An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication Highway Boondoggles 8: Doubling Down on
Category: The Trench
The City is Taking the Buses
Gas is as expensive as it has been in a while, and it’s going to get dearer. Supply chain disruptions
What’s Best for El Paso
Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through
The Future of I-10
TxDOT has released a couple of proposals for the freeway downtown. They’re not pretty. Here’s a link (with an opportunity
The Deck Park and the Health Costs of More Traffic
Here’s an op-ed from Morten Naess in the El Paso Times: As a retired Sierra Medical Center emergency room physician,
Fooling Pete Buttigieg
Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build
What’s Next? After Voters Reject Albuquerque Soccer Stadium Bond
From Albuquerque’s channel 13, KRQE.com: After voters soundly rejected the idea of a publicly financed soccer stadium, New Mexico United
Induced Demand
Here’s a story from Bloomberg CityLab about the futility of trying to reduce traffic congestion by widening freeways. “We know
Consider the Deck Park
The latest push from the people who want to build a deck over the freeway is connectivity. Connect those neighborhoods
He’s a Witch!
From a September 5, 2021 article by Sara Sanchez in the El Paso Inc.: A multimillion-dollar project that includes rebuilding
The Borderland Expressway
Frequent flyer John G. Dungan made this comment on the post Your Representatives in Austin: Frankly, at this juncture, it
Your Representatives in Austin
Now you know who your friends are. Or at least who your friends aren’t. From the El Paso Chamber of
Lost Highway
Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane
There’s Hope
Here’s a Tweet from Lina Hidalgo, the County Judge for Harris County, Texas: NEW: The feds have told TXDOT to
TxDOT Isn’t Building Us a Deck
The cap isn’t TxDOT’s purview. TxDOT does transportation. The deck park is a public amenity. TxDOT is, however, expanding I-10
The Deck is Coming
Here’s a message I received from TxDOT contractors via the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Association: As an interested party in the
L’Trench
TxDOT, the Texas Department of Transportation, seems dead set on widening the freeway in downtown El Paso, and not without