El Paso Projects: Go-10 and Border West Expressway debut sites

[mwb1848]

Two major freeway projects in El Paso have debuted their Web sites:

http://go10elpaso.com/en/ is the Web site for a project to add CD lanes to I-10 on the city's Westisde. The project will also re-build every bridge within the project limits.

http://www.borderwestexpressway.com/en/ has information on the tolled extension of Loop 375 from Downtown to the Westside.

To fully explain the traffic impact of the the I-10 project, which is in very close proximity to the Loop 375 project, TxDOT's regional engineer has begun referring to it as "the project from hell."

Both sites have cool renderings.

[DJStephens]

Both "projects" are tremendous mistakes.  Enourmous waste of taxpayer funds that would be far better spent other places in El Paso. Neither fixes fundamental structural defiencies in the Interstate 10 corridor.  There has been way too many frills and other wasteful spending in the last 15 - 20 years in El Paso.  Clearview, architectural frills, landscaping, etc.   
"GO 10" does not "fix" the Sunland Curve, a posted 50 mph curve that exists just east of the Sunland Park Mall Exit (13).  Traffic backs up daily at this curve, approaching it from the west, due to volume, a grade to the east, and sun glare - in the AM and PM in both directions.   It has been publicly statedthat it is a desire to "finish the loop" meaning 375.  Why?  Why is this silly redundant loop so important to have directly besides the pre-existing Interstate? 
   A far better solution would have been to relocate Interstate 10 directly atop the West Paisano corridor - from Sunland Park (Exit 13) to the Excecutive vicinity (Exit 16).  The Sunland Curve and the hill would both be eliminated.   Combine both roads in a brand new concrete facility - at least eight lanes wide, with parallel frontage and HOV lane or "diamond" left lane for peak AM times. 

[The Ghostbuster]

Why does US 54's exit sequence start at 20 and count up from there? Didn't the exits used to be based on US 54's mileage?

[DJStephens]

US - 54, or Patriot Freeway?  Good question, have no idea, will have to look more closely while down there.   

[Anthony_JK]

I went to the Hwy 3132 Project Update presentation at LSUS last week.  All the alternatives were presented and some of the pros and cons of each option were highlighted.  My take on it was the Alternative A option has been less econically attractive due to upgrade requirements to LA1 interchange.  It seems one of the B options seems to be the preferred "Build" option.  I also think a "No Build" option will be considered.  It's interesting to note the either of the B options do not directly connect with the Port and there do little to improve or remove truck traffic from Flournoy-Lucas and LA1.  Therefore, I support the No Build option, as stated before, and just wish the money and effort goes into I69.

The alternatives include:
- A "no build" option
- Alternative A – a 3.3 mile controlled-access roadway extending La. 3132 at East Flournoy Lucas Road to La. 1.
- Alternative B1 – a 6.6 mile controlled-access roadway extending La. 3132 at East Flournoy Lucas Road to the future Interstate 69 corridor near Naylor Airstrip.
- Alternative B2 –a 5.9 mile controlled-access roadway extending La. 3132 also from East Flournoy Lucas Road to the future I-69 corridor to Naylor Airstrip.
- Alternative C – a 3.8 mile controlled access roadway extending from La. 3132 near East Bert Kouns Industrial Loop to La. 1 near Leonard Road.

Unless Shreveport moved some 1,500 miles to the southwest, me thinks this doesn't belong on this thread, but rather, that one:


https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=4510.0

[mwb1848]

Why does US 54's exit sequence start at 20 and count up from there? Didn't the exits used to be based on US 54's mileage?

I've been told that it's based on the Texas Reference Marker System.
http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/trm/reference_markers_coordinates.htm

While I find this system to be incredibly complicated and counter-intuitive, I believe that explanation is correct and guides all non-Interstate mileage and exit numbers on I-10 in El Paso County, E.g,. the first numbered exit on Loop 375 EB in Northwest El Paso is 11B.

I would also assume this was used to derive exit numbers on SH 130 near Austin; case-in-point Exit 465 south of Austin: https://goo.gl/maps/3156Zrhw4ZU2

Again, incredibly complicated and counter-intuitive.