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Category: Widening I-10

It’s Better to Hire a Legislator Than a Lobbyist

2024-10-02 Rich Wright Deck Park, El Paso Delegation, Ethics, Joe Moody, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 2 comments

For the person doing the hiring. Not for the legislator’s constituents. District 78 State Representative Joe Moody’s day job is

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Who Does Our State Delegation Represent?

2024-08-27 Rich Wright César Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, Deck Park, El Paso Delegation, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 2 comments

Normally if voters wanted to derail TxDOT’s plans to widen the freeway through downtown El Paso, they could complain to

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Retrovision: “El Paso’s Highway Boondoggle”

2024-08-06 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 One comment

This post originally appeared on 2023-11-19. An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication

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Adios, You Lying Lame Duck Carpetbagger

2024-06-11 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 5 comments

The word on the street is that lame duck carpetbagger Andrea Hutchins of the El Paso Chamber has organized letters

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El Paso’s Highway Boondoggle

2023-11-19 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication Highway Boondoggles 8: Doubling Down on

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A Tax By Any Other Name

2023-05-10 Max Grossman Cesar Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, Mary Gonzalez, Slider, Widening I-10 4 comments

by Max Grossman On May 3, the Texas House passed HB 78, which would increase the registration fee for a

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Widening the Freeway/The Deck

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, TxDOT, Widening I-10 One comment

I am against widening the freeway, and subsequently building a deck over it. Widening the freeway to reduce traffic is

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Traffic Studies

2022-08-09 Rich Wright Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

“It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August

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“Why Roads ALWAYS Fill Up, No Matter How Much We Widen Them”

2022-07-04 elrichiboy Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 4 comments
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The Naked Emperor

2022-04-05 Rich Wright Deck Park, Liar Liar, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 3 comments

Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty

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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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