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] |
Maximum Traffic Count, 2006 (AADT)[4] |
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Spur 5 | Alvin Freeway | 1988 | 6 | 54,240 | 39,000 | |
I-10 (Interstate Highway 10) | Baytown-East Freeway | 1953 | 8 | 225,640 | 189,000 | |
US 90 (U.S. Highway 90) | Crosby Freeway | 1991 | 6 | 31,090 | 31,000 | |
Spur 330 | Decker Drive | 2001 | 6 | 32,890 | 42,000 | |
US 59 (U.S. Highway 59) | Eastex Freeway | 1953 | 10(1) | 211,860 | 225,000 | |
FM 1764 (Farm to Market Road 1764) | Emmett F. Lowry Expressway | 4 | 48,050 | 43,000 | ||
Fort Bend Toll Road | Fort Bend Toll Road/Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road | 2004 | 4 | |||
SH 146 State Highway 146 | Fred Hartman Bridge | 1996 | 8 | 74,670 | 71,000 | |
SH 99 State Highway 99 | Grand Parkway | 1994 | 4 | 36,200 | 42,000 | |
I-45 Interstate Highway 45 | Gulf Freeway | 1948 | 8(1) | 269,570 | 266,000 | |
Hardy Toll Road | Hardy Toll Road | 1987 | 6 | 59,220 | ||
I-10 Interstate Highway 10 | Katy Freeway | 1956 | 10(2) | 238,520 | 246,000 | |
SH 225 State Highway 225 | La Porte Freeway | 1966 | 8 | 152,780 | 129,000 | |
I-610 Interstate Highway 610 | South, West, North and East Loop | 1952 | 10 | 293,460 | 288,000 | |
I-45 Interstate Highway 45 | North Freeway | 1959 | 10(1) | 291,470 | 310,000 | |
US 290 U.S. Highway 290 | Northwest Freeway | 1975 | 8(1) | 262,970 | 243,000 | |
Beltway 8 Sam Houston Tollway | Beltway 8/Sam Houston Tollway | 1982 | 8 | 202,900 | ||
SH 288 State Highway 288 | South Freeway | 1980 | 8 | 178,490 | 185,000 | |
US 59 U.S. Highway 59 | Southwest Freeway | 1961 | 12(1) | 379,550 | 333,000 | |
Spur 527 | The Downtown Split[5] | 1961 | 6* | 93,410 | 67,000 | |
SH 249 State Highway 249 | Tomball Parkway | 1990 | 8 | 119,780 | 151,000 | |
Westpark Tollway | Westpark Tollway/Fort Bend Westpark Tollway | 2004 | 4 |
[edit] Under construction
- SH 99 - 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 1 - NASA Road 1 Bypass - short bypass to the south of NASA Road 1 in Webster.
- SH 99 - Sections A, B, C, E, F1, F2, G, H, and I-1 of Grand Parkway are in various stages of the planning process.
- Spur 5 - Alvin Freeway - 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 Toll Road - The Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road is planned to eventually be extended from its northern terminus at US 90A to the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.
- Hardy Toll Road - The Hardy Toll Road is planned to be extended from its southern terminus at the North Loop to Downtown Houston.
- US 90 - U.S. Highway 90 will eventually be expanded from its terminus at Beltway 8 down to the IH-10 Baytown East Freeway/IH-610 East Loop Interchange.
- Fort Bend Westpark Tollway - The Fort Bend section of the Westpark Tollway will eventually be extended west to the growing suburb of Fulshear. It will then turn north and end at IH-10 around Pederson Road.[citation needed]
[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.
- U.S. Highway 90 Alternate — South Main Street — south-southwest of downtown from I-610 to near the Sam Houston Tollway.
[edit] Under construction
- U.S. Highway 90 Alternate is currently under construction to add freeway lanes between the Sam Houston Tollway and the city of Sugar Land.
[edit] Future
- I-69 - (Interstate 69) will eventually go through Houston on the same route as US 59. US 59 will then be renamed through Houston.[citation needed]
[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.
- ^ [2]. Texas Department of Transportation. 2006. Last accessed March 25, 2008.
- ^ A Guide to Traffic and Reconstruction of Spur 527. southwestcorridor.com Last accessed January 2, 2007.
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