This week, local and state officials joined members of Congress to celebrate an expansion of Interstate 27. The highway currently connects Amarillo and Lubbock and has now been extended four miles south of Lubbock, running concurrently with U.S. 87.
The expansion is part of the “Ports to Plains Corridor” which ultimately intends to build Interstate 27 north through the Oklahoma Panhandle, eastern Colorado, western Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota, ending at the Candian border. In Texas, Interstate 27 could ultimately extend to Big Spring, along Interstate 20, and south through San Angelo and Del Rio, ending at the Mexican border in Eagle Pass.
“I don’t think there’s a bigger project, a more visionary initiative, that will be more transformational for our region and the country than what we’re talking about today,” Congressman Jodey Arrington said at a ribbon cutting of the four mile extension this week…