David Stout and Iliana Holguin Guest columnists The $750 million TxDOT highway project known as Downtown 10 fails to prove a sufficient traffic benefit or environmental justice result that warrants the price tag, property takings, and years of freeway closures for construction and must be re-evaluated. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) El Paso District has prioritized Downtown 10, which would add one lane in each direction for about six miles from Schuster to Copia.