The Trench Archives – El Chuqueño

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

Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through

TxDOT has released a couple of proposals for the freeway downtown. They’re not pretty. Here’s a link (with an opportunity

Here’s an op-ed from Morten Naess in the El Paso Times: As a retired Sierra Medical Center emergency room physician,

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

From Albuquerque’s channel 13, KRQE.com: After voters soundly rejected the idea of a publicly financed soccer stadium, New Mexico United

Here’s a story from Bloomberg CityLab about the futility of trying to reduce traffic congestion by widening freeways. “We know

The latest push from the people who want to build a deck over the freeway is connectivity. Connect those neighborhoods

From a September 5, 2021 article by Sara Sanchez in the El Paso Inc.: A multimillion-dollar project that includes rebuilding

Frequent flyer John G. Dungan made this comment on the post Your Representatives in Austin: Frankly, at this juncture, it

Now you know who your friends are. Or at least who your friends aren’t. From the El Paso Chamber of

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

Here’s a Tweet from Lina Hidalgo, the County Judge for Harris County, Texas: NEW: The feds have told TXDOT to

The cap isn’t TxDOT’s purview. TxDOT does transportation. The deck park is a public amenity. TxDOT is, however, expanding I-10

Here’s a message I received from TxDOT contractors via the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Association: As an interested party in the

TxDOT, the Texas Department of Transportation, seems dead set on widening the freeway in downtown El Paso, and not without