{"id":446030,"date":"2026-09-24T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446030\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:20:10","slug":"city-breaks-ground-on-montwood-drive-extension-to-ease-east-el-paso-traffic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446030\/","title":{"rendered":"City breaks ground on Montwood Drive extension to ease East El Paso traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Drivers in East El Paso could soon see some relief from traffic congestion as construction begins on an extension of Montwood Drive.<\/p>\n<p>City officials broke ground on Wednesday on the latest construction phase for Montwood Drive. <\/p>\n<p>The city said the project will extend the street farther east, from Tierra Este Road to Rich Beem Boulevard, in an effort to help ease traffic in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ivan Ni\u00f1o, who represents East and Far East El Paso, said, \u201cThere&#8217;s about 50,000 vehicles that travel outside of district five every day to get to work, to get to school.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ni\u00f1o added, \u201cThe Montwood extension is finally here to help alleviate some of that traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city said the extension is expected to be complete by spring 2028. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/all-lanes-closed-due-to-standing-water-on-mesa-at-montecillo-wednesday-morning?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mesa Street at Montecillo in West El Paso reopens after hours long closure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" 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 Drivers in East El Paso could soon see some relief from traffic congestion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-446030","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\/446030","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=446030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}