Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman today said he is pleased the U.S. Department of Transportation is releasing funding he secured in a fiscal year 2009 spending bill for an important highway project in southern New Mexico.

Bingaman secured $1.9 million for the widening and reconstruction of I-10 from Las Cruces to the New Mexico/Texas state line.  The project will increase this section of the interstate from a 4-lane to a 6-lane road.

"This section of I-10 was constructed in the early 1970s and is very much in need of reconstruction and added capacity.  I am pleased the federal government is investing in this important transportation project," Bingaman said.

The project also received $10 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.