Ground broken on I-10 widening project

Officials shovel a pile of dirt Wednesday at the New Mexico Department of Transportation work yard in Anthony for the Interstate-10 groundbreaking ceremony.

[Ernest Noack]

This is great news, truly... but the most major and dangerous bottleneck on I-10 in desperate need of widening to 6 lanes is between Hy.375 and Executive Ctr.!

[Okay]

People talking about bottlenecks, heavy traffic and the like out here baffle me. After moving to Las Cruces from Phoenix, I fail to see the traffic problems betwen Las Cruces and El Paso and in El Paso proper.

Considering that I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson, which have a combined metropolitan area exceeding 5 million people, are still at two lanes for the 98-mile stretch, I fail to see the rationale behind widening our particular stretch of the 10 given the much lower traffic volume between our two cities. Granted, the central Arizona portion of I-10 will be widened, it has long supported high traffic volumes that make our "problems" seem miniscule in comparison.

Couldn't we find a better way to spend our money?

[cruces ex]

Okay wrote:

People talking about bottlenecks, heavy traffic and the like out here baffle me. After moving to Las Cruces from Phoenix, I fail to see the traffic problems betwen Las Cruces and El Paso and in El Paso proper.
Considering that I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson, which have a combined metropolitan area exceeding 5 million people, are still at two lanes for the 98-mile stretch, I fail to see the rationale behind widening our particular stretch of the 10 given the much lower traffic volume between our two cities. Granted, the central Arizona portion of I-10 will be widened, it has long supported high traffic volumes that make our "problems" seem miniscule in comparison.
Couldn't we find a better way to spend our money?

Man, have you been on that road from 6:30a.m. to 10:00a.m.??? It is needed.

[Disagree]

cruces ex wrote:

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Man, have you been on that road from 6:30a.m. to 10:00a.m.??? It is needed.

I work at Ft. Bliss and also used to live in Phoenix. I had to make the drive to Tucson quite a bit. There's no comparison.

[Disagree]

No comparison meaning that I-10 between Las Cruces and El Paso is not that congested.

[Austin]

Disagree wrote:

No comparison meaning that I-10 between Las Cruces and El Paso is not that congested.

not yet.. but it will be.

[Jim Maynard]

Austin wrote:

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not yet.. but it will be.

Sure will.... when the borders are opened up to our brothers from the South! Just wait...

[mike]

winning bid was 36 million not 52 million. where do you get your info? who gets the extra 16 million? gov. rich.?

[Lee Piquin]

El Paso Needs Car pool lanes! Perhaps another Port of entry near Yarbrough, to ease on congestion at the spaghetti bowl.

[Len]

1-10 through most of Tucson has recently been expanded to four lanes each way from downtown to the Prince road exit and already projections have called this obsolete already. Yeah I go back to Las Cruces about a couple of times a year. You people don't know how good you have it with your "traffic issues".

Okay wrote:

People talking about bottlenecks, heavy traffic and the like out here baffle me. After moving to Las Cruces from Phoenix, I fail to see the traffic problems betwen Las Cruces and El Paso and in El Paso proper.
Considering that I-10 between Phoenix and Tucson, which have a combined metropolitan area exceeding 5 million people, are still at two lanes for the 98-mile stretch, I fail to see the rationale behind widening our particular stretch of the 10 given the much lower traffic volume between our two cities. Granted, the central Arizona portion of I-10 will be widened, it has long supported high traffic volumes that make our "problems" seem miniscule in comparison.
Couldn't we find a better way to spend our money?

[Disagree]

Len wrote:

1-10 through most of Tucson has recently been expanded to four lanes each way from downtown to the Prince road exit and already projections have called this obsolete already. Yeah I go back to Las Cruces about a couple of times a year. You people don't know how good you have it with your "traffic issues".
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Although I miss living in Tucson, I don't miss the traffic--especially when I had to commute 14 miles down Campbell/Kino from the Foothills. A shame that a cross-town freeway system will never happen.

I still hate driving from Phoenix to Tucson with only two lanes of traffic each way and the invariable tractor trailer that blocks traffic from passing for miles and miles. I've seen worse traffic jams between Casa Grande and Phoenix on a Sunday than I ever have between Cruces and El Paso during the morning rush.

[classydawg]

As always someone has to put their crappy two cents in. Who cares about Arizona, I wouldn't live there and can't see why anyone would. People are like crabs in a pot Someone tries to have a better life and the rest of them just pull back down into the pot of boiling water, How sick our society has become. Damn it.