{"id":3681,"date":"2025-10-14T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3681\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:16:08","slug":"el-paso-invests-67-million-in-international-bridge-upgrades-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3681\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso invests $67 million in international bridge upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso city officials gave an update this week on the city&#8217;s $67 million plan to modernize its international bridges. <\/p>\n<p>The funding, sourced from federal, state, and bridge-generated revenue, includes $17 million in federal funding, nearly $18 million from the state, and about $33 million collected through bridge programs.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-get-225m-federal-grant-to-hire-officers-boost-community-relations-texas-tx-eppd-department-doj-department-of-justice-tony-gonzales-veronica-escobar?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-police-get-225m-federal-grant-to-hire-officers-boost-community-relations-texas-tx-eppd-department-doj-department-of-justice-tony-gonzales-veronica-escobar?src=link\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso police get $2.25M federal grant to hire officers, boost community relations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key projects in the five-year capital improvement plan include a $6 million toll collection upgrade, which will introduce new software, equipment, and pedestrian turnstiles to all city-owned bridges. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a $32 million intelligent transportation system at the Bridge of the Americas and Zaragoza ports will add cameras and message boards, with construction expected to begin in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>A $2.5 million project focused on maintenance and repairs across city bridges is also part of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:<a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/airport-launches-donation-drive-to-support-unpaid-federal-workers-during-shutdown#?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\/news\/local\/airport-launches-donation-drive-to-support-unpaid-federal-workers-during-shutdown#?src=link\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso airport launches donation drive to support unpaid federal workers during shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roberto Tinajero, director of the International Bridges Department, said, &#8220;The overall objective of this CIP is to facilitate border crossings and trade also to improve our current workspace and to provide better customer service.&#8221; He added, &#8220;You\u2019re going to start seeing the changes little by little. It has taken us some time, but now it is the action \u2014 this is the action plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City documents note that several projects are still in the design phase, but some could begin implementation as early as 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso city officials gave an update this week on the city&#8217;s $67&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3477,1163,138,140,139,3474,3476,3472,3473,3475],"class_list":["post-3681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-border-crossings","tag-capital-improvement-plan","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-federal-funding","tag-intelligent-transportation-system","tag-international-bridges","tag-modernization","tag-toll-collection-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681","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=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}