SHORTLY AFTER HE TOOK OFFICE IN 2016, HOUSTON MAYOR SYLVESTER TURNER stood before a crowd of elected officials, media, and others at the city's inaugural State of Mobility speech and called for a paradigm shift in planning for Houston's mobility. "We will always have roadway capacity in this state," Turner said, "that will not change. But we should not limit ourselves just to roadway capacity." Though Houston has earned its reputation as a car-centric metropolis, when Turner took the stage that day, the city had already garnered national attention for boosting ridership with a recent bus route overhaul that focused on improving frequency (see "In Defense of the Bus," February 2018: planning.org/ planning/2018/feb/defenseofthebus), and had recently approved its first-ever general plan, Plan Houston, which called for a multimodal transportation system for the region.
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