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List of Houston highways

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ6573607 ↗
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This is a list of highways in the Houston–The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area.

Freeways

Present

Under construction

Future

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.

Spur 5 - south-southeast of downtown. The mainlanes planned to be built from its present terminus near University Drive (adjacent to the University of Houston) to south of Beltway 8.

Fort Bend Tollway - The Fort Bend Tollway is planned to eventually be extended from its northern terminus at US 90A to the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.

Hardy Toll Road - The Hardy Toll Road has a proposal to be extended from its southern terminus at the North Loop to Downtown Houston.

Fort Bend Westpark Tollway - The Fort Bend section of the Westpark Tollway, known as the Fort Bend Westpark Tollway, will eventually be extended west to the growing suburb of Fulshear. It will then turn north and end at IH-10 around Pederson Road.

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