EPISO/BI members who live on Bauman Road in Socorro have been working tirelessly for over a year to keep their homes from being demolished. The City of Socorro and TXDOT have been planning to construct an arterial connection to the 1-10 that may run through their homes.  Leaders and neighbors are calling on the City and TXDOT to choose a route that affects fewer families, and avoids displacing those who are elderly and on limited incomes.

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Neighbors in Socorro are fighting against a road expansion project that they say would end up demolishing about 100 of their homes.

The road expansion project, called Arterial 1, would connect Socorro Road to Interstate 10 by turning a two lane road into four.

There are different alternatives to the project but community advocate Lorena Silvestre, the leader of the El Paso Interreligious Sponsoring Organization (EPISO) says one would affect more residents than the other.

"One of them ...pass[es] along the Bauman Road and Vineyard Road and then alternative two and three goes further down to Clint," said Silvestre.

Longterm Socorro Residents Concerned That Road Project Could Displace Them, KTSM [pdf]

Socorro Neighbors Unite Against Road Project Threatening Their Homes, KFOX14 [pdf]