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The 1952 City of Houston planning document recommended a second loop designated the Outer Belt. Harris County took control of the project in 1960. Efforts to construct the Beltway 8 crossing started in the mid-1960s, culminating in an effort vetoed by Governor John Connally on June 18, 1967.
East of Houston, the tollway crosses the Houston Ship Channel on the Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge, a toll bridge; this forms a gap in Beltway 8 between I-10 (Baytown-East Freeway) and State Highway 225 (SH 225, La Porte Freeway). Beltway 8 is the intermediate beltway in the Houston area.
The first phase which commenced in 2015 is the construction of new overpasses for the west and eastbound Beltway 8 service lanes over a railroad right of way which parallels Mykawa Road (since the 1997 opening of the southeast segment of the Sam Houston Tollway, one lane in both directions on the tollway's bridge over Mykawa Road was co-shared ...
The other four are the Sidney Sherman Bridge, popularly known as the (Interstate) 610 or Ship Channel bridge; the Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge, formerly the Jesse Jones Toll Bridge and popularly known as the Beltway 8 Bridge; the Fred Hartman Bridge connecting La Porte, Texas and Baytown, Texas; and the Lynchburg Ferry. The tunnel is also ...
Operated by TxDOT; [a] a 6.7 mi (10.8 km) extension to Center Street in Arlington is under construction [50] I-35E Express: 19.6: 31.5 Loop 12 Express in Dallas: FM 2181 in Lake Dallas: 2017: current Operated by LBJ Infrastructure Group [b] from Loop 12 Express to I-635; operated by TxDOT from I-635 to FM 2181 [c] I-35W Express: 10.1: 16.3 I-30 ...
Future plans are to extend the toll road south an additional four miles (6 km) into downtown Houston (the northernmost mile marker is 25, though the current road is only 21.6 miles (34.8 km) long). In November 2007 the city of Houston gave approval for street closures required to construct the connections to the downtown freeway loop.
Red Bluff Freeway - planned from State Highway 146 southeast of Houston to Beltway 8.Only frontage roads have been built. SH 99 Toll - Sections A, B, and C of the Grand Parkway are in various stages of the planning process.
Harbor Bridge Project under construction: 506.4 m (1,661 ft) ... Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge Replacement ... Baltimore Beltway