Results tagged “publicworksdepartment”

Good morning, Houston. If you have an outstanding municipal warrant, it's time to start watching out: More than 150 law enforcement agencies, including HPD, are gearing up to arrest you next week. It's part of the Great Texas Warrant Roundup, which runs for a week beginning Friday; if you don't take care of your warrant, KHOU warns, you risk "being arrested and embarrassed in front of family, friends or even co-workers." No, not co-workers!...

Via Off the Kuff, it seems some residents along West Alabama are wondering when they're going to get their old street back — you know, the pre-Spur 527 reconstruction version, sans contraflow lane and with the old bike lanes back in place. Alabama between Spur 527 and Shepherd, you may remember, was reconfigured to better handle increased traffic expected while the spur and parts of the Southwest Freeway were under construction. Originally, the street had...

If you've ever thought of the people who spend their days at the Galleria as filthy, stinking rich, well, you might not be all that far off: The mall has recently had problems with raw sewage bubbling onto the sidewalk just outside Neiman Marcus. Uh, gross.

As we begin the week, a stern reminder from KHOU: Every time you run over a traffic cone, we all pay. The city's Public Works Department said each cone costs between $10 and $12, and replacing cones last year came to $100,000 — meaning we lost roughly 10,000 traffic cones in 2005. And the city apparently has pretty stringent requirements for its cones: "They have to be good quality, yet malleable so they don't crush your car." Yes, well, we should hope so.