[BrownsvilleTx]

Right now, there's a huge fight between SPI and Port Isabel over the location of the 2nd causeway. SPI wants it at the far northern end and PI wants it built next to the existing causeway.

If you ask me, the preferred location is the northern part cuz PI just can't handle the traffic and not to mention those bastard PI cops who are waiting in every freakin corner waiting to give you a ticket. That's how PI survives and if the 2nd causeway is built farther north, they will loose that income and also for the retailers.

Why build a 2nd bridge next to the existing one? Doesn't that sound stupid?? In that case, expand it. Here's the deal. There is a developer on SPI that is about to build the Ocean Tower 24-story condo and wants the causeway to be built near the condo just like the Bridge Point Condos. PI won't here of it even though the developer asked PI to annex the norther part of SPI (which they did!) and this is another fight brewering between the two. Pi not only annexed the north but the south as well, which is Isla Blanca Park where the jetties is at. This effectivaly trapped SPI with no hope for future expansion.

To make a long story short, don't hold your breath for the 2nd causeway. It's held up in the Legislature and even if it gets built, your looking at about 10 years! Don't turn blue. So there is greed, anger, and confusion over this bridge to last a life time.