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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 ...
[3] [4] In 1921, Congress amended the Federal Aid to Roads Act of 1916 to require the states to take control of road design, construction, and maintenance of state highways by 1925. As a result, on January 1, 1924, the Texas Highway Department took full control of maintaining the state highways from the counties within which they resided.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) originally expected to be completed in 2009 was also not completed as of 2012, and TxDOT estimates of a 2015 opening have passed. The proposed road has been affected by a national recession, a construction slowdown, and a severe shortage of state highway funds [ 2 ] and may remain in the planning ...
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.
was cancelled when work was completed; now Caesar Avenue SH 283: 11.78: 18.96 US 380 near Old Glory: US 277 / SH 6 in Stamford: 1939: current Formerly part of SH 16; this section renumbered in 1939, and now the original portion is part of SH 6 SH 284 — — — — 1939: 1951 Former SH 74A, became a portion of US 183: SH 285
State Highway Loop 88 (Loop 88) is a proposed state highway in Lubbock County, Texas, that will form a bypass around the city of Lubbock. The Loop 88 designation has been approved by local governments such as Lubbock, Texas while the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) builds the project, currently known as the Lubbock Outer Route. [3]
Formerly operated by the Texas Turnpike Authority; now part of I-30 and operated by TxDOT as a freeway Dallas North Tollway: 33 [42] 53 I-35E in Dallas: US 380 in Frisco: 1968: current Operated by NTTA; extension to FM 121 proposed Fort Bend Tollway: 10.1: 16.3 Sienna Parkway in Missouri City: US 90 Alt in Houston: 1988: current
Originally a part of FM 149, the highway was given the designation of SH 249 in 1988. [1] Previously, SH 249 was designated on June 22, 1937 [22] from then-SH 73 (now Interstate 10) near San Felipe north to the Brazos River. The route was redesignated on May 9, 1940, as Spur 99. [23]