Keep Texas Moving, a coalition of Texas Association of Business aimed at promoting road improvements, visited west Texas Monday and called for continued investment in infrastructure. “Roads are not keeping pace,” Aaron Cox, TAB senior vice president, said. “Texas is adding over a thousand people and hundreds of vehicles a day. The increase in commercial traffic is testimony to the quality of life in Texas and the economic opportunities.” Coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices are reducing revenue, Cox said, including severance taxes, motor vehicle sales taxes and gasoline taxes.
James Beauchamp, president of MOTRAN Alliance in Midland and Odessa to improve Permian Basin infrastructure, said needed improvements include better connections from west Texas to the Port of Corpus Christi.