Ports-To-Plains Alliance- The Color of Progress

Laredo, Texas – Webb CountyLoop 20 Extension Project

Del Rio - Val Verde CountyU.S. 277 Relief Route

PASS-THROUGH FINANCING PROJECT PASS THROUGH FINANCING PROJECT

“We feel strongly that this project is key to improving regional mobility and economic improving regional mobility and economic development in our area.”

- Sid Cauthorn, Del Rio, TexasPorts-to-Plains Board Member and Former Chair

San Angelo, Texas – Tom Green Countyg ,

Relief Route – Loop 306Relief Route Loop 306

Project began in June 2009

Anticipated completion Anticipated completion May 2013

Dumas, Texas – Moore County U S 87 Railroad Grade SeparationU.S. 87 Railroad Grade Separation

Projected C l ti D t Completion Date

Fall 2011

TEXLINE TO DALHART – U.S. HIGHWAY 87

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

Colorado Construction ProjectsCONCRETE SUPER 2

Boise City, Oklahoma - Cimarron County

Relief Route complete by Summer 2011

Big Spring, Texas - Howard CountyBig Spring, Texas Howard County

Relief Route Waiting for FundingRelief Route Waiting for Funding

Lamesa, Texas – Dawson CountyRelief Route

Waiting on construction funding

Federal‐Aid Highway Act of 1956Creating the Interstate System

“Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy 

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Creating the Interstate System

transportation of people and goods. The ceaseless flow of information throughout the republic is matched by individual and commercial movement over a vast system of yinterconnected highways crisscrossing the country and joining at our national borders with friendly neighbors to the north and 

th  T th  th   it d f   f   south. Together, the united forces of our communication and transportation systems are dynamic elements in the very name we bear ‐ United States. Without them, we would 

January 11, 1955

be a mere alliance of many separate parts.”

‐ President Dwight D. Eisenhower