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Texas Highway 4 Upgrade for SpaceX | Texas News
Texas is pouring $192.4 million into a massive upgrade of Highway 4 — the only road linking Brownsville to Elon Musk’s Starbase launch site — as SpaceX’s rocket factory and workforce explode traffic from 700 to nearly 5,000 cars daily. The project, part of Texas’s $138 billion 2027 Unified Transportation Plan, will widen the road to four lanes, add shoulders and a median, and switch to durable concrete to handle heavy truckloads. Plus, a new 3.75-mile bike path is being built in Starbase — signaling that this isn’t just about rockets, but building a smarter, safer future for the region…
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