Editing El Paso, Texas (section)

===Transportation===
[[File:Hotel Bristol and the Union Depot at El Paso, Texas.jpg|thumb|Hotel Bristol and the Union Depot at El Paso, Texas (postcard, c. 1912)]]

El Paso is served by [[El Paso International Airport]] and [[Amtrak]] via the historic [[Union Depot (El Paso)|Union Depot]].

Several roads and highways connect El Paso, including [[Interstate 10 in Texas|I-10]], [[U.S. Route 54 in Texas|US 54]] (known locally as "54", the "North-South Freeway" or officially as the Patriot Freeway), [[Texas State Highway Spur 601|Spur 601]] (Liberty Expressway), [[U.S. Route 180 in Texas|US 180]] and [[U.S. Route 62 in Texas|US 62]] (Montana Avenue), [[U.S. Route 85 in Texas|US Highway 85]] (Paisano Drive), [[Texas State Highway Loop 375|Loop 375]], Loop 478 (Copia Street-Pershing Drive-Dyer Street), numerous Texas Farm-to-Market roads (a class of state highway commonly abbreviated to FM) and the city's original thoroughfare, [[Texas State Highway 20|SH 20]], the eastern portion of which is known locally as Alameda Avenue (formerly [[U.S. Route 80 in Texas|US 80]]). SH 20 also includes portions of Texas Avenue in Central El Paso, Mesa Street from [[Downtown El Paso|Downtown]] to the West Side, and Doniphan Drive on the West Side. Northeast El Paso is connected to West El Paso by [[Texas State Highway Loop 375|Transmountain Road]] (Loop 375). The city also shares four international bridges and one railbridge with Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In 2009, El Paso was home to number 52, number 98, and number 100 of the 100 most congested roads in Texas, which are, respectively: North Zaragoza Road between Sun Fire Boulevard and I-10; Lee Trevino Drive between Montana Avenue and I-10; and I-10 between the Patriot Freeway and Loop 375.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-road-congestion/ |title=Texas' Most Congested Roads | newspaper=Texas Tribune |access-date=October 4, 2010}}</ref>

In 2009, 79.8% of El Paso (city) commuters drive to work alone. The 2009 [[modal share|mode share]] for El Paso (city) commuters are 10.3% for carpooling, 2.4% for transit, 2.5% for walking, and .2% for cycling.<ref>{{cite web|first=Yonah|last=Freemark|url=https://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/10/13/transit-mode-share-trends-looking-steady-rail-appears-to-encourage-non-automobile-commutes/|access-date=October 31, 2017|date= October 13, 2010|title=Transit Mode Share Trends Looking Steady; Rail Appears to Encourage Non-Automobile Commutes|website=Transport Politic}}</ref> In 2016, [[Walk Score]] ranked El Paso as the 32nd most walkable of the 50 largest U.S. cities, rating it "car-dependent".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.walkscore.com/TX/El_Paso |title=Walk score| publisher=Walk Score |year=2016 |access-date=December 7, 2016}}</ref> The city of El Paso has a slightly lower than average percentage of households without a car. In 2015, 7.4 percent of El Paso households lacked a car, and increased to 8.4 percent in 2016. The national average was 8.7 percent in 2016. El Paso averaged 1.82 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Car Ownership in U.S. Cities Data and Map|journal=Governing|date=December 9, 2014|url=http://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-vehicles-by-city-map.html|access-date=May 4, 2018}}</ref>

====Airports====
 [[File:ELP Front APT.JPG|thumb|right|Airport Security Concourse at the [[El Paso International Airport]]]]

*[[El Paso International Airport]], a public airport four miles (6&nbsp;km) northeast of downtown El Paso. It is the largest commercial airport in [[West Texas]], handling 3,260,556 passengers in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elpasointernationalairport.com/about-us/operating-reports|title=10 Year Passenger Statistics Report|publisher=El Paso International Airport Website|access-date=October 8, 2019|archive-date=April 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422090546/http://www.elpasointernationalairport.com/about-us/operating-reports|url-status=dead}}</ref> The El Paso International Airport serves the [[El Paso-Las Cruces Combined Statistical Area|El Paso-Las Cruces Combined Statistical area]].
*[[Biggs Army Airfield]], a military airbase serving [[Fort Bliss]].

