{"id":239424,"date":"2026-04-07T22:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/239424\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:42:16","slug":"texas-dot-to-open-dragnet-runway-truck-ramp-in-median-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/239424\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas DOT to open dragnet runway truck ramp in median in El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/txdotep?__tn__=-UC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Department of Transportation <\/a>(TXDOT) is close to opening a new runaway truck ramp near I-10 in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>In an April 6 project update, TXDOT announced that \u201ca new runaway truck ramp on Loop 375\/Transmountain is almost ready for use!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TXDOT says the runaway ramp is designed to stop a 90,000 pound truck traveling at 90 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<p>The runaway ramp will provide a stopping option for commercial vehicles experiencing brake loss close to I-10.  Since the ramp is in the median of the roadway, trucks will need to use the left lane of Loop 375 westbound to access it.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that this is the fourth runaway truck ramp on the roadway and the first dragnet arrest system, or \u201cmechanical\u201d arrest system, to be deployed in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably the most unique trap that we\u2019ve designed,\u201d said Michael Beason of engineering firm Beason Brackin. \u201cFirst being, the first mechanical system installed in Texas, but it is in a median, and we\u2019ve never done a median application. This is the first of its kind in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TXDOT says that the runaway ramp was constructed in the median \u201cdue to the narrow footprint available at that location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The runaway ramp is expected to open in summer 2026.<\/p>\n<p>See the video below for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) is close to opening a new runaway truck ramp near I-10 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-239424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239424","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=239424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}