Introduction:

This study determines the impacts and feasibility of a four-lane highway between the Texas/Mexico border and Denver, Colorado, via the existing IH 27 corridor between Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas.  A principal reason for evaluating transportation improvement needs in the Ports to Plains corridor is related to the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, which created a free trade zone between the US, Mexico and Canada.

Executive Summary:

• June 2001 - (in Adobe Acrobat)

Newsletter:

• Volume 3, June 2001 - (in Adobe Acrobat)

Additional Website:

• http://www.wilbursmith.com/portstoplains/
• http://www.portstoplainscorridor.com/overview/overview.html

For more information contact:
Peggy Thurin
Texas Department of Transportation
telephone: (512) 486-5036
email: pthurin@dot.state.tx.us

Transportation Planning and Programming Division | Additional Major Investment Studies