By Diego Mendoza-Moyers, El Paso Matters The state transportation agency is proceeding with a project to reconstruct and widen a six-mile stretch of Interstate 10 from Executive Center Boulevard to Copia Street in the core of El Paso, even as residents and some of the city’s elected officials for years have pushed back and argued it’s unnecessary. 

El Paso motorists should expect to see their travel patterns and commute times upended when  the Texas Department of Transportation begins work on the $1.3 billion Downtown 10 project in the coming years.  TxDOT is gathering public feedback until Oct. 14. It will likely take another two to three years before the multi-year construction phase commences. It will be the next step in the ongoing project to widen I-10 in Northwest El Paso from Trans

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