A retail bridge over I-10?

Energy Corridor proposes it

David Crossley, Jul 06, 10.

A bridge over I-10 that contains retail shops has been proposed for a section of the Energy Corridor District, according to a story in The Examiner.

The proposal came up as part of a Livable Center project the Energy Corridor District is conducting. The pedestrian bridge over the Katy Freeway would be the centerpiece of a mixed-use center. The bridge would connect the two sides of the “great divide” that is the Katy Freeway in West Houston, with the highway’s 24 lanes of mostly high-speed traffic carrying roughly 200,000 trips per day, the story says.

The idea behind a livable center is to bring the various components of people’s lives — especially work, residential, play and transportation — into one area with multiple ways of getting around that area.

Jim Constantine of Looney Ricks Kiss, the lead consultant on the project, said that one of the project’s biggest challenges was how to move people from where they live to their 26,000-acre “back yard,” the Barker and Addicks reservoirs.

The Energy Corridor District has also proposed light rail transit service in the middle of I-10, which would presumably now include this new feature in the transit station. Read more.