====Railroad====
*[[Amtrak]], the national passenger rail system, serves El Paso at the [[Union Depot (El Paso)|Union Depot]], operating its [[Sunset Limited]]/[[Texas Eagle]] three times weekly between [[Los Angeles]] and [[New Orleans]] via [[San Antonio]] and [[Houston]] and between Los Angeles and [[Chicago]] via San Antonio and [[Fort Worth]].
*Freight service is provided by [[BNSF]] and [[Union Pacific]].

====Major highways====
*[[File:I-10 (TX).svg|20px]] [[Interstate 10 in Texas|I-10]]: The primary thoroughfare through the city, connecting the city with other major U.S. cities such as [[Los Angeles]], [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], [[San Antonio]], [[Houston]], [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], [[New Orleans]], [[Gulfport, Mississippi|Gulfport]] and [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], with the east end located in [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]]. I-10 is also a connector to [[Interstate 25|I-25]], which connects with the cities of [[Albuquerque]], [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]], [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]], [[Denver]], [[Fort Collins, Colorado|Fort Collins]], [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]], [[Casper, Wyoming|Casper]], and north to the interchange with I-90, located in [[Buffalo, Wyoming]].
*[[File:I-110 (TX).svg|20px]] [[Interstate 110 in Texas|I-110]]: I-110 is a spur of I-10 providing access to the [[Bridge of the Americas (El Paso–Ciudad Juárez)|Bridge of the Americas]] over the [[Rio Grande]] to connect with Avenida Abraham Lincoln in [[Ciudad Juárez, Mexico]].
*[[File:US 54.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 54 in Texas|US 54]]: Officially called the Patriot Freeway, it is also known as the North-South Freeway. A business route runs along Dyer Street, the former US 54, from the freeway near Fort Bliss to the Texas–New Mexico state line, where it again rejoins the expressway. The original US 54 was a transcontinental route connecting El Paso with Chicago.
[[File:IH-10-US-54 Interchange.jpeg|thumbnail|right|IH-10–US-54 Interchange]]
*[[File:US 62.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 62 in Texas|US 62]]: Santa Fe Street south of Paisano Drive concurrently runs with US 85, Paisano Drive east of Santa Fe Street to Montana Avenue, then Montana Avenue concurrently with US 180.
*[[File:US 85.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 85 in Texas|US 85]]: Santa Fe Street south of Paisano Drive concurrently runs with US 62 and Paisano Drive west of Santa Fe Street to I-10.
*[[File:US 180.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 180 in Texas|US 180]]: Montana Avenue is a bypass route to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to the east, and [[Flagstaff, Arizona]] to the west.
*[[File:Texas 20.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 20|SH 20]]: Alameda Avenue (formerly US 80), Texas Avenue, Mesa Street and Doniphan Drive
*[[File:Texas 178.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway 178|SH 178]]: Artcraft Road in Northwest El Paso extends from I-10 west to the New Mexico state line, at which point it becomes NM 136, the Pete V. Domenici International Highway.
*[[File:Texas Loop 375.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway Loop 375|Loop 375]]: Loop 375 encircles the city of El Paso. Between I-10 and Fort Bliss, including the stretch that crosses the Franklin Mountains via Smuggler's Pass, it is Transmountain Road. In the Fort Bliss Military Reservation between northeast and east El Paso, it is officially the Purple Heart Memorial Highway. In East El Paso, the north- and south-bound sections are known as Joe Battle Boulevard, or simply as "the Loop". South of [[Interstate 10 in Texas|I-10]], in the east and westbound portion, it is known as the Cesar Chavez Border Highway, a four-lane expressway which is located along the Mexican border between Downtown El Paso and the [[Ysleta, El Paso, Texas|Ysleta]] area. The newest section of Loop 375 is the Border West Expressway, which takes the highway from the Ysleta area and downtown through a narrow gap between [[UTEP]] and the Mexican border. Loop 375 continues north back to I-10 with the New Mexico state line 13 miles away.
*[[File:Texas Spur 601.svg|20px]] [[Texas State Highway Spur 601|Spur 601]]: Once known as the Inner Loop, it was officially named the Liberty Expressway by the El Paso City Council in April 2010 at the request of then Fort Bliss commander Maj. Gen. Howard Bromberg.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100418022732/http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14894650]</ref> It was fully completed on April 27, 2011;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kvia.com/news/27694876/detail.html |title=El Paso's Spur 601 Expressway Now Fully Operational |publisher=KVIA |date=April 27, 2011 |access-date=July 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927075647/http://www.kvia.com/news/27694876/detail.html |archive-date=September 27, 2011}}</ref> it connects the Patriot Freeway ([[U.S. Route 54 in Texas|US 54]]) and [[Biggs Army Airfield]] to the Purple Heart Memorial Highway ([[Texas State Highway Loop 375|Loop 375]]).
*[[File:Texas FM 76.svg|30px]] North Loop Road, as well as Delta Drive between North Loop Road and Alameda Avenue (Texas Highway 20)
*[[File:Texas FM 659.svg|30px]] Zaragoza Road, running more or less north from the Ysleta International Bridge to US 62–180 (Montana Avenue), it lies mostly in east El Paso.
*[[File:Texas FM 3255.svg|30px]] Texas Farm-to-Market Road 3255 runs north from US 54 to the New Mexico state line in Northeast El Paso and bears the city street name Martin Luther King Boulevard.

