Four months, that is how long Mayor Whitmire has refused to comment to the Houston Chronicle. Almost two years on the job, and John Whitmire is still blaming the previous administration. But one thing has been consistent whenever the City has failed to do what is needed: the best way to get it done is to contact the media.
Yesterday, I wrote an article involving numerous large vehicles parked on a residential street and how Councilwoman Kamin had failed to respond to her constituents’ concerns. The mayor also failed his constituents by doing nothing about it. But…
KHOU 11 runs a story, and the next day the trucks are gone. It shows how easy it is to address some problems when there is someone who cares. It should not take the media for someone who claims they want to serve the public to do what is right.
Abbey Kamin and John Whitmire should be ashamed of themselves; if they had any honor, they would resign their positions.
HOUSTON — A Rice Military neighborhood is breathing easier after months of frustration with commercial box trucks taking over a one-way street, and residents said things changed right after KHOU 11 got involved.
“For the first time in six months, we have our street back. There are no trucks. There’s no traffic. It feels like home,” resident Juan Huezo said.
Huezo lives in a neighborhood off the Katy Freeway Service Road near TC Jester Boulevard. He said he woke up Sunday morning to something he had not seen in about half a year: a clear roadway.
Just a day earlier, the street had been lined with box trucks parked in the wrong direction on the one-way street. Huezo reached out to KHOU 11 for help, saying that the trucks regularly loaded and unloaded furniture on weekdays, which he said created safety hazards and blocked resident parking and trash pickup. The trucks then reportedly stayed parked on the roadways on the weekends.
“They were taking up so much space that it really made life inconvenient,” Huezo said.
But less than 24 hours after KHOU 11’s Orko Manna’s initial report aired Saturday night, the box trucks disappeared from the roadway on Sunday. Residents said they made several 311 complaints over the past few months, and some tickets were issued, but nothing changed until the KHOU 11 story aired.
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