation plan. According to TIP documents, the city of Houston will receive $405.48 million in funds for a number of projects, including: • $50 million to reconfigure the Shepherd- Durham Corridor from Loop 610 to I-10 • $44 million for the Westheimer BOOST corridor connecting downtown Houston to West Oaks • $316 million for the Inner Katy corridor project, a multimodal bus rapid transit route
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The details Construction on the county-funded 634-lin- ear-foot bridge will span from North to South Braeswood boulevards. The bridge will be main- tained by the Houston Parks Board, HPB President and CEO Beth White said. “We often refer to Brays Bayou Greenway as the ‘United Nations of Greenways’ connecting so many diverse communities,” White said. “It’s really an extraordinary place. When it’s all completed, we’ll have 40 miles of connected greenways just along Brays alone.”
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