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This route was rerouted so that its south end was at Belton later. This route was cancelled on June 15, 1935. [ 2 ] The road was restored on October 22, 1935, but as a lateral road, which the section south of McGregor became SH 317 on May 23, 1939, and the remainder became FM 56 on May 19, 1942 (this section became part of SH 317 in 1947). [ 3 ]
SH 70 has one business route, Business SH 70-G in Sweetwater, which is a former alignment of the state highway through that city. The route was designated in 1990, when SH 70 was rerouted along the south and east side of the city to use the I-20 freeway. The business route is also concurrent with BL I-20 through downtown Sweetwater. [26] [27]
The construction of the Interstate Highway System in Texas actually began well before these routes were designated as Interstate Highways. A 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Gulf Freeway between Galveston and Houston was opened in 1951, eight years before it was designated I-45. It was also the first urban expressway in Texas.
State Highway 99 (SH 99), also known as the Grand Parkway, is a beltway in the U.S. state of Texas.Its first section opened on August 31, 1994. When the route is completed, it will be the longest beltway in the U.S., the world's seventh-longest ring road, and the third (outer) loop of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area, with Interstate 610 being the first (inner) loop ...
Northbound at I-10 on the west side of Houston in 2007. Beltway 8 (BW8), the Sam Houston Parkway, along with the Sam Houston Tollway, is an 88-mile (142 km) beltway around the city of Houston, Texas, United States, lying entirely within Harris County. [2]
The La Porte-Houston highway was dedicated in 1929, following a route along most of the current alignment. [2] The highway was designated on December 21, 1935, with the western terminus of the route at US 75. [3] [1] The first section of freeway along the route was authorized in 1945 and opened in 1952.
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The route traveled southward through Fresno, past the Houston Southwest Airport, before reaching Bonney. This entire portion of the route from US 90 Alt. southward was transferred to Farm to Market Road 521 and Spur 300 on December 14, 1981, as SH 288 was rerouted onto the new freeway from US 90 Alt. to Spur 300. [ 7 ]