Within the Interstate loop, Bissonnet serves or passes a number of historic Houston neighborhoods, including Boulevard Oaks , Southampton and Shadyside. The Houston Press named Bissonnet the "Best Route into the City" in its awards, noting the road's route through "economically and ethnically diverse neighborhoods. Like many other Houston streets established during the early 20th century, Bissonnet is named for a local World War I serviceman who was killed while in the military, George Herman Bissonnet.
In , the Houston Police Department staged an operation, the "Bissonnet Initiative", which resulted in the arrest of more than people involved in a prostitution ring at the intersection of Bissonnet and Beechnut near Beltway 8.
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