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Laredo, Texas – Webb CountyLoop 20 Extension Project
Del Rio - Val Verde CountyU.S. 277 Relief Route
PASS-THROUGH FINANCING PROJECT PASS THROUGH FINANCING PROJECT
“We feel strongly that this project is key to improving regional mobility and economic improving regional mobility and economic development in our area.”
- Sid Cauthorn, Del Rio, TexasPorts-to-Plains Board Member and Former Chair
San Angelo, Texas – Tom Green Countyg ,
Relief Route – Loop 306Relief Route Loop 306
Project began in June 2009
Anticipated completion Anticipated completion May 2013
Dumas, Texas – Moore County U S 87 Railroad Grade SeparationU.S. 87 Railroad Grade Separation
Projected C l ti D t Completion Date
Fall 2011
TEXLINE TO DALHART – U.S. HIGHWAY 87
Broke ground on first segment in 2005
2005
Let final project in May 2009
Plans for completion by Summer 2011
““This is an ambitious project. It accounts for about one-fifth of New Mexico’s yearly highway construction budget.”budget.
- Governor Bill Richardson
Colorado Construction ProjectsCONCRETE SUPER 2
Boise City, Oklahoma - Cimarron County
Relief Route complete by Summer 2011
Big Spring, Texas - Howard CountyBig Spring, Texas Howard County
Relief Route Waiting for FundingRelief Route Waiting for Funding
Lamesa, Texas – Dawson CountyRelief Route
Waiting on construction funding
Federal‐Aid Highway Act of 1956Creating the Interstate System
“Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy
i f l d d Th
Creating the Interstate System
transportation of people and goods. The ceaseless flow of information throughout the republic is matched by individual and commercial movement over a vast system of yinterconnected highways crisscrossing the country and joining at our national borders with friendly neighbors to the north and
th T th th it d f f south. Together, the united forces of our communication and transportation systems are dynamic elements in the very name we bear ‐ United States. Without them, we would
January 11, 1955
be a mere alliance of many separate parts.”
‐ President Dwight D. Eisenhower