Election
Transportation
BY JAMES T. NORMAN
BY JAMES T. NORMAN
Galveston County sees slightly lower voter turnout rate compared to 2020
528 • Timeline: project to inish in early spring 2025 but utility relocations and permitting with the TxDOT have delayed completion • Cost: $1.6 million • Funding source: Galveston County’s 2018 bond election 5 West Walker Street improvements 45 the northern part of the city. Update: project expected to wrap up in early 2025 • Timeline: October2024-early 2025 • Cost: $1.9 million • Funding source: from the tax reinvestment fund that is part of the city’s capital improvement budget 4 Hwy. 3 and Hwy. 96 intersection improvements Project: add left- and right-turn lanes throughout the intersection to help with tra c ow Update: construction is back on track following CenterPoint Energy relocating gas lines. 2351 Webster BAYBROOK MALL DR. Project: project includes designing and constructing three new tra c signals along West Walker Street Update: construction in progress • Timeline: expectedto be completed in spring 2025 • Cost: $3.3 million • Funding source: almost all from tax increment reinvestment zone funding
Upcoming projects
Also of note
1 Hwy. 3 and FM 518 intersection Project: new and extended left- and right-turn lanes to improve tra c in the area Update: city o cials said they are waiting for approvals from the Texas Department of Transportation. • Timeline: bidding to come in mid-2025 with completion in 2026-2027 • Cost: $5.3 million • Funding source: League City’s 2019 bond program 2 League City Parkway and Walker Street intersection improvements Project: redesign of the intersection with drainage adjustments Update: TxDOT’s permitting process is nearly complete with bidding expected to start in early 2025. • Timeline: constructionpossibly in summer or fall 2025 • Cost: $2.1 million • Funding source: Galveston County’s 2018 bond
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Harris County in the November 2024 election also had a lower voter turnout rate compared to 2020. However, 2024’s rate was similar to other previous years, data shows. Meanwhile, 2020 saw the highest rate since 1992, which eclipsed 70%.
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Despite a higher vote total in November’s general election than any race dating back to 1988, Galveston County saw its overall voter turnout rate drop slightly compared to the 2020 presidential election. O cial election results from Nov. 14 for the November election showed about 160,000 ballots were counted in Galveston County out of around 247,000 registered voters, according to county documents. Both those numbers are the highest totals for Galveston County dating back to at least 1988, according to data from the Texas Secretary of State’s O ce. That total brought the voter turnout rate in 2024 to nearly 65%, while 2020’s rate eclipsed 67%, data shows.
Voter turnout for Galveston County Voter turnout Voters who didn't cast ballots
A R
Seabrook
CLEAR LAKE
2004 105,981
57.01%
146
GALVESTON BAY
Harris County voter turnout rate
2008 105,004
55.45%
B
A Y
Nassau Bay
518
2012 109,252
58.93%
80% 60% 40% 20% 0 100%
64.57%
58.84%
2016 124,547
59.81%
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2020 153,843
67.33%
KESSLERS CROSSING
96
5
W. WALKER ST.
2
2024
159,853
64.72%
Ongoing projects
SOUTH SHORE BLVD.
4
646
W. WALKER ST.
646
0 50K 100K 150K 200K 250K
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SOURCES: HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS SECRETARY OF STATE COMMUNITY IMPACT
3 Package 7 asphalt projects Project: asphalt overlays and base repairs on roads in
SOURCES: GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS SECRETARY OF STATE COMMUNITY IMPACT
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MAP NOT TO SCALE
517
BAY AREA 1033 Bay Area Blvd (281) 486-9558 LEAGUE CITY
KEMAH 243 FM 2094 (281) 538-9095 SEABROOK 3126 Nasa Pkwy (281) 326-5127
196 Gulf Fwy S (281) 316-2140
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