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TxDOT Approves Stimulus Funding for US 190 Projects

I-14 Route Discussed at Five-State Planning Conference

TxDOT-funded Strategic Highway route feasiblity study in Texas now underway

For more information:

Judge John Thompson
County Judge, Polk County
Coalition Chairman
936-327-6813
john.thompson@co.polk.tx.us

Gary Bushell
Attorney & Government Consultant
512-478-6661
gebushell@aol.com

A Strategic Transportation System Linking Military Facilities to Deployment Seaports

The Gulf Coast Strategic Highway System is being pursued to meet the military transportation needs of U.S. Army and National Guard facilities in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi -- facilities which must deploy combat equipment through Gulf Coast seaports.  It will also help meet the need to move a growing amount of freight from one region to another.

The Strategic Highway System would also provide relief routes for Interstate Highway traffic at points outside of air quality non-attainment areas and away from coastal tropical storm impacts.  This upgraded highway infrastructure will also provide economic development opportunities in portions of these states that have not kept up with the economic growth which has occurred elsewhere – and do it in an environmentally acceptable way. This graphic illustrates the routes in the Gulf Coast Strategic Highway System. 

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