sent debris flying into a woman\u2019s car.<\/a> Robyn Hackett is still recovering after an excavator on a flatbed hit the bridge on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\nShe recalls the split second she came to a stop.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have steel, you have asphalt and all the other debris coming at you at that velocity, it\u2019s extremely scary,\u201d Hackett told KHOU 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, Hackett is worried that other drivers could be in danger, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just don\u2019t want this to happen to somebody else, and what if there had been somebody in a passenger seat, a child or a loved one, that could have been them losing their life, you know, so I want some change,\u201d Hackett said.<\/p>\n
She wants to see stricter fines for truck drivers who don\u2019t have clearance permits.<\/p>\n
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles can issue fines for truckers and police can write tickets too. TxDOT also has monitors along I-10 at Wirt Road and Mercury Road to alert truck drivers if they are over the height limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is also a long-term solution underway.<\/p>\n
The I-10 White Oak Bayou project will elevate the lanes of I-10 to go above the Houston Avenue bridge. Unfortunately, that construction won\u2019t be complete until mid-2028, according to TxDOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a solution that Hackett says can\u2019t come soon enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody wants to see someone lose their life over something such as infrastructure that can easily be remedied,” Hackett said. “Of course projects take time, and I am aware that there is a project underway to develop that area, but I think four years is too long.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Construction will continue in 2026 when the FIFA World Cup comes to Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TxDOT says it will work to amplify its messaging during the World Cup about potential impacts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur overall goal is to minimize those impacts during the World Cup, including limiting lane closures and keeping lanes open,\u201d TxDOT spokesperson Danny Perez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TxDOT says the Houston Avenue bridge over I-10 has been hit 68 times this year. A long-term solution…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-211360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115171303446839348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}