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The City received a request to name a bikeway after past Planning & Development Department Director Patrick “Pat” Walsh. Pat was appointed the City’s Planning Director in 2014, a position he held until his death in 2018. During his tenure he led the adoption of both the City’s first general plan (Plan Houston, 2015) and the first update to the City’s bicycle master plan in almost 25 years (Houston Bike Plan, 2017).
The City proposes to name an existing, high-comfort bikeway on Woodhead Street from Vassar Street to Westheimer Road the Patrick “Pat” Walsh Bikeway. The Woodhead Street segment is almost completely within Montrose, the neighborhood Pat lived in at the time of his passing and where his family currently resides.
This existing north-south bikeway creates a designated bicycle connection to the commercial corridors of Westheimer Road, West Alabama Street, and Richmond Avenue, as well as to the east-west high-comfort bikeway on Hawthorn Street.
The public comment period on the proposed naming is open until Sunday, September 8, 2024. Please submit your comment below or contact the Transportation Planning team via email at mobility.planning@houstontx.gov.
The City received a request to name a bikeway after past Planning & Development Department Director Patrick “Pat” Walsh. Pat was appointed the City’s Planning Director in 2014, a position he held until his death in 2018. During his tenure he led the adoption of both the City’s first general plan (Plan Houston, 2015) and the first update to the City’s bicycle master plan in almost 25 years (Houston Bike Plan, 2017).
The City proposes to name an existing, high-comfort bikeway on Woodhead Street from Vassar Street to Westheimer Road the Patrick “Pat” Walsh Bikeway. The Woodhead Street segment is almost completely within Montrose, the neighborhood Pat lived in at the time of his passing and where his family currently resides.
This existing north-south bikeway creates a designated bicycle connection to the commercial corridors of Westheimer Road, West Alabama Street, and Richmond Avenue, as well as to the east-west high-comfort bikeway on Hawthorn Street.
The public comment period on the proposed naming is open until Sunday, September 8, 2024. Please submit your comment below or contact the Transportation Planning team via email at mobility.planning@houstontx.gov.
Patrick “Pat” Walsh. Pat was appointed the City’s Planning Director in 2014, a position he held until his death in 2018. During his tenure he led the adoption of both the City’s first general plan (Plan Houston, 2015) and the first update to the City’s bicycle master plan in almost 25 years (Houston Bike Plan, 2017).
