Traffic across town has really turned into a headache during rush hour, but there's one side of town in particular that's seeing the brunt of it all.

"This is the new Far East El Paso, it's growing and it seems like if everybody is out here now," said Alberto Chavez of east El Paso.

Chavez recalls the eastside when it stopped a little past Cielo Vista mall. "I'm old school. I remember all the way up to McRae, up to Eastwood hospital,” Chavez said. “This is a whole new city, a whole different El Paso, so much traffic, so many new schools, so many people.”

The rapid growth of the far east side shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Recently, the city began installing new street lights and traffic signals on the eastside. "Good! It's about time they did something about it," said long-time east El Pasoan, Gloria De La Cruz.

De La Cruz, a Montwood high school parent, hopes a new set of traffic lights on Bob Mitchell Drivel and Saul Kleinfeld Drive will help with the traffic headaches when picking up and dropping off her son.

"There's a line from Montwood to Saul Kleinfeld,” De La Cruz added. "You take forever to get to the other side of Saul Kleinfeld by Montwood High School, now with the lights that will help traffic flow more." The project cost about $150,000.

Police told KFOX to date they have responded to eight car crashes at the Montwood/ Saul Kleinfeld intersection, three of those involving pedestrians.

Work to install traffic signals has also begun near Montwood middle school at the intersection of Pebble Hills Blvd. and Nolan Richardson Drive. The city hopes the new additions will help with traffic flow and improve safety pedestrian crossing.