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No bike lanes and the removal of a center turn lane — those are the main points of contention among East Houston residents concerned about the upcoming overhaul of Telephone Road.

"Ultimately, the road that we’re about to design hasn’t been best practice for probably 30 to 40 years," said Ian Hlavacek, an Eastwood resident and traffic engineer. "This is something that municipalities around the country have been working to fix for decades now."

The section of Telephone Road between Lockwood Drive and Lawndale Street, which is the first segment in the redesign project, is currently a five-lane thoroughfare featuring a center turn lane. Under the new design concept, it will lose the center turn lane while it maintains the other four lanes. Aside from a yellow line, there will b

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