3. Del Rio - Val Verde County
U.S. 277 Relief Route
PASS THROUGH
PASS-THROUGH FINANCING PROJECT
“We feel strongly that this project is key to
improving regional mobility and economic
development in our area.”
- Sid Cauthorn, Del Rio, Texas
Ports-to-Plains Board Member and Former Chair
4. San Angelo,, Texas – Tom Green County
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Relief Route – Loop 306
Project began in June
2009
Anticipated completion
May 2013
5. Dumas, Texas – Moore County
U.S.
U S 87 Railroad Grade Separation
Projected
Completion Date
C l ti D t
Fall 2011
7. 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
17. Lamesa, Texas – Dawson County
Relief Route
Waiting on construction funding
18. Federal‐Aid Highway Act of 1956
Creating the Interstate System
“Our unity as a nation is sustained by free
communication of thought and by easy
transportation of people and goods. The
i f l d d Th
ceaseless flow of information throughout the
republic is matched by individual and
commercial movement over a vast system of
y
interconnected highways crisscrossing the
country and joining at our national borders
with friendly neighbors to the north and
south. Together, the united forces of our
th T th th it d f f
January 11, 1955
communication and transportation systems
are dynamic elements in the very name we
bear ‐ United States. Without them, we would
be a mere alliance of many separate parts.”
‐ President Dwight D. Eisenhower
