Lake Travis - Westlake Edition | July 2024

Transportation

BY ELLE BENT & KAMERYN GRIESSER

More customs, border ocers headed to ABIA More customs and border protection ocers will be stationed at the Austin-Bergstrom Interna- tional Airport this year. The gist By this fall, four new CBP ocers will join the airport’s 15 ocers, increasing the total number of ocers by 25%. At ABIA, these ocers supervise commercial passengers arriving from another country as well as cargo, general aviation passengers and ve foreign-trade zones. Increasing CBP ocers may help customs move quicker, a news release stated. How it happened In May, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, DAustin, sent a letter to CBP ocials, urging for more ocers amid increased passenger volumes and an ongoing airport expansion program.

“For years, a shortage of CBP ocers has been an obstacle to securing new

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international ights and a source of major

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inconvenience to incoming international passengers and local businesses awaiting incoming cargo.” U.S. REP. LLOYD DOGGETT, DAUSTIN

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Main Street extension delayed to 2025 Work on a road connecting major parts of Lakeway’s new City Center has been delayed from this summer to June 2025 due to wastewater logistics requiring the installa- tion of a new lift station. Regional water districts required devel- opers to add a new wastewater lift station to the site in March 2023 due to how many new residential units were planned, resulting in the project stalling, developer Bill Hayes said at the June 17 City Council meeting.

Arrivals to ABIA more than doubled between 2019 and 2023, according to ocials, and air trac 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, ocials reported.

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