Crystal and Carriage Hills Drive – Street Repair – We Need Your Help

As you surely have felt leaving or coming,  Crystal Hills and Carriage Hill Drive have suffered through a great deal of cracking, buckling, and sinking. In response we have seen ineffectual serial patching over the years. The street damage has been exasperated by the sewer work, and increased traffic due to the construction on Kirkwood.

Houston’s 311 Hotline, provides a platform for citizens to inform the city of infrastructure needs such as those mentioned here.  We are requesting your help to assist in improving our neighborhood streets. The priority of this type of work by the city is largely determined by the volume of requests received. Thus, we ask that you call 311 to request repairs on the phone or submit an online request for service at http://www.houstontx.gov/311/.

The more consistent we are in our requests, the better our chances the city will identify the problem as the same one, and increase it’s priority. A sample description of the problem is provided below. 

“Crystal Hills Drive from the intersection with Briar Forest through the turn into Carriage Hill Drive has been ineffectively patched over and over by COH in the past. Recent sewer work on Carriage Hill Dr. increased heavy truck traffic, which resulted in severe cracking and magnified the problems caused by the serial patching. This street section needs to be repaved, not patched. All of Carriage Hill Drive has suffered a great deal of cracking, sinking and buckling precipitated by the sewer work.  Some sections of Carriage Hill were repaved by COH after the sewer work was completed and, as such,  are fine. However, most of the rest of the street remains heavily damaged.   We ask that the heavily damaged sections be repaved, not patched.”