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!Mile<ref>[http://txdot.lib.utexas.edu/ Texas County Highway Maps]</ref>
!Destinations
!Destinations
!Tolls
!Tolls
!Notes
!Notes
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|Wallisville Road
|Wallisville Road
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|Woodforest Boulevard
|Woodforest Boulevard
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|Market Street
|Market Street
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
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|-
|83.13<ref name="TXDOT Beltway 8"/>
|[[Image:I-10.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 10 (Texas)|Interstate Highway 10]] - [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]; [[Beaumont (TX)|Beaumont]]
|[[Image:I-10.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 10 (Texas)|Interstate Highway 10]] - [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]; [[Beaumont (TX)|Beaumont]]
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|-
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|Jacinto Port Boulevard
|Jacinto Port Boulevard
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|
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|
|[[Jesse Jones Memorial Bridge|Ship Channel Bridge]] barrier toll
|[[Jesse Jones Memorial Bridge|Ship Channel Bridge]] barrier toll
|$2.00
|$2.00
|-
|-
|0.0
|[[Image:Texas 225.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 225 (Texas)|State Highway 225]] - [[Deer Park (TX)|Deer Park]]; [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]
|[[Image:Texas 225.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 225 (Texas)|State Highway 225]] - [[Deer Park (TX)|Deer Park]]; [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]
|-
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|Red Bluff Road; Pasadena Boulevard
|Red Bluff Road; Pasadena Boulevard
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Spencer Highway; Vista Road; Pine Street
|Spencer Highway; Vista Road; Pine Street
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Fairmont Parkway; Genoa-Red Bluff Road; Vista Road
|Fairmont Parkway; Genoa-Red Bluff Road; Vista Road
|$1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Sam Houston East barrier toll
|Sam Houston East barrier toll
|$1.25
|$1.25
|-
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|Genoa-Red Bluff Road
|Genoa-Red Bluff Road
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|
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|7.5
|[[Image:Texas 3.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 3 (Texas)|State Highway 3]] - Old Galveston Road
|[[Image:Texas 3.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 3 (Texas)|State Highway 3]] - Old Galveston Road
|-
|-
|8.6
|[[Image:I-45.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 45]] - [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]; [[Galveston (TX)|Galveston]]
|[[Image:I-45.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 45]] - [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]; [[Galveston (TX)|Galveston]]
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|-
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|Sabo Road
|Sabo Road
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|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
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|-
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|Beamer Road; Blackhawk Road; Sabo Road; Hughes Road
|Beamer Road; Blackhawk Road; Sabo Road; Hughes Road
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|-
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|Blackhawk Road
|Blackhawk Road
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
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|Monroe Road
|Monroe Road
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|13.6
|[[Image:Texas 35.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 35 (Texas)|State Highway 35]] - Telephone Road; [[Hobby Airport]]
|[[Image:Texas 35.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 35 (Texas)|State Highway 35]] - Telephone Road; [[Hobby Airport]]
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Mykawa Road
|Mykawa Road
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
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|South Wayside Drive
|South Wayside Drive
|$1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Sam Houston Southeast barrier toll
|Sam Houston Southeast barrier toll
|$1.25
|$1.25
|-
|-
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|Martin Luther King Boulevard
|Martin Luther King Boulevard
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|
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
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|-
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|[[Image:Texas FM 865.svg|20px]] [[Farm to Market Road 865]] - Cullen Boulevard; Fellows Road
|[[Image:Texas FM 865.svg|20px]] [[Farm to Market Road 865]] - Cullen Boulevard; Fellows Road
|$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
|$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|
|[[Image:Texas 288.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 288 (Texas)|State Highway 288]]; Fellows Road
|[[Image:Texas 288.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 288 (Texas)|State Highway 288]]; Fellows Road
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|Kirby Drive
|Kirby Drive
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
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|Sam Houston Southwest barrier toll
|Sam Houston Southwest barrier toll
|$1.25
|$1.25
|-
|-
|
|[[Image:Texas FM 521.svg|20px]] [[Farm to Market Road 521]] - Almeda Road
|[[Image:Texas FM 521.svg|20px]] [[Farm to Market Road 521]] - Almeda Road
|$1.00 CCW exit and CW entrance
|$1.00 CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
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|South Post Oak Road
|South Post Oak Road
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|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Chimney Rock Road; South Post Oak Road
|Chimney Rock Road; South Post Oak Road
|$0.75 CCW exit and CW entrance
|$0.75 CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|
|Hillcroft Avenue; Chimney Rock Road; Rockwell Boulevard; [[Fort Bend Toll Road]]
|Hillcroft Avenue; Chimney Rock Road; Rockwell Boulevard; [[Fort Bend Toll Road]]
|$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
|$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
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|-
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|Fondren Road
|Fondren Road
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|CW exit and CCW entrane
|CW exit and CCW entrane
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|-
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|[[Image:Alt plate.svg|20px]]<br>[[Image:US 90.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 90 Alternate (Texas)|U.S. Highway 90 Alternate]] - South Main Street; Fondren Road
|[[Image:Alt plate.svg|20px]]<br>[[Image:US 90.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 90 Alternate (Texas)|U.S. Highway 90 Alternate]] - South Main Street; Fondren Road
|$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
|$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
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|South Gessner Road
|South Gessner Road
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|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
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|-
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|West Airport Boulevard; South Gessner Road
|West Airport Boulevard; South Gessner Road
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|West Bellfort Boulevard
|West Bellfort Boulevard
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|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|31.1
|[[Image:US 59.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 59 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 59]] - [[Victoria (TX)|Victoria]]; [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]
