Editorial: Does the Grand Parkway go on forever? Does the road ever end?
Kohrville Fest. The Kohrville Community Amos Cemetery Association , organized their historical cemetery for preservation and beautification of the grave sites . The site is indeed of repairing broken head stones , new fencing and other maintenance . The Kohrville Amos Cemetery contain special history, buried of ex-slave . Caption) Joanne Green talk to visiter about the history of the cemetery . .before major highways snaked through northwest Houston.
Joanne Green does. Her father used to tell her about the dirt roads – now Texas 249 and Interstate 45 – that led to the community her family helped found and that some still know as Kohrville. Today the area is part of the sprawling non-edge of Houston, tucked just inside the Grand Parkway, where strip malls gobble up former prairie and cement spreads across the land.Kohrville sits just south of one of two proposed toll-funded expansions of the massive beltway.
The basic principle of “just one more lane” has a major flaw: if you build it, they will come. Developers, that is. Any small measure of traffic relief that more lanes might seem to offer quickly grinds to a halt as more people move into the area, according to the logic of what experts and critics call"induced demand."
Transportation officials, meanwhile, seem to view it the other way around: “Developers, they are going to develop what they can and where they can and we are going to build what we can based on the traffic demand,” Grady Mapes, a TxDOT traffic engineer and director of comprehensive development agreements for the Houston areadevelopment they serve and encourage, also add to flooding troubles, something Green says she’s noticed increasing over the years.
When the idea for the Grand Parkway was first developing in the 1960s, Kohrville was just integrating its schools. Green was in fourth grade when that happened.The area’s rural roots reach back to the early 1800s when it was first occupied by a handful of French families, then Scottish and eventually German migrants in the 1840s.
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