{"id":12054,"date":"2020-08-27T17:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2020-08-27T17:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:50:41","slug":"long-forgotten-san-roman-road-gets-major-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12054","title":{"rendered":"Long forgotten San Roman Road gets major upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By TONY VINDELL<br><\/strong>LFN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Road-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Road-photo-1.jpg 980w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Road-photo-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Road-photo-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>San Roman Road as it now looks after a major improvement project.<\/em><\/strong> Photo: Tony Vindell \/ LFN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LOS FRESNOS &#8211; Driving on the southern part of the once horrible San Roman Road is now a piece of cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearly three-mile stretch of road from Texas Highway 100 to the south and FM 1848 to the north has been upgraded thanks to an infusion of money allocated from a partnership between Cameron County and the Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For nearly 20 or so years, the stretch of road was one of the bumpiest and most neglected places in the area just east of Los Fresnos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a half a million dollars has turned the road into a totally different thoroughfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remberto Arteaga, a resident of Bayview, a small township on the other side of San Roman Road, said his wife, Delia, had a fit every time they drove on San Roman Road to get to Highway 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driving on the road was a task. Some sections did not have pavement on it while the number of potholes found there will make a vehicle hump repeatedly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Garza, commissioner with the county\u2019s Precinct 3, said San Roman Road has been a mess in the 20 years since he was elected to the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat road needed to be fixed,\u201d he said. \u2018We finally got the funds to fix it up and here it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garza said a wind farm built to the east of San Roman committed $200,000 to the road project. The county, meanwhile, contributed $300,000 from a bond issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garza said not too many houses are along the three-mile stretch, but now that the road has been fixed it could spark new development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSan Roman Road has been on our sight for many years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe now got it upgraded and it should be totally completed pretty soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY VINDELLLFN LOS FRESNOS &#8211; Driving on the southern part of the once horrible San Roman Road is now a piece of cake. The nearly three-mile stretch of road from Texas Highway 100 to the south and FM 1848 to the north has been upgraded thanks to an infusion of money allocated from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-12054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12055,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions\/12055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}