|[[Image:US 59.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 59 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 59]] - [[Victoria (TX)|Victoria]]; [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]
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|-
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|[[Image:Texas Beltway 8.svg|20px]] Beltway 8 Frontage Road
|[[Image:Texas Beltway 8.svg|20px]] Beltway 8 Frontage Road
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|CCW exit only
|CCW exit only
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|-
|32.2
|Bissonnet Street
|Bissonnet Street
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
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|-
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|Beechnut Street
|Beechnut Street
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|Bellaire Boulevard; Westpark Drive ([[Westpark Tollway]])
|Bellaire Boulevard; Westpark Drive ([[Westpark Tollway]])
|0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
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|-
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|Westpark Drive; Harwin Drive ([[Westpark Tollway]])
|Westpark Drive; Harwin Drive ([[Westpark Tollway]])
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|36.3
|[[Image:Texas FM 1093.svg|20px]] Westheimer Road; Richmond Avenue ([[Farm to Market Road 1093]])
|[[Image:Texas FM 1093.svg|20px]] Westheimer Road; Richmond Avenue ([[Farm to Market Road 1093]])
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
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|-
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|Briar Forest Drive
|Briar Forest Drive
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Sam Houston South barrier toll
|Sam Houston South barrier toll
|$1.25
|$1.25
|-
|-
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|Deerwood Drive
|Deerwood Drive
|$0.75 CCW exit
|$0.75 CCW exit
|CCW exit only
|CCW exit only
|-
|-
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|Boheme Drive
|Boheme Drive
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|CW exit only
|CW exit only
|-
|-
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|Memorial Drive - [[Town & Country Mall]]
|Memorial Drive - [[Town & Country Mall]]
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|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|39.6
|[[Image:I-10.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 10 (Texas)|Interstate Highway 10]] - Downtown; [[San Antonio (TX)|San Antonio]]
|[[Image:I-10.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 10 (Texas)|Interstate Highway 10]] - Downtown; [[San Antonio (TX)|San Antonio]]
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|-
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|Westview Drive - [[Town & Country Mall]]
|Westview Drive - [[Town & Country Mall]]
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|
|Hammerly Boulevard; Kempwood Drive
|Hammerly Boulevard; Kempwood Drive
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Clay Road; Tanner Road; Kempwood Drive
|Clay Road; Tanner Road; Kempwood Drive
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
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|Sam Houston Central barrier toll
|Sam Houston Central barrier toll
|$1.25
|$1.25
|-
|-
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|West Little York Road
|West Little York Road
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|
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|46.0
|[[Image:US 290.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Highway 290 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 290]] - Downtown; [[Austin (TX)|Austin]]
|[[Image:US 290.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Highway 290 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 290]] - Downtown; [[Austin (TX)|Austin]]
|-
|-
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|Philippine Street
|Philippine Street
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|CW entrance only
|CW entrance only
|-
|-
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|West Road; Philippine Street
|West Road; Philippine Street
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
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|-
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|Fallbrook Drive; Windfern Road
|Fallbrook Drive; Windfern Road
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|
|West Gessner Road; Windfern Road; Fallbrook Drive
|West Gessner Road; Windfern Road; Fallbrook Drive
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|52.3
|[[Image:Texas 249.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 249 (Texas)|State Highway 249]] - Bammel North Houston Road; Antoine Drive
|[[Image:Texas 249.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 249 (Texas)|State Highway 249]] - Bammel North Houston Road; Antoine Drive
|$1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
|$1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|52.3
|[[Image:Texas 249.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 249 (Texas)|State Highway 249]] north
|[[Image:Texas 249.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 249 (Texas)|State Highway 249]] north
|
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|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|52.3
|[[Image:Texas 249.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 249 (Texas)|State Highway 249]] south - Hollister Road; Fairbanks North Houston Road
|[[Image:Texas 249.svg|20px]] [[State Highway 249 (Texas)|State Highway 249]] south - Hollister Road; Fairbanks North Houston Road
|
|
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|
|Antoine Drive; Bammel North Houston Road
|Antoine Drive; Bammel North Houston Road
|
|
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|
|Sam Houston North barrier toll
|Sam Houston North barrier toll
|$1.25
|$1.25
|-
|-
|
|[[VA Houston National Cemetery]]
|[[VA Houston National Cemetery]]
|
|
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|CW exit and CCW entrance
|-
|-
|
|[[Image:Texas Beltway 8.svg|20px]] Beltway 8 Frontage Road - Ella Boulevard
|[[Image:Texas Beltway 8.svg|20px]] Beltway 8 Frontage Road - Ella Boulevard
|
|
|Beltway 8 joins CW and leaves CCW
|Beltway 8 joins CW and leaves CCW
|-
|-
|58.5
|[[Image:I-45.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 45]] - Downtown; [[Dallas (TX)|Dallas]]
|[[Image:I-45.svg|20px]] [[Interstate Highway 45]] - Downtown; [[Dallas (TX)|Dallas]]
|-
|-
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|Greenspoint Drive; Imperial Valley Drive
|Greenspoint Drive; Imperial Valley Drive
|-
|-
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|Imperial Valley Drive
|Imperial Valley Drive
|
|
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|CCW exit and CW entrance
|-
|-
|
|[[Hardy Toll Road]]
|[[Hardy Toll Road]]
|-
|-
|
|[[Hardy Toll Road]] north
|[[Hardy Toll Road]] north
|
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|CW exit only
|CW exit only
|-
|-
|
|Aldine-Westfield Road
|Aldine-Westfield Road
|
|
|no CW entrance
|no CW entrance
|-
|-
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|JFK Boulevard; Vickery Drive
|JFK Boulevard; Vickery Drive
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|-
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|[[Bush Intercontinental Airport]]
|[[Bush Intercontinental Airport]]
|
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|CW exit and entrance
|CW exit and entrance
|-
|-
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|Lee Road; Vickery Drive
|Lee Road; Vickery Drive
|-
|-
|65.6
|[[Image:US 59.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 59 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 59]] - [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]; [[Cleveland (TX)|Cleveland]]
|[[Image:US 59.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 59 (Texas)|U.S. Highway 59]] - [[Houston (TX)|Houston]]; [[Cleveland (TX)|Cleveland]]
|}
|}

