Earlier today, officials from the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) and west El Paso businesses announced a new initiative to help drivers stuck in traffic during the GO 10 project. The Traffic Jam Initiative will offer various jam promotional specials and discounts to drivers in west El Paso during rush hour...
Anyone who travels on almost any street on the westside sees the traffic caused by the Border West Expressway. Check out the newest night closures here.
There's no reasonable explanation for what the Texas Department of Transportation is doing to El Paso. Why would you intentionally cripple a city of nearly a million people by shutting down two of its only three thoroughfares at the same time?? Is it some kind of elaborate experiment to see how much punishment a population can take before they start exhibiting symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome?
TX-DOT has announced that commuting on the Westside of El Paso will be a bleak and torturous nightmare which will seem to drag on for eternity. Here's a list of things that will happen before the project is done.
The contractor who won the bid to do all the I-10 expansion work around Executive Center walked off the job. Sorry, gotta go, nice working with you. Bye. WTF?
The Keith family loaded up the family truckster and took a three-day trip to our state capital recently. I love Austin, although being a desert rat for over 30 years now means any humidity makes me feel like I need to shower every five minutes. And it was humid.