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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.
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.
Operated by FBCTRA from Sienna Parkway to Fort Bend/Harris county line; operated by HCTRA from county line to US 90 Alt: Hardy Toll Road: 21.6: 34.8 I-610 in Houston: I-45 in Spring: 1988: current Operated by HCTRA; has one spur connecting to George Bush Intercontinental Airport: International Parkway: 7.5: 12.1 SH 183 in Euless: SH 114 in ...
EZ TAG, TxTag, or TollTag required; non-toll traffic must use the "last free exit" to bypass toll gantries SH 99 Toll (Grand Parkway) in Harris, Montgomery, Liberty, and Chambers Counties 104.7 168.5 I-10 / US 90 – Katy: SH 146 – Baytown: Maximum toll: $24.64 All-electronic toll SH 130 Toll (Pickle Parkway) 86 138 I-10 – Seguin
Houston Transtar uses EZ TAG sensors, which are placed at numerous points across Greater Houston, for their Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) traffic monitoring system. By tracking the movement of individual transponder tags (EZ TAG user vehicles) over the city, the system can generate real time traffic information for use by the general ...
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 ...
The 14-mile (23 km) HCTRA section is simply named Westpark Tollway; however, the 8-mile (12 km) section of the toll road operated by the FBCTRA is named Fort Bend Westpark Tollway. There are three major interchanges in between: the Southwest Freeway ( I-69 )/( US 59 ), the West Sam Houston Tollway ( Beltway 8 ), and Grand Parkway ( State ...
In October 2019, HCTRA began to examine plans for the segment from US 90 Alternate to I-610 utilizing the original 2003 schematics. [3] However, as of October 2020, the Harris County Commissioners Court put the Fort Bend Toll Road extension to I-610 on hold.