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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a governmental agency and its purpose is to "provide safe, effective, and efficient movement of people and goods" throughout the state. [1] Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with maintenance of the state's immense highway system, the agency is also responsible for ...
According to TxDOT, costs have exceeded $176 million, and the projected total cost for the completion of the route as a divided four-lane highway is still unknown. This proposed extension of Loop 49, the East Texas Hourglass ( ETHG ), planned as a divided four-lane highway between SH 110 and US 59 near Marshall , includes two additional spur ...
The Texas Legislature created the Texas Highway Department in 1916 to administer federal highway construction and maintenance. In 1975, its responsibilities increased when the agency merged with the Texas Mass Transportation Commission, [3] resulting in the formation of the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation. [4] [5] [6]
Loop 1604 as of 2016. Loop 1604 is the outer highway loop encircling San Antonio, Texas, spanning approximately 95.6 miles (153.9 km).Originally constructed as a two-lane highway, the northern segment of the route, from US 90 in western San Antonio to Kitty Hawk Road in northeastern Bexar County, has been upgraded to a four-lane freeway.
From there, it followed present-day FM 610 and SH 70 to Blackwell. It then continued down present-day U.S. Highway 277 into San Angelo and Sonora and Del Rio. On February 7, 1919, SH 4 was rerouted to end at Uvalde, and the old route from Sonora to Del Rio was cancelled. [3] On April 22, 1919, the branch to Del Rio was restored. [4]
Farm to Market Road 4 (FM 4) is a farm to market road in Texas, United States, maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), that runs between the cities of Grandview and Jacksboro. The route was designated in March 1942.
The shortest in the state is I-110 at 0.9 miles (1.4 km). 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 ( I-45 ) between Galveston and Houston was opened in 1951, eight years before it was designated I-45.
State highways in Texas are owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Texas, through the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).. The Texas State Highway system was established in 1917 to create a structured network of roads that would enhance connectivity and support economic development across the state.