El Paso District east area project, maintenance closures
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El Paso District east area project, maintenance closures

Purple Heart 375 Widening Project

Sunday, June 29 to Thursday, July 31

Daily, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

  • Purple Heart Highway (Loop 375) north- and southbound alternate lane closures between Montana Avenue and Spur
    601

Crews will be paving and boring in median.

Continuous closure, beginning 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 13 to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 3

  • Purple Heart Highway (Loop 375)
    northbound Iron Medics Entrance Ramp closure

Crews will be demolishing.

Continuous closure, beginning 4 a.m.
Saturday, July 12 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 14

  • Purple Heart Highway (Loop 375)
    southbound main lanes closed from Spur 601 to Montana Avenue

Crews will be relocating barriers.

Continuous closure until further notice

  • Purple Heart Highway north- and southbound shoulder closures from Montana Avenue to Spur 601


Crews will be widening main lanes and constructing north- and southbound frontage road.

Loop 375 Widening Project

Monday, June 30 to Thursday, July 3

Daily, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

  • Americas Avenue (frontage road) southbound right lane between North Loop Drive and UPRR
    Bridge
  • Americas Avenue (frontage road) southbound left lane between Pan American Drive to South
    Americas Avenue

Crews will be working on installing driveways and copings

Monday, June 30 to Wednesday, July 2

Nightly, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

  • Loop 375 southbound main lanes between North Loop Exit Ramp and Pan American Entrance Ramp


Crews will be painting.

Loop 375 Mill and Inlay Project

Monday, June 30 to Thursday, July 3

9a.m. to 4 p.m.

  • Joe Battle Boulevard north- and
    southbound alternating left and right lane closures with possible ramp closures
    between Pellicano Drive and Montana Avenue

Crews will be cleaning the debris from the landscape and restriping.

Horizon/Darrington Reconstruction Project

Monday, June 30 to Tuesday, July 1

Nightly, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

  • Horizon Boulevard east- and westbound right
    lane and shoulder closures between Ashford Street and Kenazo Avenue

Crews will be restriping with a mobile operation.

Monday, June 30 to Friday, July 25

6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

  • Emigrant Road will be closed between
    Darrington Road and Rodman Street

Crews will be working on subgrade and driveway.

Continuous closure until December 2025

  • Pete La Rue Circle will follow detour entrance at Roslyn Drive and Exit Jasper Drive


Crews will be working on final subgrade, pavement operations and milling.

I-10 Landscape & Aesthetic Project

Saturday, June 28

Daily, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

  • Gateway West Boulevard passing Zaragoza Road left lane closure Gateway
  • East Boulevard before Zaragoza Road left lane closure Gateway
  • East Boulevard at Zaragoza Road turnaround complete closure


Crews will be placing concrete riprap.

Monday, June 30 to Wednesday, July 2

Daily, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

  • Gateway West Boulevard at Barranca Drive right shoulder and lane closure
  • Gateway West Boulevard at Chito Samaniego
  • Drive right shoulder closure I-10 westbound at Lee Trevino Drive right shoulder and lane closure
  • I-10 westbound at Lee Trevino underpass right shoulder and lane closure
  • Gateway West Boulevard passing Zaragoza Road left lane closure
  • Gateway East Boulevard before Zaragoza Road left lane closure
  • Gateway East Boulevard at Zaragoza Road turnaround complete closure


Crews will be placing light for sun structure, placing
steel reinforcement & formwork for concrete riprap, drilling/excavating
through concrete riprap, and placing concrete riprap.

Projects with continuous closures

Montana Widening Project

Continuous closure until Friday, December 26,
2025

  • Montana Avenue eastbound frontage road reduced to one lane from Lee Boulevard to Tierra
    Este Road
  • Montana Avenue and Joe Battle Boulevard intersection, northbound and southbound of Joe
    Battle through lanes closed
  • Montana Avenue westbound frontage road reduced to two lanes from Tierra Este Road to
    Joe Battle Boulevard

Crews will be working on building underpass.

I-10 Hudspeth Safety Rest Area

Continuous closure until Friday, July 25

  • I-10 east- and westbound shoulder work between Fort Hancock and
    McNary

Crews will be working on surface grading.

Median Concrete Barrier Project

Continuous
closure until further notice

  • Montana Avenue (US 62/180) east and westbound complete left lane closure between
    RM 124 and RM 126 (Guadalupe Peak)

Traffic will be reduced to one lane in work areas.


Closure is necessary for installation of median concrete barrier.

RM 652 Full Widening Project

Continuous closure until further notice

  • RM 652 westbound lanes reduced to one lane two-way traffic from FM 3541 to Kimble Draw Bridge

Closure is necessary for the reconstruction of the roadway.

RM 652 Full Depth Rehabilitation Project

Continuous closure until further notice

  • RM 652 east and westbound alternating lane closure 8.36 miles east of FM 3541 to Reeves County Line
    Continuous two-way traffic, one-lane work zone requiring traffic to be alternating onto one lane and controlled by Temporary Traffic Signals with a 13-foot
    lane width restriction


Closure is necessary for the construction of new roadway consisting of full depth
rehabilitation.

Please follow the detour signs in place on all projects.
All work is dependent upon weather conditions.

Media contact
Lauren Macias-Cervantes
June 26, 2025