An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication Highway Boondoggles 8: Doubling Down on
Category: TxDOT
A Tax By Any Other Name
by Max Grossman On May 3, the Texas House passed HB 78, which would increase the registration fee for a
Widening the Freeway/The Deck
I am against widening the freeway, and subsequently building a deck over it. Widening the freeway to reduce traffic is
Traffic Studies
“It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August
The Naked Emperor
Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty
TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined
Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is
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
Fooling Pete Buttigieg
Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build
I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe
I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming
Vote No on Prop 2
Did you know that blight was a condition to creating a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone in Texas? From the Texas
Induced Demand
Here’s a story from Bloomberg CityLab about the futility of trying to reduce traffic congestion by widening freeways. “We know
The Bamboozlers and the Bamboozled
An alert reader sent me to this story in New Mexico In Depth: Albuquerque voters will decide in November whether
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
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