When the constituent called his office, nothing happened. When the same constituent got the media involved, Commissioner Garcia stated they were working on it.
Alejandro Matamoros, 81, has lived in the neighborhood for more than 40 years. He said just checking his mail has become risky.
“It’s been chaos, and it’s been getting worse every day,” Matamoros told KHOU 11. “When they decided to open this street up, we knew we were going to have problems, but we were hoping they would address them right away, but that never happened.”
He said he’s had multiple close calls just trying to pull into his own driveway.
“People tailgate me if I’m doing the speed limit,” he said. “I’ve almost been rear-ended a couple of times.”
Matamoros said he reached out to Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia’s office for help.
“I contacted them right away to see if we could do something about it, but all they would tell me is they’re doing studies on it, and we haven’t seen any results yet.”
Frustrated and hoping for a solution, Matamoros reached out to KHOU 11.
What did the Commissioner do? He lay all back on them.
KHOU 11 News reached out to Commissioner Garcia’s office. A spokesperson said they are aware of the complaints and shared the formal process for requesting “traffic calming measures” like speed bumps.
I’m not sure if the neighborhood is within Houston City limits, but what’s wrong with getting some constables or HPD officers out there writing tickets? Once they have been out there for about a week or two, people tend to slow down. That can be done while the process for speed humps is underway, which will probably never happen, as the people affected are the ones who live on the street. Others may or may not care. Getting that many signatures is difficult.
