The most prominent infrastructureInfrastructure in Houston is the nearly 600-mile networkNetworks of freeways. Running parallel to nearly every freeway corridor is a system of frontage roads that act as a surface-level extension of the freeway. In the local context, streets connect while freeways divide, privileging regional mobilityMobility over community cohesion. The North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP), one of five active freeway expansion or construction projects in Houston, is a key narrative in the international resurgence of anti-freeway activism. The chapter focuses on the power dynamics, processes, and key decisions behind the project by isolating actors and alliances, uncovering the networksNetworks of power in which they operate, and opening the door on backroom decision making. This is the story of an overtly unjust freeway project that is seeking to re-make the city, harden inequities, and de-democratize processes. From federal, to state, to local agencies there is a vacuum where the political will, vision, optimism, and investment necessary to respond to a changing world should be. The gap between what ordinary people and communities want and need to adapt to a changing climate and what those in power are delivering is widening. The result is that in many places, including Houston, inequities across the segregated landscapes of cities are increasing. Freeway projects, perhaps more than any other public infrastructurePublic infrastructure investment, raise the question of agency. Who decides where public dollars are spent, for what purpose, and for whose benefit?