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Map: Road closures, driving conditions in Texas Tips for driving in freezing weather. Be prepared: Clear ice and snow off the car before you start driving. Snow left on top of the car can slide ...
Hurricane Beryl landing on Texas coast has caused several road closures and delays in the Houston area and beyond. More than 1 million customers have lost power within hours of Beryl's landfall ...
Number Length (mi) Length (km) Southern or western terminus Northern or eastern terminus Formed Removed Notes SH 1: 837.42: 1,347.70 State line at El Paso, Texas: State line at Texarkana, Texas: 1917: 1939 Replaced by Interstate 10, Interstate 20, and Interstate 30 a small portion inside the city of Dallas remained until 1952.
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.
U.S. Route 259 (US 259) is a north–south spur of U.S. Route 59 that runs for 250 miles (400 km) through rural areas of northeastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.The highway's southern terminus is near Nacogdoches, Texas, at an interchange with its parent route, US 59.
State Highway 3 (SH 3) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that runs from Interstate 45 in Houston near William P. Hobby Airport to State Highway 146, 9.9 miles (15.9 km) northwest of Galveston. For most of its length, SH 3 parallels I-45 and runs alongside the former Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad lines.
Most of the section between Beltway 8 and SH 6 had been laid by September 2006 and work was completed in October 2008. The Texas–Louisiana state line as seen from I-10. Tolls on the managed lanes vary by vehicle occupancy, axle count and time of day. High occupancy vehicles may travel for free at certain times. [21]
In September 1983, county voters approved a referendum by a 7–3 margin to release up to $900 million in bonds to create two toll roads, the Hardy Toll Road (basically a reliever for I-45 between downtown Houston and Montgomery County) and the Sam Houston Tollway, which would be the main lanes of the Beltway. Shortly after the referendum, the ...