KUHF-88.7’s Laurie Johnson reports that Mayor White’s latest effort to imitate Chicago’s Mayor Daley is proceeding apace:
Houston Mayor Bill White first proposed the idea of a traffic mobility team last spring. The past ten months or so were spent drafting policies and hiring 24 civilian mobility officers. White says the team will respond to traffic congestion and help ease the flow in spots where traffic is backed up.
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The civilian officers will be uniformed in khaki with lime green vests. They’ll drive marked vehicles, mostly scooters, a few vans and two lift bucket trucks to assist with fixing broken traffic signals.
Khaki and lime green. Oooh! Take that, Mayor Daley!
The Lime Green brigade will not actually deploy for a few months yet:
The Mobility Response Team, including officers, engineers, equipment and supplies will have a budget of approximately $1.8 million per year. The team won’t be operational until July 1st.
RELATED COVERAGE: KHOU-11 (hmm, do you get the sense the administration’s press team worked the press last week?)
ADDITIONAL RELATED COVERAGE (03-12-2007): The Chronicle finally chimes in.
