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The original Spur 199 was designated on December 17, 1947, from then approved-US 77 northwest of San Benito south 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to Sam Houston Boulevard and Stenger Street in San Benito. Spur 199 was cancelled on June 30, 1961, and removed from the highway system due to completion of US 83.
Spur 527 is a 0.863-mile (1.389 km) spur route in Midtown Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. The roadway is a freeway spur that feeds traffic from the Southwest Freeway (Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59) into Downtown Houston. The route is mostly unsigned, except for a sign posted on the southbound side, right after an intersection with Smith Street.
Klapper was known for one-piece spurs built using a technique that set him apart in the industry. He was one of the few craftsmen who made spurs from a single piece of steel rather than welding pieces together. [4] His dedication to traditional methods limited his production to approximately 200 spurs annually. [4]
Spur 5 is located in Houston. It begins at the intersection of Emancipation Avenue (formerly known as Dowling Street), Calhoun Street, and Jefferson Street in Houston's Third Ward . It has a brief concurrency with I-45 until that route's exit 44B, at which point it travels south as a freeway with frontage roads, passing the eastern side of the ...
Auxiliary Interstate Highways (also called three-digit Interstate Highways) are a subset of highways within the United States' Interstate Highway System.The 323 auxiliary routes generally fall into three types: spur routes, which connect to or intersect the parent route at one end; bypasses, which connect to the parent route at both ends; and beltways, which form a circle that intersects the ...
Spur 1966 was designated on February 23, 2012, as Spur 73, but to avoid confusion, it was changed to Spur 1966 on March 29, 2012. The number was chosen to honor the NCAA championship won by the 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team as the road passes the university (now known as The University of Texas at El Paso ).
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Spur 200 is located in Roma.It runs from US 83 southwest to Estrella Street and the Roma Texas Port of Entry at the Roma–Ciudad Miguel Alemán International Bridge.At a length of 0.05 miles (0.080 km), Spur 200 is the shortest spur route in Texas.