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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.
The longest segment of Interstate Highway in Texas is I-10 at 878.6 miles (1,414.0 km); the shortest is I-110 at 0.9 miles (1.4 km). The construction of the Interstate Highway System in Texas began well before these routes were designated as Interstate Highways.
State Highway 73 (SH 73) is a Texas state highway that runs 42 miles (68 km) from Winnie through Port Arthur to near Orange. In September 2008, Hurricane Ike forced the closure of SH 73. Among other road debris left by the storm were two 200-ton barges. The storm surge pushed the barges inland before they came to rest on the highway. [2]
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.
The longest route in the system is the 56.6-mile-long (91.1 km) Recreational Road 255 (RE 255), while the shortest route in the system is RE 6 at 0.30 miles (0.48 km). Recreational Roads are signed with a route marker that is very similar to the sign which marks the Farm to Market Road system , with just a few differences.
Interstate 27 (I-27 [a]) is an Interstate Highway, entirely in the US state of Texas, running north from Lubbock to I-40 in Amarillo.These two cities are the only control cities on I-27; [5] other cities and towns served by I-27 include (from south to north) New Deal, Abernathy, Hale Center, Plainview, Kress, Tulia, Happy, and Canyon.
From its start point, FM 712 goes east-northeast a distance of 2.6 miles (4.2 km) to a bridge over the Brazos River. [22] There is a county park and historical marker on the east side of the bridge that commemorates Sarahville de Viesca , the short-lived capital of Robertson's Colony . [ 23 ]
In Texas, I-35 runs for just over 503 miles (810 km), [1] which does not include the 85-mile (137 km) segment of I-35W. It does include the 97-mile (156 km) segment of I-35E. Texas contains more miles of the overall length of I-35 than any other state, almost one-third of the entire length.