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Mayor whitmire says, “We are actually going to enforce the law there.”
I’m glad the mayor told us the law may not be enforced elsewhere. It has been a year, mayor, and you have failed to keep most of your promises to the community. But you are good at deflecting your inadequacies to others, whether they are the judges you claim are responsible for the crime rate or the county judge you seem to dislike. Man up, mayor, and do your job.
“We’re actually going to enforce the laws there, whether it be sound, DWIs, you name it,” Whitmire said. “Public safety is our highest priority, and if we don’t make people feel safe and be safe, hold bad actors accountable, probably nothing else matters.”
I suggest putting Council Member Pollard in charge; he did an excellent job helping clean up the Bissonnet Corridor after decades of worthless mayors like Annise Parker. Turner was mayor when the project started.
“I can stay a whole day from morning ‘til night, until the last customer, before you see me asking for even water,” Ellison said on a recent Wednesday between appointments.
Houston police have closed two stretches of Bissonnet Track roads to curb illicit activity in the southwest Houston area.
In recent years, Ellison’s love of her craft has bumped up against the realities of where her business is located: the Bissonnet Track. For the past five years, WOW has operated out of a run-of-the-mill strip mall inside the one-mile loop that makes up the track, a stretch synonymous for decades with sex trafficking, prostitution and drug dealing.
But over the last several months, Ellison has noticed a dramatic change in the area, the result of Houston city officials taking a simple yet effective step in June — closing two roads in the Track at night — to choke off demand for illicit activity. Gone are the scantily clad sex workers loitering outside Ellison’s business, the slow-moving cars with tinted windows, the used condoms littering the parking lot.
For Ellison and her employees, the revitalization has lifted the burden of navigating such a challenging environment — and conversations with neighboring businesses reveal the same relief, she said.
“The place is looking decent now, the area is looking decent,” Ellison said. “You can walk from the first (end of) Bissonnet to the last Bissonnet, and you feel like, ‘Oh, this is a new state or a new environment.”’
