{"id":212967,"date":"2010-01-22T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1051475"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:34:23","slug":"anzalduas-international-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212967","title":{"rendered":"Anzalduas International Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
US, Mexico open 1st new border bridge in 10 years under heavy security<\/font><\/b>
\n11 January 2010<\/p>\n

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Photo source : http:\/\/www.usmexicobridge.com<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n

REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) – Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the U.S. trade representative have inaugurated a new bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border, the first new land port of entry on the southern U.S. border in 10 years.<\/p>\n

Travelers began moving across the Anzalduas International Bridge between Mission, Texas, and Reynosa on Dec. 15, but it was officially dedicated Monday — an opening ceremony that, paradoxically, forced it to close briefly.<\/p>\n

Helicopters circled overhead, local and federal law enforcement were out in force on both sides of the bridge and all attendees passed through metal detectors.<\/p>\n

"It’s the bridges that unite the people and elevate the competitiveness of economies," Calderon said.<\/p>\n

The new bridge route, three miles west of the existing Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge, bypasses downtown Reynosa, and is expected to cut about 30 minutes off the drive to Monterrey.<\/p>\n

The route runs 3.2 miles (5.1 kilometers) between the U.S. and Mexican ports of entry and it is open to noncommercial traffic only.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, Texas, heralded the bridge as an example of efforts to ease legal movement on the border and Calderon said commerce would help build the economy.<\/p>\n

"The best opportunity we have to create jobs on both sides of the border is to strengthen ties between Mexico and the United States," Calderon said.<\/p>\n

U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk called the bridge opening "a potent symbol of our connectedness."<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US, Mexico open 1st new border bridge in 10 years under heavy security 11 January 2010 Photo source : http:\/\/www.usmexicobridge.com REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) – Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the U.S. trade representative have inaugurated a new bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border, the first new land port of entry on the southern U.S. border in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}