(Ed.'s Note: After decades of being promised an East Loop that would divert heavy (and hazardous ) truck traffic from the International Boulevard that passes past elementary and high schools, churches, businesses and neighborhoods, Cameron County and the City of Brownsville is making noises about actually building it. The gasoline tanker truck pictured above is one of many seen day and night cruising past schools (that's Canales Elementary on the right). Local residents remember that it was in 1993 that then-Cameron County Judge (and later U.S. Ambassador to Mexico) Tony Garza, included the project as part of Project Road Map, an ambitious undertaking to upgrade the county's thoroughfares. Plans called for 74 separate projects throughout Cameron County. In its entirety, the project would mean $186 million in improvements and new construction financed with county, state, and federal money. Among Project Road Map's more ambitious components was a plan to extend
Expressway 77-Highway 83 past Lincoln Park to the proposed site of the Los Tomates International Bridge, what we now call Veterans International Bridge. It would also convert Highway 48 into a four-lane highway, and create a loop beginning on Elizabeth Street and stretching to the Port of Brownsville. That last one is the so-called East Loop. It's been 23 years ago since an overwhelming majority of the county's voters approved the bond issue for the projects. How much longer will they have to wait before the promise becomes reality?)
Expressway 77-Highway 83 past Lincoln Park to the proposed site of the Los Tomates International Bridge, what we now call Veterans International Bridge. It would also convert Highway 48 into a four-lane highway, and create a loop beginning on Elizabeth Street and stretching to the Port of Brownsville. That last one is the so-called East Loop. It's been 23 years ago since an overwhelming majority of the county's voters approved the bond issue for the projects. How much longer will they have to wait before the promise becomes reality?)
2 comments:
JUAN MONTOYA-IS ABOUT TIME Building East Loop Children crossin the International Blvd to Canales Elementary SCHOOL AND Porter High School tankers transport chemical dangerous for the kids and people crossin Maybe the commissioners can go and check the area we need the county and City can come to getherwe can help the text bears and thank.
THE EAST Loop is in the precinct 1 area I like to hear Commissioner Sofia Benavides what is her recommendation of the East Loop!
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