Revision as of 11:55, 30 April 2006

Northbound at Interstate Highway 10 on the west side of Houston

State Highway Beltway 8 or BW8, also Sam Houston Parkway, is a Texas state highway within Harris County of the Houston area. The Sam Houston Tollway, which follows much of the same route, is run under the auspices of the Harris County Toll Road Authority and is not part of the state highway system.

Beltway 8—defined as an orbital motorway—is the second of three highway loops within the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area, with Interstate 610 being the inner loop and Texas State Highway 99 (Grand Parkway) being the outer loop. The Grand Parkway is still under construction. Beltway 8 and Sam Houston Parkway are the names given to the frontage roads and a small section of freeway in northern Houston between Interstate 45 and US 59, while the Sam Houston Tollway is the name for the tollway that is located in the highway's median. Access to the Sam Houston Tollway is provided via Beltway 8 by means of entrance and exit ramps. As of 2005, Beltway 8 is complete while the Sam Houston Tollway is about 85 percent complete. Portions of the West Belt, as sections of the Beltway are called by their compass names, are in various stages of expansion due to high traffic volumes. The remaining portion is a small section of tollway between US 90 and US 59 northeast of Houston, which should be completed between 2007 and 2009.

The tollway's construction was piecemealed from the opening of the West Belt in the mid-1970s to the completion of the South Belt in the mid-1990s. The Jesse Jones Memorial Toll Bridge, as the Beltway's crossing of the Houston Ship Channel was originally called, was constructed by the Texas Turnpike Authority (TTA) and was opened in the early-1980s

Free sections

The longest free section of main lanes is on the north side of Houston, stretching from Ella Boulevard east to the current end of the freeway east of U.S. Highway 59 (Eastex Freeway). This is maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation east of roughly the Hardy Toll Road interchange.[1] It includes the interchanges with US 59, the Hardy Toll Road, and Interstate Highway 45 (North Freeway).

Three shorter free sections also exist:

These all exist in order to allow federal funding to have been used to build the freeway-to-freeway interchanges at the Baytown-East, Gulf and Southwest Freeways.[citation needed]

The frontage roads are general continuous, and allow for slower free travel along the tolled segments. Only one break exists in the frontage roads; there are also several locations where one must turn to stay on them:

Exit list

Clockwise (CW) reads down and counterclockwise (CCW) reads up.

