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The City is Taking the Buses

2022-02-25 Rich Wright City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, Widening I-10 6 comments

Gas is as expensive as it has been in a while, and it’s going to get dearer. Supply chain disruptions

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What’s Best for El Paso

2022-02-19 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Deck Park, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, The Trench, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar, Widening I-10 6 comments

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

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The Future of I-10

2022-02-09 Rich Wright Slider, The Trench, TxDOT 3 comments

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

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The Deck Park and the Health Costs of More Traffic

2021-12-05 elrichiboy Deck Park, Downtown, Public Health, Slider, The Trench 5 comments

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

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

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

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What’s Next? After Voters Reject Albuquerque Soccer Stadium Bond

2021-11-05 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench 3 comments

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

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Induced Demand

2021-10-07 elrichiboy Slider, The Trench, TxDOT One comment

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

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Consider the Deck Park

2021-09-20 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, TxDOT 11 comments

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

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He’s a Witch!

2021-09-15 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT 3 comments

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

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The Borderland Expressway

2021-07-28 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning 10 comments

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

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Your Representatives in Austin

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, Lina Ortega, Slider, Texas State Government, The Trench 5 comments

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

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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

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

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There’s Hope

2021-03-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, Urban Planning, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

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

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TxDOT Isn’t Building Us a Deck

2021-03-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, The Trench, Tommy Gonzalez, Urban Planning 9 comments

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

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The Deck is Coming

2021-01-25 elrichiboy Corruption, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, The Trench 10 comments

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

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L’Trench

2019-11-05 elrichiboy Slider, The Trench 8 comments

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

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A Buck a Month

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The People Speak!

  • Theresa caballero on Bait and Switch
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  • JerryK on Bait and Switch
  • JerryK on City of El Paso Strategic Communications Director LAURA CRUZ-ACOSTA BARS MEDIA FROM INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES FOR POLICE CHIEF
  • John G. Dungan on Bait and Switch
  • JerryK on TOTAL DEBT OF OUR FIVE TAXING ENTITIES EXCEEDS $5.1 BILLION!
  • Susan Brierley on City of Dust: Vaughn, New Mexico
  • Charles L. Gholz on La Fiesta
  • Annette on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • JerryK on COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR ATTACKS NON-PARTISAN PETITION
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