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Memorial Drive - From Houston Street to just west of Shepherd Drive, a distance of 2.3 miles (3.7 km), Memorial Drive is a limited-access parkway with exits at Heights Blvd./Waugh Drive and Shepherd Drive. U.S. Highway 90 Alternate — South Main Street — south-southwest of downtown from I-610 to near the Southwest Freeway.
As of June 2016, two portions of State Highway 99 have been completed: a 14.5-mile segment completed in April 2008 that runs from Interstate 10 in Mont Belvieu to Business State Highway 146 in Baytown, east of Houston; and a 71-mile segment completed between August 1994 and March 2016 that runs from Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land ...
The construction of the Interstate Highway System in Texas began well before these routes were designated as Interstate Highways. A 50-mile (80 km) stretch of I-45 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 highways in Texas are owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Texas, through the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).. 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.
Interstate 610 (I-610 [a]) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that forms a 37.972-mile-long (61.110 km) loop around the inner city sector of the city of Houston, Texas.I-610, colloquially known as The Loop, Loop 610, The Inner Loop, or just 610, traditionally marks the border between the inner city of Houston ("inside the Loop") and its surrounding areas.
This overlap ends in Seguin, and continues where the two highways continually cross each other en route to Houston. US 90 once again duplexes with I-10 east of Columbus briefly separating near Brookshire and continue overlapping from Katy all the way to Houston. At I-610 east of Houston, US 90 becomes independently known as the Crosby Freeway.
The inner beltway, I-610, lies mostly within Houston (except for an approximate two-mile (3.2 km) stretch that runs through the City of Bellaire), and the outer beltway, SH 99 (Grand Parkway), is currently partially complete. Like other toll roads in the Houston area, the speed limit is 65 mph (105 km/h).
I-610 in Houston 1927 [36] current Originally US 80 in West Texas to San Antonio; rerouted north and extended to Houston in 1935; rerouted north away from Bastrop and Paige (original route now SH 71 and SH 21); shortened to near Segovia in 1991 due to completion of I-10 (old route now I-10 Business, SH 290, RM 1312, RM 3130, and RM 1674)