BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - During an in-depth presentation on Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority’s current workload at a recent South Texas Manufacturer’s Association meeting held at the Brownsville Events Center, CCRMA Executive Director Pete Sepulveda spoke about the Dana Avenue project that will expand a two-lane road with a continuous left turn lane and full shoulders.
“Dana Avenue, another local project that will connect two state roads, FM 802 Ruben Torres and FM 3248,” Sepulveda said.
“There’re schools in this area, there's residential areas, there's commercial areas, there's been multiple fatalities at the intersection of FM 802 and Dana Avenue. So, we're looking at keeping the two-lane road, but adding a continuous left turn lane with sidewalks, so we're making it a lot safer, especially for the school busses that use this on a daily basis during the school timeframe.”
Environmental clearance from TxDOT has been received and the project is moving forward with a final design, he added.
“We've got about $18 million available in federal funding, and so we're short a couple of million dollars, but we'll make that up,” Sepulveda said. “So, we really believe that in the next 12 to 15, months, we can have this project under construction, which would be a huge benefit to the city of Brownsville.”
