1. Footer Text Date PHARR DISTRICT Planning Efforts & Significant Projects November 20, 2014

2. Footer Text Date PHARR DISTRICT Cameron District Office

3. Footer Text Date PHARR DISTRICT INTERNATIONAL BRIDGES (13) (1)

4. Footer Text Date Hidalgo County MPO Harlingen - San Benito MPO Brownsville MPO MPOs in PHARR DISTRICT

5. Footer Text Date Cameron Hidalgo County RMA Cameron County RMA RMAs in PHARR DISTRICT

6. Footer Text Date INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS In The Rio Grande Valley 69C 69E 2 83 281 77

7. Footer Text Date 1992 REGIONAL MOBILITY PLAN

8. Footer Text Date Need for Plan Traditional funding won’t address needs, and current plans don’t identify all regional needs. Competition for additional funding is tough without a single documented plan supported by all. RGV is at a disadvantage without one. There is a perception that the RGV is not united in regional priorities. Rio Grande Valley Mobility Plan

9. Footer Text Date Advantages of a Regional Mobility Plan: Provides a single plan covering the entire region. Focuses on regional needs. Is needs based (not financially constrained). Supports local delegations in pursuing additional funding. Documents valley-wide support of regional priorities. Builds on previous success of past RMPs. Rio Grande Valley Mobility Plan

10. Footer Text Date 1992 Plan Completed approximately 85% of major corridor projects identified (US 83, US 281, US 77) Completed approximately 75% of other corridor projects identified. 2003 Plan Completed approximately 75% of major corridor projects identified (US 83, US 281, US 77). Completed approximately 75% of other corridor projects identified. Pharr Letting Volumes 1982 thru 1991 = $35 /Yr 1992 thru 2002 = $107M/Yr 2003 thru 2014 = $174M/Yr Rio Grande Valley Mobility Plan

11. Footer Text Date Merging of the Three Valley MPOs REGIONAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY MPO

12. Footer Text Date Merging of the Three Valley MPOs Reasons for TxDOT Initiative: Region will have ONE voice, providing a much greater opportunity for funding regional-type projects (i.e. FM 1925). Single regional MPO for the Valley would have almost 1.1 million people in the urbanized area and rank as the fifth largest in the state by population, following D-FW, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. TxDOT Commission and Administration have urged local officials in the past to consider merging the MPOs, most notably at the 9/26/2013 TxDOT Commission meeting held in McAllen. Space X, 2 nd Access, Mazatlan-Matamoros Mexican Superhighway, Mexican oil/gas privatization, UT-RGV, Interstates. A single regional MPO would be able to identify regional-type projects needed to address the following major developments: One set of planning documents, (TIP, MTP, etc.) for the region instead of three separate ones.

13. Footer Text Date Regionally Significant Projects

14. Footer Text Date Regionally Significant Projects SH 32 SH 550 WEST PARKWAY US 281 CONNECTOR SPI 2 nd ACCESS FM 106 (GEN. BRANDT RD.) OUTER PARKWAY LOWER VALLEY

15. Footer Text Date Regionally Significant Projects FM 1925 SH 68 INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE TRADE COORIDOR (IBTC) US 281 (MILITARY RD.) SH 365 MID-VALLEY

16. Footer Text Date Regionally Significant Projects US 83 OVERPASSES US 83 (4 LANE) FM 755 REALIGNMENT STATE LOOP 195 US 83 (LA JOYA) RELIEF ROUTE (PHASE I) UPPER VALLEY

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