SAN ANTONIO – The Texas Department of Transportation's plan to allocate $90 million in improvements along Highway 410, between U.S. Highway 90 and State Highway 151, on the far West Side, has been announced by Texas Transportation Commissioner J. Bruce Bugg, Jr.
The project, which comes in response to increasing traffic and population growth, is made possible because of congressional passage of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, or FAST Act, which provided long-term funding certainty for critical transportation projects for the first time in 10 years, officials said.
U.S. Rep. Will Hurd represents the 23rd Congressional District of Texas, which includes many neighborhoods near the project.
"Blocked roadways do more damage than just making people late -- they discourage commerce and economic development," Hurd said. "The announcement is important for many residents of my district, especially those who commute to Lackland Air Force Base and Port San Antonio. I was proud to support the FAST Act, allocating resources to Texas so that we can finally tackle our infrastructure problems in a thoughtful, long-term way. The commission clearly understands the traffic challenges that San Antonio is facing and I commend Commissioner Bugg for his leadership in relieving existing and projected congestion."
"This project is just one of many which is part of the statewide congestion relief initiatives known as TexasClearLanes," Bugg said. "There is a sense of urgency at the local level to start as many congestion relief projects in San Antonio and in other major metropolitan areas with populations over 1 million to improve movement of people and goods around our great state."
"I applaud Congressman Hurd's dedication. This area is the most rapidly growing side of the county, with over 500,000 people expected to move here within the next few years," Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said. "This project will go a long way to help get folks moving."
The project is scheduled for completion by winter 2020, officials said.