Mile[3] Destinations Tolls Notes
Wallisville Road
Woodforest Boulevard
Market Street CCW exit and CW entrance
83.13[2] Interstate Highway 10 - Houston; Beaumont
Jacinto Port Boulevard CW exit and CCW entrance
Ship Channel Bridge barrier toll $2.00
0.0 State Highway 225 - Deer Park; Houston
Red Bluff Road; Pasadena Boulevard $0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
Spencer Highway; Vista Road; Pine Street $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
Fairmont Parkway; Genoa-Red Bluff Road; Vista Road $1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
Sam Houston East barrier toll $1.25
Genoa-Red Bluff Road CCW exit and CW entrance
7.5 State Highway 3 - Old Galveston Road
8.6 Interstate Highway 45 - Houston; Galveston
Sabo Road CW exit and CCW entrance
Beamer Road; Blackhawk Road; Sabo Road; Hughes Road
Blackhawk Road CCW exit and CW entrance
Monroe Road $0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
13.6 State Highway 35 - Telephone Road; Hobby Airport $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
Mykawa Road CCW exit and CW entrance
South Wayside Drive $1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance
Sam Houston Southeast barrier toll $1.25
Martin Luther King Boulevard CW exit and CCW entrance
Farm to Market Road 865 - Cullen Boulevard; Fellows Road $0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
State Highway 288; Fellows Road
Kirby Drive CCW exit and CW entrance
Sam Houston Southwest barrier toll $1.25
Farm to Market Road 521 - Almeda Road $1.00 CCW exit and CW entrance
South Post Oak Road CW exit and CCW entrance
Chimney Rock Road; South Post Oak Road $0.75 CCW exit and CW entrance
Hillcroft Avenue; Chimney Rock Road; Rockwell Boulevard; Fort Bend Toll Road $0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
Fondren Road CW exit and CCW entrane

U.S. Highway 90 Alternate - South Main Street; Fondren Road 		$0.50 CCW exit and CW entrance
South Gessner Road CW exit and CCW entrance
West Airport Boulevard; South Gessner Road
West Bellfort Boulevard CW exit and CCW entrance
31.1 U.S. Highway 59 - Victoria; Houston
Beltway 8 Frontage Road CCW exit only
32.2 Bissonnet Street CCW exit and CW entrance
Beechnut Street
Bellaire Boulevard; Westpark Drive (Westpark Tollway) 0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
Westpark Drive; Harwin Drive (Westpark Tollway) CCW exit and CW entrance
36.3 Westheimer Road; Richmond Avenue (Farm to Market Road 1093) $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
Briar Forest Drive $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
Sam Houston South barrier toll $1.25
Deerwood Drive $0.75 CCW exit CCW exit only
Boheme Drive CW exit only
Memorial Drive - Town & Country Mall CW exit and CCW entrance
39.6 Interstate Highway 10 - Downtown; San Antonio
Westview Drive - Town & Country Mall CCW exit and CW entrance
Hammerly Boulevard; Kempwood Drive $0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
Clay Road; Tanner Road; Kempwood Drive $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
Sam Houston Central barrier toll $1.25
West Little York Road CW exit and CCW entrance
46.0 U.S. Highway 290 - Downtown; Austin
Philippine Street CW entrance only
West Road; Philippine Street $0.50 CW exit and CCW entrance
Fallbrook Drive; Windfern Road $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance CW exit and CCW entrance
West Gessner Road; Windfern Road; Fallbrook Drive $0.75 CW exit and CCW entrance
52.3 State Highway 249 - Bammel North Houston Road; Antoine Drive $1.00 CW exit and CCW entrance CW exit and CCW entrance
52.3 State Highway 249 north CCW exit and CW entrance
52.3 State Highway 249 south - Hollister Road; Fairbanks North Houston Road CCW exit and CW entrance
Antoine Drive; Bammel North Houston Road CCW exit and CW entrance
Sam Houston North barrier toll $1.25
VA Houston National Cemetery CW exit and CCW entrance
Beltway 8 Frontage Road - Ella Boulevard Beltway 8 joins CW and leaves CCW
58.5 Interstate Highway 45 - Downtown; Dallas
Greenspoint Drive; Imperial Valley Drive
Imperial Valley Drive CCW exit and CW entrance
Hardy Toll Road
Hardy Toll Road north CW exit only
Aldine-Westfield Road no CW entrance
JFK Boulevard; Vickery Drive
Bush Intercontinental Airport CW exit and entrance
Lee Road; Vickery Drive
65.6 U.S. Highway 59 - Houston; Cleveland

References

  1. ^ Harris County Toll Road Authority, Sam Houston & Hardy Toll Road Map
  2. ^ a b Texas Department of Transportation, Highway Designation File - State Highway Beltway 8
  3. ^ Texas County Highway Maps

External links

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