Completed CRRMA Projects

Spur 1966

The Spur 1966 project connects Schuster Avenue on the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) campus with Paisano Drive via a bridge over I-10. It includes aesthetic elements that reflect the school’s architecture as well as local themes reflective of residential preferences. It was named Spur 1966 in honor of the national champion UTEP basketball team of 1966, then called Texas Western College.

The project length is approximately 0.7 miles. It improves connectivity and mobility by:

• Improving connections and traffic flow between the UTEP campus, surrounding medical facilities, Sunset Heights and Kern Place neighborhoods, and Mesa Street with Paisano Drive
• Creating an additional route to and from the downtown area
• Eliminating the need for UTEP-bound traffic to cut through the adjacent Sunset Heights neighborhood to access the UTEP facility
• The new connection also accommodates bicycle and pedestrian traffic.

The CRRMA provided design services, from which TxDOT then completed the associated construction activities. The project began in spring 2013 and was completed in fall of 2014.