BY NADIA TAMEZ-ROBLEDO/ The Brownsville Herald
Article published January 14, 2018
After more than three decades of incremental progress, Cameron County and Brownsville officials anticipate the first phase of a road construction project to divert commercial vehicle traffic away from International Boulevard will break ground this year.
Pete Sepulveda Jr., executive director of the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority, said his office is working with the Port of Brownsville on a wetland mitigation plan for a two-mile stretch of road that will connect State Highway 4 to docks on Ostos Road.
Once approved by state and federal agencies, he said, construction of the road will take about one year and $10 million.
The port connector is the first phase of the larger State Highway 32 construction project, also called the East Loop, which will route commerc
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