Transportation
BY ELLE BENT
TxDOT seeks resident input on Hwy. 290 Amid dissent from many residents, o cials with the Texas Department of Transportation are seeking feedback on a project impacting Hwy. 290. Initial plans to upgrade the highway include widening from four lanes to six lanes; adding pedestrian and bicycle accommodations; adding frontage roads and removing tra c signals. The goal is to address area growth by improving safety and mobility, o cials said. Community members have expressed concerns since early this year, citing too many lanes and environmental harm as potential issues. The next step to be taken is the nal design, depending on funding and completion of the environmental study that o cials have been working on since 2022.
More customs, border o cers headed to ABIA More customs and border protection o cers will be stationed at the Austin-Bergstrom Interna- tional Airport this year. The gist By this fall, four new CBP o cers will join the airport’s 15 o cers, increasing the total number of o cers by 25%. At ABIA, these o cers supervise commercial passengers when they arrive from another country as well as cargo, general aviation passengers and ve foreign-trade zones. Increasing CBP o cers may help customs move quicker. How it happened In May, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett sent a letter to CBP o cials, urging for more o cers amid increased passenger volumes and an ongoing airport expansion program.
“For years, a shortage of CBP o cers has been an obstacle to securing new
international ights and a source of major
inconvenience to incoming international passengers and local businesses awaiting incoming cargo.” U.S. REP. LLOYD DOGGETT
Arrivals to ABIA more than doubled between 2019 and 2023, according to o cials, and air tra c as a whole has doubled in the last ve years. In 2022, ABIA was categorized as a large-hub airport by the Federal Aviation Administration, Doggett said. The growth isn’t slowing down, as 2023 was the airport’s busiest on record, beating 2022 as the busiest year by over a million more passengers. In 2024 so far, four days made the list of top ten busiest days at ABIA o cials reported.
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