{"id":40866,"date":"2025-07-05T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40866\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T13:37:23","slug":"polk-street-closure-july-3-2025-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/40866\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk Street closure (July 3, 2025) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-381306 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HM-CC_Banner-FB-Share-1000x525.png\" alt=\"The Houston Matters logo on a white background\" width=\"1000\" height=\"525\"  \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s show: We learn about a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/transportation\/2025\/07\/01\/525393\/houston-firsts-traffic-study-of-contentious-polk-street-closure-finds-no-adverse-impact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">controversial plan<\/a> to sever an artery connecting the East End to downtown Houston. A recent study said the project to close part of Polk Street to expand the George R. Brown Convention Center would have \u201cno adverse impact.\u201d Houston Public Media\u2019s Dominic Anthony Walsh outlines what the report had to say and why some community members take issue with it.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: Sleep \u2014 there\u2019s never enough of it, it seems. Or, too often, there\u2019s something affecting the quality of our sleep or preventing it altogether. That\u2019s where sleep expert <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utphysicians.com\/provider\/sudha-tallavajhula\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dr. Sudha Tallavajhula<\/a> comes in. She answers listener questions about sleep and sleep disorders.<\/p>\n<p>And this month&#8217;s edition of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/topics\/shows\/houston-matters\/the-bigger-picture\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Bigger Picture <\/a>takes a closer look at the new movie, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16311594\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">F1<\/a>, about a Formula One racecar driver who comes out of retirement, and we visit a local go-karting venue to get a taste of racing culture in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday\u2019s show: We learn about a controversial plan to sever an artery connecting the East End to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[32414,32415,16304,210,4345,16305,425,53,50,80,26567,32416,6180,1079,300,32417,358,32418,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-40866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dominic-anthony-walsh","9":"tag-f1-racing","10":"tag-full-show","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-matters","14":"tag-local","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-polk-street","19":"tag-polk-street-closure","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sleep","22":"tag-sleep-disorders","23":"tag-sudha-tallavajhula","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-the-bigger-picture","26":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114800903300634031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40866","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=40866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}