List of unused highways in Texas

An unused highway may reference a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed but was unused or later closed. An unused ramp can be referred to as a stub ramp, stub street, stub-out, or simply stub. The following is a list:

Texas

Houston

• Although the Crosby Freeway was planned to extend from the junction of the Baytown East Freeway (I-10) and the East Loop (I-610) to its current terminus in Crosby, the roadway originally terminated near the E. Sam Houston N. Parkway. Traffic was forced to exit, with a long strip of unused roadway extending across the parkway. There were ramp stubs for the terminus of the proposed extension at the I-10/I-610 junction ramps. In 2006, TxDOT contracted for the construction of the extension. As of December 2006, construction had begun at the ramp stubs. See 19 for an overhead view.

• Near Katy, most of the segment of the Westpark Tollway between the Katy Freeway and U.S. 59 was constructed as a mix of main lanes and frontage roads, resulting in a string of split intersections. There are highway stubs at the transitions between main lanes and frontage roads. Although the road was constructed to make it relatively easy to upgrade to a freeway, there are no current plans to do so.

• East of the University of Houston campus, the Alvin Freeway (currently signed as Spur 5) ends in a freeway stub north of University Drive, with frontage roads continuing to an intersection with Old Spanish Trail. There are frontage road stubs on the south side of The Intersection. The freeway has stubbed ramps for an interchange with Elgin St. Originally planned and funded in the 1960s, only an elevated section concurrent with the Gulf Freeway and the Spur 5 section have been completed. The remainder of the corridor is under study. See 20 for an overhead view.

• The South Freeway (SH 288) was designed to have express lanes in what is currently a grass median strip. There is a freeway stub at the northern terminus at U.S. 59, with the design appearing to direct the unbuilt express lanes to Interstate 45 and the current lanes to U.S. 59. The express lanes would end at the interchange with the South Loop, with corresponding stubs on the existing ramps and bridges. A feasibility study of the entire SH 288 corridor has concluded, with a recommendation to add two managed lanes in each direction, but there are no ACTIVE plans to develop this section of the median. The freeway also has stub ramps at Old Spanish Trail and Yellowstone Boulevard; had they been completed, the ramps would have provided separate access to both roads, where currently they are both served with a single set of ramps. Viewable at 21, and 22.

• State Highway 225 was originally planned to continue as a freeway from its current terminus just west of the Interstate 610 Loop into downtown. The roadway was to be known as the Harrisburg Freeway. Due to neighborhood opposition and lack of funding, it did not ProgresS past the planning stages and was deleted from the city's master freeway plan in 1992. When the interchange between the Loop and the La Porte freeway (SH 225 to the east of the Loop) was constructed in 1974, the freeway section of SH 225 continued a short distance inside the loop, with frontage roads and a cleared right-of-way extending to Lawndale Street, in anticipation of the extension to downtown. Viewable at 23.

• On the south side of the city, along Beltway 8, there are numerous "future" exit ramps leading to the frontage road. Some have been constructed, such as "Future Kirby Drive," but there are no traffic lights installed at the intersection. Some haven't even been constructed at all, with the Beltway's overpass somewhat serving as a U-Turn. There isn't even evidence at one exit that anything is under construction, with scrubland bordering the frontage road. View it here: 24

Irving

• At the southern end of Texas 161 at Texas 183 near DFW, there was a stub of mainline highway and ramps around the interchange. Texas 161 is now being constructed south of TX 183. 25

See also

• List of unused highways in the United States
• List of unused highways
• list of ghost towns