Director speaks at conference

Leading the way Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority Executive Director, Pete Sepulveda, Jr. speaks at the Better Border for a Better America Conference focusing on improving connectivity and efficient mobility across the U.S.-Mexico border.                           (Courtesy photo by the CCEMA)

By LULU MAYORGA
CCRMA

Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority (CCRMA) Executive Director, Pete Sepulveda, Jr. recently attended the Better Border for a Better America Conference on September 20- 21, 2023 in El Paso.

Sepulveda was invited to speak at the conference which focused on improving connectivity and efficient mobility across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sepulveda presented Cameron County’s international bridges and projects that showcase the efforts Cameron County has made to invest in infrastructure, technology, and operations.

Sepulveda spoke about projects such as SH 550 Gap 2, which completes the entire SH 550 project that will become an interstate and signed as I-169. This new 10-mile interstate will help facilitate key economic development by creating access through a previously undeveloped area and directly connect the Port of Brownsville to the interstate system, according to Sepulveda.

The East Loop Project serves the international bridge system in Brownsville as well as the Port of Brownsville, which exports, and imports over 6.3 million metric tons of steel petroleum, machinery ores and other international trade exports to Mexican partners. The project, an international bridge trade corridor, which has been on the county’s priority list for decades, will get overweight commercial trucks out of the densely populated portion of Brownsville from the Veterans International Bridge to the Port of Brownsville.

The East Loop Project will create the East Loop Overweight Corridor for trucks traveling from Mexico and the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates to the Port of Brownsville and will reduce congestion on I-69 and State Highway 48, Sepulveda explained.

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