List of Houston highways
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This is a list of highways in the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area.
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[edit] Freeways
[edit] Present
| Designation | Common Name | Year of First Freeway Section[1] |
Maximum width: mainlanes (HOV)[2] |
Maximum Traffic Count, 2001 (AADT)[3] |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spur 5 | Alvin Freeway | 1988 | 6 | 54,240 | |
| Interstate Highway 10 | Baytown-East Freeway | 1953 | 8 | 225,640 | |
| U.S. Highway 90 | Crosby Freeway | 1991 | 6 | 31,090 | |
| Spur 330 | Decker Drive | 2001 | 6 | 32,890 | |
| U.S. Highway 59 | Eastex Freeway | 1953 | 10(1) | 211,860 | |
| Farm to Market Road 1764 | Emmett F. Lowry Expressway | 4 | 48,050 | ||
| Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road | 2004 | 4 | |||
| State Highway 146 | Fred Hartman Bridge | 1996 | 8 | 74,670 | |
| State Highway 99 | Grand Parkway | 1994 | 4 | 36,200 | |
| Interstate Highway 45 | Gulf Freeway | 1948 | 8(1) | 269,570 | |
| Hardy Toll Road | 1987 | 6 | 59,220 | ||
| Interstate Highway 10 | Katy Freeway | 1956 | 10(2) | 238,520 | |
| State Highway 225 | La Porte Freeway | 1966 | 8 | 152,780 | |
| Interstate Highway 610 | South, West, North and East Loop | 1952 | 10 | 293,460 | |
| Interstate Highway 45 | North Freeway | 1959 | 10(1) | 291,470 | |
| U.S. Highway 290 | Northwest Freeway | 1975 | 8(1) | 262,970 | |
| Beltway 8 | Sam Houston Tollway | 1982 | 8 | 202,900 | |
| State Highway 288 | South Freeway | 1980 | 8 | 178,490 | |
| U.S. Highway 59 | Southwest Freeway | 1961 | 12(1) | 379,550 | |
| Spur 527 | The Downtown Split[4] | 1961 | 6* | 93,410 | |
| State Highway 249 | Tomball Parkway | 1990 | 8 | 119,780 | |
| Westpark Tollway/Fort Bend Westpark Tollway | 2004 | 4 |
[edit] Under construction
- Parts of Section I-2 of the Grand Parkway are under construction.
[edit] Future
- Fairmont/Red Bluff Freeway - planned from State Highway 146 southeast of Houston to Beltway 8. Only frontage roads have been built.
- NASA Road 1 Bypass - short bypass to the south of NASA Road 1 in Webster.
- Sections A, B, C, E, F1, F2, G, H, and I-1 of Grand Parkway are in various stages of the planning process.
- Alvin Freeway - Spur 5 south-southeast of downtown. This freeway is planned to be built from its present southern terminus at Old Spanish Trail to south of Beltway 8.
- Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road is planned to eventually be extended from its northern terminus at U.S. 90A to the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.
- Hardy Toll Road is planned to be extended from its southern terminus at the North Loop to Downtown Houston.
[edit] Limited-access highways
[edit] Present
- Allen Parkway - Between I-45 and Shepherd Drive, a distance of 2.3 miles (3.7 km), Allen Parkway is a limited access parkway.
- Grand Parkway - Parts of section D (south of the Westpark Tollway) are not up to full freeway standards but will be in the future.
- Memorial Drive - From Houston Street to just west of Shepherd Drive, a distance of 2.3 miles (3.7 km), Memorial Drive is a limited-access parkway with exits at Heights Blvd./Waugh Drive and Shepherd Drive.
- South Main Street - U.S. Highway 90 Alternate south-southwest of downtown
[edit] Under construction
- South Main Street (U.S. Highway 90 Alternate) is currently under construction between the current southern end of controlled access mainlanes near South Post Oak Road to near the Sam Houston Tollway.
[edit] Future
- Future construction is planned on U.S. Highway 90 Alternate to add freeway lanes between the Sam Houston Tollway and the city of Sugar Land.
[edit] References
- ^ HoustonFreeways.com Erik Slotboom, 2003. Last accessed December 23, 2006.
- ^ Mapquest Satellite images. Last accessed December 23, 2006.
- ^ [1]. Houston Galveston Area Council Traffic Counts. 2001. Last accessed December 23, 2006.
- ^ A Guide to Traffic and Reconstruction of Spur 527. southwestcorridor.com Last accessed January 2, 2007.
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