Farm to Market Road 1171
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| Farm to Market Road 1171 |
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| Length: | 16.45[1][2] mi (26.47 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1949[1] | ||||||||
| East end: |  IH-35E in Lewisville |
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| Major junctions: |
 FM 2499 in Flower Mound US 377 in Northlake |
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| West end: |  IH-35W in Denton County |
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Farm to Market Road 1171 or FM 1171 is the highway number applied to both the current stretch of road that actually bears that designation, and its former, more widely-used companion, Urban Road 1171. As part of a modernization and budgetary process in the late 1990s, the Texas Department of Transportation, or TxDOT began reclassifying certain former Farm to Market roads as Urban Roads in areas that had developed from farm land into primarily urban and suburban cities. By doing so, TxDOT could budget and maintain the roads separately from each other, without drawing resources away from rural areas that continued to need upkeep and expansion.
Urban Road 1171 is the proper designation for the segment of highway that extends from IH-35E eastward to IH-35W. This six-lane highway serves traffic from Lewisville and Flower Mound and was the original highway linking the nearby farms to what was then U.S. Highway 77. Bearing little resemblence to a highway, UR 1171 is more akin to a parkway or major collector street.
Farm to Market Road 1171 encompasses what remains of the original designation, and extends from the end of UR 1171 at US 377 eastward to IH-35W. Plans call for this segment to be widened as well, but for the moment it retains both its rural designation and surroundings. This two-lane winding highway services the eastern portions of Flower Mound and is an often-congested route for motorists attempting to avoid Texas 114 to reach Texas Motor Speedway.
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