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State Hi,qhway 24 The Deleqation: The "North East Texas Regional Mobility Council" was formed in 2001 by groups of people from Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, and Lamar Counties. The Council, which is an incorporated non- profit organization, goes by the moniker "NETMOB." · NETMOB's purpose for being is to improve for all modes of transportation - air, rail, highways, and technology infrastructure - that traverse and serve northeast Texas. · NETMOB membership includes civic leaders and elected officials, but is open to anyone who is interested in transportation in northeast Texas. · Shortly after its incorporation, NETMOB chose, as its first priority, to foous on completion of the widening of State Highway 24, from 2-lanes to 4-lanes, across Delta County. The Proiect: State Highway 24 begins at exit 101 on Interstate 30, and traverses through Hunt, Delta, and Lamar Counties, and the dties of Commerce and Cooper, to the dty of Paris and US 271. State Highway 24 is approximately 47.0 miles in length, and TxDOT has widened approximately 30.4 miles (or 65%) of State Highway 24 to four lanes, over the course of fourteen construction projects. The first of these widening projects was the Cooper bypass, which was completed in 1967. 16.6 miles of State Highway 24 remain as a two-lane facility, and this gap needs to be completed. [This is the project and the presentation request: please help us to close this gap by funding right-of-way acquisition and utility adjustments along the entire gap, and construction along the gap between State Highway 19 and the city of Cooper (acquisition and construction documents for work between SH 19 and Cooper are nearing completion; construction documents for the section between Cooper and Hunt County line are still a few years away).] State Highway 24 is a connector route between Interstate 30 and US 271 (and eventually the Indian Nation Turnpike and Interstates 40 and 44 in Oklahoma) which was chosen as a Texas Trunk System route by the Texas Transportation Commission, in 1997. [The Texas Trunk System is a network of highways that augment Texas' Interstate Highway System. Selection criteria for this designation includes connection with principal highways from adjacent states, and highways which serve as a pdndpal connector for Texas cities with populations greater than 20,000.] Unfortunately, funding to widen the remaining two-lane sections of State Highway 24 to four lanes has yet to be allocated by TxDOT.