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Blue Highways Revisited: Written and photographed by Edgar I. Ailor III, and Edgar I. Ailor IV, Blue Highways Revisited is a 30-year follow-up to Heat-Moon's original book. The Ailors re-travel the routes of Heat-Moon and seek out the sites he visited, as well as the people he interacted with along the way.
Blue Highways (1982) is a chronicle of a three-month-long road trip that Least Heat-Moon took throughout the United States in 1978 after he had lost his teaching job and been separated from his first wife. He tells how he traveled 13,000 miles, as much as possible on secondary roads, and tried to avoid cities.
Jourdanton-Poteet, replaced a proposed road from Jourdanton to US 81 south of San Antonio; extended to San Antonio in 1945; section from IH 35 to Loop 353 returned to San Antonio in 1964 SH 347: 1942 ← US 69 (part) now Port Arthur-Beaumont SH 348: 1943 1990 → FM 1765 (part) Texas City-La Marque; redesignated because it was an FM route SH 349
The Texas State Highway system was established in 1917 to create a structured network of roads that would enhance connectivity and support economic development across the state. The initial system included 22 state highways, many of which followed pre-existing trails and trade routes.
Highway names; Interstates: Interstate X (I-X) Interstate Highway X (IH-X) US Highways: U.S. Highway X (US X) State: State Highway X (SH X) Loops: Loop X: Spurs: Spur X: Recreational: Recreational Road X (RE X) Farm or Ranch to Market Roads: Farm to Market Road X (FM X) Ranch to Market Road X (RM X) Park Roads: Park Road X (PR X) System links ...
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Texas experienced a decrease in the number of motor vehicle traffic fatalities in 2022 compared with 2021. The 2022 death toll of 4,481 was a decrease of 0.36% from the 4,497 deaths recorded in 2021.
The Interstate Highways have replaced several portions of the U.S. Highway network in Texas and as a result, they have been removed from the State Highway System. Several examples include US 81 from Fort Worth to Laredo in favor of I-35 , US 75 from Dallas to Galveston in favor of I-45 , and US 80 from Dallas to El Paso in favor of I-10 and I-20 .