EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has released a 140-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed “Downtown 10” expansion project, a plan to widen Interstate 10 between Executive Center and Copia Street at an estimated cost of $1.3 billion.

The report narrows the project down to four build alternatives identified as Alternatives D, G, H, and I along with a “No Build” option that would leave the highway as it is. All four build alternatives call for widening I-10 through Downtown, adding lanes and making changes to frontage roads, ramps, and pedestrian access.

TxDOT has identified “Revised Alternative I” as its preferred option. That plan would widen the existing trench, reconfigure Downtown bridges, redesign access roads, and reloc

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