Between Houston and Livingston, most of US 59 is a limited-access freeway but the I-69 designation temporarily ends at the Montgomery- Liberty county line. Leaving Houston, US 59 intersects Beltway 8 again on the northside of town, passing by Bush Intercontinental Airport and heads into Humble. US 59 intersects many major Texas highways in Houston, including I-10 (which goes to San Antonio and Beaumont) and I-45 (which goes to Dallas and Galveston). Between Houston and Victoria, US 59 passes through Edna, Ganado, El Campo, and Wharton.
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US 59 bypasses Victoria to the south, and becomes a divided highway, and has a series of interchanges, until it becomes a freeway south of Houston in Rosenberg and resumes the designation of I-69. A significant portion of US 59 in Texas has a 75 MPH speed limit.įrom I-37, US 59 heads northeast passing through Beeville. Between Laredo and Interstate 37, US 59 passes through many rural areas and ranching sites. The highway continues northeast, intersecting US 281 in George West, before intersecting I-37 about 55 miles north of Corpus Christi. From Freer, US 59 passes through the southeastern part of McMullen County, but does not intersect any highways. US 59 shares a short congruency with SH 44 in and around Freer. US 59 and Loop 20 continue to run together until just south of Lake Casa Blanca, where Loop 20 heads south to Mangana-Hein Road (and potentially into Mexico) and US 59 heads towards Freer traveling in a mostly northeast direction. At under 2 miles, the two highways run together concurrent with I-69W from the Mexico–US border until I-35 in Laredo, where I-69W temporarily ends. The portion of US 59 that is co-signed with Loop 20 is also named the Bob Bullock Loop. US 59 begins at the Mexico–US border with Loop 20 on the World Trade International Bridge over the Rio Grande in Laredo. Route description Laredo to Interstate 37 The highway's east–west nature was boosted in 1934 when US 96 was rerouted from Alice to Laredo. 90, did not violate the convention of even numbers for east–west routes. The US 96 designation was originally applied in 1926 from Rosenberg, Texas, near Houston, to Pharr in the Rio Grande valley. The total length of the southernmost segment of US 59 that passes through Texas and terminates at the Mexico–US border is 615 miles (990 km). Currently 75-mile-per-hour (121 km/h) speed limits are allowed on US 59 in Duval County and portions of northern Polk County. Nearly 90 percent of this route is designated to become part of I-69 in the future. In the past, both highways remained on the border past I-30 as State Line Avenue to downtown Texarkana today, only US 71 does so. US 59 ( overlapped by US 71) actually straddles the border between Texas and Arkansas north of I-30 near Texarkana, with the east side of the highway on the Arkansas side and the west side of the highway on the Texas side. The stretch of the Southwest Freeway just west of The Loop was formerly one of the busiest freeways in North America, with a peak AADT of 371,000 in 1998. To the south, which is also co-signed with I-69, it is the Southwest Freeway (from Rosenberg to Downtown Houston).
In northern Houston, US 59, co-signed with Interstate 69 (I-69), is the Eastex Freeway (from Downtown Houston to the Liberty County/ Montgomery County line). state of Texas is named the Lloyd Bentsen Highway, after Lloyd Bentsen, former U.S. This sign is located near Freer, the seat of Duval County east of Laredo.
senator from Texas, who served from 1971 to 1992. Bentsen Highway in honor of the late Democratic U.S.
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