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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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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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I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

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Vote No on Prop 2

2021-10-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, TxDOT 6 comments

Did you know that blight was a condition to creating a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone in Texas? From the Texas

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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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The Bamboozlers and the Bamboozled

2021-09-30 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 4 comments

An alert reader sent me to this story in New Mexico In Depth: Albuquerque voters will decide in November whether

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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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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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