{"id":186634,"date":"2026-03-02T11:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/186634\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:32:21","slug":"public-asked-for-input-on-rural-road-projects-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/186634\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked for input on rural road projects in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) El Paso District will conduct a series of public meetings for the 2027\u20132030 Rural Transportation Improvement Program (Rural TIP).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The meetings offer the public an opportunity to review and comment on the proposed priorities on any of the transportation projects coming to Brewster, Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, and Presidio counties, TxDOT said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Rural TIP includes \u201call added capacity and regionally significant projects to be funded within the El Paso TxDOT District during the next four years, including those projects eligible for federal funding,\u201d TxDOT said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Rural TIP is the first step on the road to producing a Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). A short presentation, exhibits explaining how the Rural TIP operates, and projects that are included will be available to view during the public meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The same information that is presented at the in-person meetings will be presented online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To participate in a public meeting in person, residents can attend at the following locations:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">VAN HORN: Wednesday, March 4, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at Hotel El Capitan, 100 E. Broadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ALPINE: Tuesday, March 10, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at TxDOT Alpine Area Office, Conference Room, 2400 N. SH 118<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">PRESIDIO: Wednesday, March 11, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at Presidio Recreation Center, 1200 East O\u2019Reilly St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the virtual option, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txdot.gov\/projects\/hearings-meetings.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> and and search by county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Comments must be received by March 27. Mail to: TxDOT El Paso District, Attn: Rural TIP, 13301 Gateway Blvd. West, El Paso, Texas 79928; or send email to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:Jose.Bocanegra@txdot.gov\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jose.Bocanegra@txdot.gov;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose.Bocanegra@txdot.gov<\/a>,\u00a0 Attention: Rural TIP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) El Paso District will conduct a series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[74573,138,140,139,4464,60352,17469,74574,27,56425,271],"class_list":["post-186634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-2027-2030-rural-transportation-improvement-program","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-jeff-davis","tag-public-meeting","tag-public-meetings","tag-statewide-transportation-improvement-program","tag-texas","tag-transportation-projects","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}