NMDOT hosts public meeting for Santa Teresa border region

region to see what’s need as the region rapidly grows. abc-7’s jamie warren is live from our new mexico mobile newsroom. jamie? rick and estela as business crossing the border increases, it can have a big impact on your community. that’s why a company contracted through the new mexico department of transportation wants the publics opinion pkg jerry pacheco, president, border industrial association sot 15:04:26 on that one day we got an extra 600 to 800 trucks a day on our roads jerry pacheco with union pacific says his company has already seen what more business means for the roads 15;03:25 it’ll ease out a roadmap of what we need to do in the future to make sure the traffic doesn’t become a strangle hold for us or a safety concern stand up nmdot says as industry grows– so does traffic and congestion. on the upside, the economy benefits too. randall soderquist nmdot 14:36:10 obviously we’ve been growing incrementally over the years but you have a lot of developers that have been investing a lot of money into the projects that are going on here on both sides of the border nmdot wants to know how those businesses crossing the border will affect you. will communities need more bus routes? will companies need to reroute trucks to lessen the noise? those are all questions they’re hoping to get answers to. the $400,000 study provided by a grant through the federal government, covers santa teresa sunland park and unincorporated parts of the county. stakeholders say it’s a starting point 15:03:48 if we know that now rather then waiting til the last minute we have a chance to go to the nm legislature go into the federal government with a methodical approach there was some concern from sunland park council members during today’s meeting over whether or not their region will actually see the benefits of this study. the contractor tells me they will address those there was some concern from sunland park council members during today’s meeting over whether or not their region will actually see the benefits of this study. the contractor tells me they will address those issues in another meeting tomorrow if you’d like to give input. we have a link to the survey on our website at kvia.com jamie warren — abc-7 more than 3- thousand cubans will be arriving in el paso in the next few weeks. that’s because panama closed its borders to u-s bound cuban refugees and flew them to juarez. when they arrive here … first customs and border protection processes them. that’s to ensure they don’t have an immigration or criminal history or are part of the castro regime. the c-b-p paroles the migrants – that’s their term, which