Footer Text Date PHARR DISTRICT Planning Efforts & Significant Projects November 20, 2014.

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PHARR DISTRICT

Planning Efforts & Significant Projects

November 20, 2014

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Cameron

District Office

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Hidalgo County MPO

Harlingen - San Benito MPO

Brownsville MPO

MPOs in PHARR DISTRICT

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Cameron

Hidalgo County RMA

Cameron County RMA

RMAs in PHARR DISTRICT

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69C69E

2

83

281

77

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1992

1992

REGIONAL MOBILITY PLAN

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Need for Plan

• Traditional funding won’t address needs, and current plans don’t identify all regional needs.

• Competition for additional funding is tough without a single documented plan supported by all.

• RGV is at a disadvantage without one.

• There is a perception that the RGV is not united in regional priorities.

Rio Grande Valley Mobility Plan

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Advantages of a Regional Mobility Plan:

• Provides a single plan covering the entire region.

• Focuses on regional needs.

• Is needs based (not financially constrained).

• Supports local delegations in pursuing additional funding.

• Documents valley-wide support of regional priorities.

• Builds on previous success of past RMPs.

Rio Grande Valley Mobility Plan

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1992 Plan

• Completed approximately 85% of major corridor projects identified (US 83, US 281, US 77)

• Completed approximately 75% of other corridor projects identified.

2003 Plan• Completed approximately 75% of major corridor projects identified

(US 83, US 281, US 77).

• Completed approximately 75% of other corridor projects identified.

Pharr Letting Volumes

1982 thru 1991 = $35 /Yr

1992 thru 2002 = $107M/Yr

2003 thru 2014 = $174M/Yr

Rio Grande Valley Mobility Plan

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Merging of the Three Valley MPOs

REGIONAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY MPO

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Reasons for TxDOT Initiative:• Region will have ONE voice, providing a much greater opportunity for funding regional-type projects (i.e. FM 1925).

• Single regional MPO for the Valley would have almost 1.1 million people in the urbanized area and rank as the fifth largest in the state by population, following D-FW, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin.

• TxDOT Commission and Administration have urged local officials in the past to consider merging the MPOs, most notably at the 9/26/2013 TxDOT Commission meeting held in McAllen.

Space X, 2nd Access, Mazatlan-Matamoros Mexican Superhighway, Mexican oil/gas privatization, UT-RGV, Interstates.

• A single regional MPO would be able to identify regional-type projects needed to address the following major developments:

• One set of planning documents, (TIP, MTP, etc.) for the region instead of three separate ones.

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Regionally Significant Projects

SH 32

SH 550

WEST PARKWAY

US 281 CONNECTOR

SPI 2nd ACCESS

FM 106 (GEN. BRANDT RD.)

OUTER PARKWAY

LOWER VALLEY

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Regionally Significant Projects

FM 1925

SH 68

INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE TRADE COORIDOR (IBTC)

US 281 (MILITARY RD.)

SH 365

MID-VALLEY

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Regionally Significant Projects

US 83 OVERPASSES

US 83 (4 LANE)

FM 755 REALIGNMENT

STATE LOOP 195

US 83 (LA JOYA) RELIEF ROUTE (PHASE I)

UPPER VALLEY

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