{"id":438221,"date":"2026-09-16T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438221\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T23:56:08","slug":"new-georgia-texas-interstate-could-bring-industries-to-state-reduce-congestion-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438221\/","title":{"rendered":"New Georgia-Texas interstate could bring industries to state, reduce congestion, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new interstate could connect much of the Southeast United States in the future, bringing new connections and improved freight transportation from Georgia to Texas. <\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Construction Coalition released its case study examining how the proposed multi-state corridor Interstate 14 could transform the communities around it. <\/p>\n<p>Congress designated the new &#8220;high-priority&#8221; route in 2021 in its Surface Transportation Law. A portion of Interstate 14 already exists in Texas. The start of the future highway spans 25 miles, connecting Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) to Interstate 35. <\/p>\n<p>If finished, the interstate would stretch more than 1,300 miles through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Congress called it the &#8220;Forts to Ports Route,&#8221; connecting military installations, freight routes, and other communities that do not have direct or easy east-west travel access.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/screenshot-2026-09-16-at-7-16-46-pm.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-09-16-at-7-16-46-pm.png \" height=\"297\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The proposed Interstate 14 corridor would go from Texas to Augusta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>                Transportation Construction Coalition<\/p>\n<p>There has not been a new interstate built in Georgia since the 1960s. <\/p>\n<p>The case study by the TCC points out that Georgia&#8217;s Talbot County could see major benefits by bringing in growing industries. The county has a 22% poverty rate and average commutes of 43 minutes. Columbus, Macon, and Augusta would also be connected to I-14, connecting the state directly with Montgomery, Alabama. <\/p>\n<p>The coalition, however, says &#8220;corridors like this take years of planning, coordination and investment, and states cannot make those commitments without long-term federal certainty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The study also points out the new route could help reduce congestion on major roadways. It shows 54% of the main lanes around the proposed I-14 are two-lane roads, and less than one-third have adequate shoulder width. <\/p>\n<p>So that states can plan ahead, Congress will have to fund the future interstate expansion. It must enact a long-term surface transportation reauthorization before the current law expires in December.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new interstate could connect much of the Southeast United States in the future, bringing new connections and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16616,27,29,28,6208],"class_list":["post-438221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-georgia","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438221","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=438221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}