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This is looking northwest along the Gulf Freeway (I-45) towards downtown Houston. Licensing This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
2004 - Relocation to a new facility (the South Campus) on 86 acres (350,000 m 2) adjacent to the Gulf Freeway. 2006 - Groundbreaking for a North Campus in The Woodlands . 2006 - The interim worship center at the South Campus (1900 seats) reaches capacity in the late service.
The stretch of I-45 connecting Galveston with Houston is known as the Gulf Freeway. It was the first freeway built in Texas—opened in stages beginning on October 1, 1948, up to a full completion to Galveston in 1952, as part of US 75.
[citation needed] However, the highways in and near these cities included some of the first freeways in the state: the Gulf Freeway (Houston, opened to traffic on October 1, 1948) and the Central Expressway. When I-45 was built in the 1960s, its alignment bypassed many of the towns and built-up areas between Downtown Dallas and Houston. The ...
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A 19-year-old man died in front of his brother in a hit-and-run crash after the pair tried to cross a freeway in Houston, Texas on foot, police have confirmed. On Monday, Dec. 16. at approximately ...
Grand Parkway - Parts of section D (south of the Westpark Tollway) are now being brought up to full freeway standards. 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.
The construction of the Interstate Highway System in Texas actually began well before these routes were designated as Interstate Highways. A 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Gulf Freeway between Galveston and Houston was opened in 1951, eight years before it was designated I-45. It was also the first urban expressway in Texas.