====Mass transit====
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The [[Sun Metro Mass Transit System]] operates a system of medium- to large-capacity natural gas-powered buses all around the city of El Paso.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elpasotexas.gov/sunmetro/ |title=Sun Metro Homepage |publisher=www.elpasotexas.gov |access-date=July 1, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528013932/https://www2.elpasotexas.gov/sunmetro/ |archive-date=May 28, 2010}}</ref> In 2011, Sun Metro was named the most outstanding public transit system of the year in all of North America for a mid-size transit system by the [[American Public Transportation Association]].

El Paso County Transit makes trips with small-capacity buses mainly in the eastern El Paso area. [[South Central Regional Transit District]] operates two routes from El Paso to [[Sunland Park, New Mexico]] and [[Anthony, New Mexico]].

On September 1, 2009, [[NMDOT Park and Ride]] began operating commuter bus service to and from [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nmshtd.state.nm.us/main.asp?secid=15736|title=History and Facts|publisher=[[NMDOT]]|access-date=November 22, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723002037/http://nmshtd.state.nm.us/main.asp?secid=15736|archive-date=July 23, 2011}}</ref>

Historically, El Paso and Ciudad Juarez had a shared [[streetcar]] system with a peak electrified route mileage of {{Convert|64|mi|km}} in 1920. The first electrified line across the Rio Grande, which opened on January 11, 1902, was preceded by a network that relied on animal labor. The system quickly spread into residential and industrial areas of El Paso. In 1913, a {{Convert|12|mi|km|adj=on}} [[interurban]] line was built to Ysleta. At the close of 1943, the holding company [[El Paso Electric]] sold its subsidiary, the El Paso Electric Railway Company and its Mexican counterpart, to one of [[National City Lines]]' subsidiaries. This resulted in the formation of El Paso City Lines, whose domestic streetcar lines were replaced by buses in 1947.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Myrick|first=David F.|title=New Mexico's Railroads: An Historical Survey| publisher=Colorado Railroad Museum |location=Golden|year=1970|pages=189–190}}</ref> The international streetcar line which crossed the border via the Stanton Street Bridge continued to operate until 1973. In 1977, El Paso City Lines and two other bus companies were bought by the municipality and merged to form Sun City Area Transit (SCAT). In 1987, SCAT restyled itself Sun Metro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elpasotexas.gov/sunmetro/sunhis.asp|title=El Paso Mass Transit History|publisher=City of El Paso|access-date=November 22, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603074144/https://www2.elpasotexas.gov/sunmetro/sunhis.asp|archive-date=June 3, 2010}}</ref>

