List of Houston highways

This is a list of highways in the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area.

[edit] Freeways

Designation	Common Name	Year of First Freeway Section^[1]	Maximum width: mainlanes (HOV)^[2]	Maximum Traffic Count, 2001 (AADT)^[3]
Spur 5	Alvin Freeway	1988	6	54,240
Interstate Highway 10	Baytown-East Freeway	1953	8	225,640
U.S. Highway 90	Crosby Freeway	1991	6	31,090
Spur 330	Decker Drive	2001	6	32,890
U.S. Highway 59	Eastex Freeway	1953	10(1)	211,860
Farm to Market Road 1764	Emmett F. Lowry Expressway		4	48,050
	Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road	2004	4
State Highway 146	Fred Hartman Bridge	1996	8	74,670
State Highway 99	Grand Parkway	1994	4	36,200
Interstate Highway 45	Gulf Freeway	1948	8(1)	269,570
	Hardy Toll Road	1987	6	59,220
Interstate Highway 10	Katy Freeway	1956	10(2)	238,520
State Highway 225	La Porte Freeway	1966	8	152,780
Interstate Highway 610	South, West, North and East Loop	1952	10	293,460
Interstate Highway 45	North Freeway	1959	10(1)	291,470
U.S. Highway 290	Northwest Freeway	1975	8(1)	262,970
Beltway 8	Sam Houston Tollway	1982	8	202,900
State Highway 288	South Freeway	1980	8	178,490
U.S. Highway 59	Southwest Freeway	1961	12(1)	379,550
Spur 527	The Downtown Split^[4]	1961	6*	93,410
State Highway 249	Tomball Parkway	1990	8	119,780
	Westpark Tollway/Fort Bend Westpark Tollway	2004	4

Fairmont/Red Bluff Freeway - planned from State Highway 146 southeast of Houston to Beltway 8. Only frontage roads have been built.
NASA Road 1 Bypass - short bypass to the south of NASA Road 1 in Webster.
Sections A, B, C, E, F1, F2, G, H, and I-1 of Grand Parkway are in various stages of the planning process.
Alvin Freeway - Spur 5 south-southeast of downtown. This freeway is planned to be built from its present southern terminus at Old Spanish Trail to south of Beltway 8.
Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road is planned to eventually be extended from its northern terminus at U.S. 90A to the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.
Hardy Toll Road is planned to be extended from its southern terminus at the North Loop to Downtown Houston.

Allen Parkway - Between I-45 and Shepherd Drive, a distance of 2.3 miles (3.7 km), Allen Parkway is a limited access parkway.
Grand Parkway - Parts of section D (south of the Westpark Tollway) are not up to full freeway standards but will be in the future.
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.
South Main Street - U.S. Highway 90 Alternate south-southwest of downtown

South Main Street (U.S. Highway 90 Alternate) is currently under construction between the current southern end of controlled access mainlanes near South Post Oak Road to near the Sam Houston Tollway.

Future construction is planned on U.S. Highway 90 Alternate to add freeway lanes between the Sam Houston Tollway and the city of Sugar Land.

^ HoustonFreeways.com Erik Slotboom, 2003. Last accessed December 23, 2006.
^ Mapquest Satellite images. Last accessed December 23, 2006.
^ [1]. Houston Galveston Area Council Traffic Counts. 2001. Last accessed December 23, 2006.
^ A Guide to Traffic and Reconstruction of Spur 527. southwestcorridor.com Last accessed January 2, 2007.

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