Last weekend thousands of Houstonians celebrated the opening of Land Bridge and Prairie, a 100-acre, roadway-burying project and a major component of an ongoing plan to upgrade Houston’s largest park.
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The focal point of the event, which was billed as the biggest picnic in Texas, was a land bridge that invites humans and non-humans alike to cross safely over the six-lane highway that has divided Memorial Park since the 1950s. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects sculpted the bridge from soil, plants, and hardscape to create a new green space that connects the long-severed north and south sections of the park.
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