====Streetcar====
[[File:El_Paso_Street_Car.jpg|thumb|El Paso Street Car on Stanton street]]
The [[El Paso Streetcar]] is a [[streetcar]] system that opened for service on November&nbsp;9, 2018, and uses a fleet of restored [[PCC streetcar]]s<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=El Paso streetcars make their return after 45-year absence |url=https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2018/11/09/el-paso-streetcars-make-return-after-45-year-absence/1947542002/ |access-date=November 10, 2018 |newspaper=[[El Paso Times]] |date=November 9, 2018}}</ref> that had served the city's previous system until its closure in 1974.<ref name="EPTimes-2018mar11">{{cite news |last=Perez |first=Elida S. |title=Downtown El Paso streetcars roll closer to completion; Sun Metro prepares to take over |url=https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2018/03/11/el-paso-streetcar-project-closer-completion-sun-metro/385896002/ |access-date=November 10, 2018 |newspaper=El Paso Times |date=March 11, 2018}}</ref> The system covers {{convert|4.8|mi}}<ref name="EPT-2016sep23">{{cite news|last=Ramirez|first=Cindy|title=Streetcar work remains on time, budget|url=http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/2016/09/23/streetcar-work-remains-time-budget/90869508/|access-date=December 14, 2016|newspaper=El Paso Times|date=September 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=El Paso streetcar project on schedule, on budget|url=http://www.elpasoproud.com/news/local/el-paso-news/el-paso-streetcar-project-on-schedule-on-budget|access-date=December 14, 2016|publisher=[[KTSM-TV]]|date=October 6, 2016}}</ref> (round trip) in two loops from [[Downtown El Paso]] to [[University of Texas at El Paso]]. The system was constructed under the authority of the Camino Real [[Regional Mobility Authority]], but when the major construction was completed, around spring 2018, it was transferred to [[Sun Metro]], for operation and maintenance.<ref name="EPTimes-2018mar11"/> {{As of|2016}}, construction of the system was projected to cost $97&nbsp;million.<ref name="EPT-2016sep23"/> In 2019, it was reported that the system is losing money and that the number of people using it only reached half its goal in the inaugural year.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ottilie|first=Madeline|date=2019-11-11|title=Streetcars losing money, ridership levels below expectations after 1st year in El Paso|url=https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2019/11/11/streetcars-losing-money-ridership-levels-below-expectations-after-first-year/|access-date=2020-10-04|website=KVIA|language=en-US}}</ref>

====International border crossings====
[[File:Bridge of the Americas (El Paso–Ciudad Juárez), June 2016.jpg|thumb|The Bridge of the Americas as seen from El Paso, Texas, in June 2016]]

The first bridge to cross the Rio Grande at El Paso del Norte was built in the time of [[Nueva España]], over 250 years ago, from wood hauled in from Santa Fe.<ref>Paul Horgan, ''Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History''. Volume 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 Vols. in 1, 1038 pages – Wesleyan University Press 1991, 4th Reprint, {{ISBN|0-8195-6251-3}}</ref> This bridge is honored by the modern [[Paso del Norte International Bridge|Santa Fe Street Bridge]], and Santa Fe Street in downtown El Paso.

Several bridges serve the El Paso–Ciudad Juárez area:

*[[Bridge of the Americas (El Paso – Ciudad Juárez)|Bridge of the Americas]], also known as the Cordova Bridge.
*[[Good Neighbor International Bridge]], also known as the Stanton Street Bridge
*[[Paso del Norte International Bridge]], also known as the Santa Fe Street Bridge.
*[[Ysleta–Zaragoza International Bridge]], also known as the Zaragoza Bridge.

The city collects tolls at its international bridges,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.kveo.com/news/migrant-crisis-costs-el-paso-1-3-million-in-bridge-revenue/|title=Migrant crisis costs El Paso $1.3 million in bridge revenue|last=Resendiz|first=Julian|date=August 20, 2019|work=KVEO-TV|language=en-US|access-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref> except for the Bridge of the Americas, which is free. All bridges are open year-round.<ref>{{Cite web|title=International Bridges|url=https://www.elpasotexas.gov/international-bridges|access-date=2020-10-04|website=www.elpasotexas.gov}}</ref>