By Elida S. Perez, El Paso Matters El Paso County is conducting a study to figure out how to draw more traffic through an existing, but underused international border crossing. The Marcelino Serna Port of Entry in Tornillo, also known as the Tornillo-Guadalupe International Bridge, completed in 2016 for $133 million, was anticipated to generate about $20 million in revenue annually for the county through tolls, but that has not materialized. The county does not impose tolls since crossings are minimal. Factors such as connecting roadways and other infrastructure taking longer to complete on the Mexican side than anticipated led, in part, to the lackluster usage of the crossing. The bridge replaced the Fabens-Caseta Port of Entry completed in 1938.

The county is developing an $1.4 million

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