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The Hardy Toll Road is a controlled-access toll road in the Greater Houston area of the U.S. state of Texas, maintained by the Harris County Toll Road Authority. The route runs from Interstate 610 near central Houston to Interstate 45 just south of the Harris–Montgomery county line. The road generally parallels Interstate 45.
HCTRA came into being in September 1983 after Harris County voters approved a $900 million bond referendum by a 7–3 margin to release up to $900 million in bonds to create two toll roads – the Hardy Toll Road and the Sam Houston Tollway – to improve the regional mobility and reduce traffic congestion in the Greater Houston area, an area known for rapid population growth.
The first time a toll road was mentioned was in a 1979 survey of several routes by the Texas Turnpike Authority, leading to the construction of the Hardy Toll Road in Northern Harris County by HCTRA. A heavy rail line along the corridor was floated in the 1980s, but failed to win voter approval, along with a monorail that was ended with Mayor ...
The main lanes elsewhere are the Sam Houston Tollway, a toll road owned and operated by the Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA). East of Houston, the tollway crosses the Houston Ship Channel on the Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge , a toll bridge ; this forms a gap in Beltway 8 between I-10 (Baytown-East Freeway) and State Highway 225 (SH ...
Pages in category "County roads in Harris County, Texas" ... Harris County Toll Road Authority; F. Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road; H. Hardy Toll Road; S. Sam Houston ...
Jan. 1, 1978: This aerial photo of the newly shuttered toll plaza with downtown Fort Worth in the background was shot on the day the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike became a free highway and was ...
Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road: 10.1 16.3 Sienna Parkway US 90 Alt. east (South Main Street) $3.51 (with valid tag) $4.66 (without valid tag) EZ TAG, TxTag, or TollTag required Hardy Toll Road: 21.6 34.8 I-610: I-45: $3.00 ($2.70 with EZ TAG discount) Hardy Toll Road Connector to George Bush Intercontinental Airport: 4 6.4 Hardy Toll Road
Maintained by Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority and Harris County Toll Road Authority: Length: 11.4 mi [1] (18.3 km) Existed: 1988 [2] –present: Major junctions; South end: Sienna Ranch Road in Missouri City: SH 6 in Missouri City Beltway 8 / Sam Houston Tollway in Houston: North end: US 90 Alt. in Houston: Location; Country: United States ...