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The Rio Grande border crossing to Boquillas del Carmen was closed in 2002. On January 7, 2011, the U.S. National Park Service announced plans to reopen the crossing. [4] After multiple delays, the unmanned border station was finally opened on April 11, 2013. [5] [6] [7]
Interstate 35 (I-35 [a]) is a major north–south Interstate Highway that runs from Laredo, Texas near the Mexican border to Duluth, Minnesota.In Texas, the highway begins in Laredo and runs north to the Red River north of Gainesville, where it crosses into Oklahoma.
Planning is ongoing for a proposed extension of I-69 southward from its original terminus in Indiana through Texas to the United States–Mexico border. [6] If complete as planned, I-69 will extend about 650 miles (1,050 km) across Texas, from the Louisiana state line in the Texarkana – Shreveport area to South Texas. [ 7 ]
The Red River Bridge War of 1931 was a boundary conflict between Oklahoma and Texas over an existing toll bridge and a new free bridge crossing the Red River. A joint project to build a free bridge between Durant, Oklahoma and Denison, Texas turned into a major dispute when the Governor of Texas blocked traffic from entering his state on the ...
US 281 has two signed segments near its southern terminus in the Rio Grande Valley, both of which are signed west–east.The eastern segment, considered mainline US 281 by TxDOT, begins in Brownsville at an intersection with Business US 77 and SH 48 about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Mexico border, and travels west through several communities along the border to Pharr.
US 62 splits from US 82 and joins with State Highway 114 (SH 114) for approximately 10 miles (16 km) along the campus of Texas Tech University's southern border. On the east side of Lubbock, US 82 joins back into US 62/SH 114 and then continues east passes through Lorenzo , then leaves off the concurrency and forms a spur around Ralls , locally ...
Longer bridges can reduce the width of both shoulders to 4 feet (1.2 m). Existing bridges can remain part of the Interstate system if they have at least 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) lanes with 3.5-foot (1.1 m) shoulder on the left and a 10-foot (3.0 m) shoulder on the right, except that longer bridges can have 3.5 feet (1.1 m) shoulders on both sides.
From the bridge, traffic can exit to Riverfront Boulevard (formerly Industrial Boulevard [2]). An incomplete interchange with I-35E (Stemmons Freeway) follows, before the freeway serves as the dividing line between Downtown and Uptown. There are many exits for the next mile, most of which contain multiple ramps to serve different streets.