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The Sidney Sherman Bridge is a strutted girder bridge in Houston, Texas. It spans the Houston Ship Channel (Buffalo Bayou) and carries the East Loop segment of Interstate 610 on the east side of the city. It is more popularly known as the 610 Bridge or Ship Channel Bridge.
Loop 84 is located in Gruver. The 0.7-mile-long (1.1 km) route connects SH 15 and SH 136. Loop 84 was designated on September 26, 1945, as a redesignation of Spur 84 when it was reassigned as a loop off FM 289 (now SH 15). On September 14, 1951, a 0.3-mile (0.5 km) section was transferred to FM 278 (now SH 136).
Sidney Sherman Bridge in Houston, Texas, crossing the Houston Ship Channel, is named in his honor. This Texian General Sidney Sherman (and not Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman) was the namesake of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado engine the General Sherman, the first railroad locomotive in Texas
The branch of SH 2, which US 75 followed between Houston and Galveston, eventually became part of SH 6, [citation needed] and these numbers were dropped in the 1939 renumbering. Prior to the coming of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, the only improvements to US 75 in Texas beyond building a two-lane paved roadway were in the ...
U.S. Route 84 (US 84) is a U.S. highway that runs from Pagosa Springs, CO to Midway, GA. In Texas , the highway enters the state from New Mexico at Farwell , near the Panhandle region . Major cities along the highway include Lubbock , Abilene , Waco and Palestine .
Business U.S. Highway 84-J (Bus. US 84-J) is a business route of US 84 in Roscoe, Texas that is 2.4 miles (3.9 km) long. [8] It starts at US 84 outside of Roscoe and starts heading towards the center of town. Near the center of town, it starts running concurrently with Farm to Market Road 608, and in the center of town, they intersect Business ...
The Washburn Tunnel is a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Galena Park and Pasadena, two suburbs of Houston, Texas. Completed in 1950, it travels north-south underneath the Houston Ship Channel. It was named after Harris County, Texas Auditor Harry L. Washburn. It is the largest and first toll-free vehicular tunnel in the ...