Loop (Texarkana)

Infobox TX State Highway
type=Loop
route=151
name=Texarkana Loop
shields=
length_mi=16
length_km=26
formed=
dir1=CCW
dir2=CW
from= east of Texarkana
junction=
to= west of Texarkana
previous_type=Loop
previous_route=150
next_type=Loop
next_route=153
browse=ar browse2
previous_type=State
previous_route=244
next_type=State
next_route=246

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The Loop is a beltway around Texarkana, a twin city in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Texas, running about 16 miles (26 km). Consisting of Highway 245 - sometimes called Loop 245 - in Arkansas, and Loop 151 and a section of U.S. Highway 59 in Texas, it forms a three-quarter loop around the east, south and west sides of the city. (Interstate 30 completes the circle on the north side.) Except for a portion of Highway 245 where it meets I-30 at a diamond interchange east of Texarkana, the Loop is built to freeway standards.

The south side is bisected by State Line Avenue, which runs north-south along the state line. The whole half in Arkansas is Highway 245; US 59 intersects the Loop near the southwest corner, and so only the south side in Texas is Loop 151. Old US 59 into Texarkana - Lake Drive - is now State Highway 93.

Route description

North of the junction with Highway 549 and U.S. Highway 71, Highway 245 is part of the North-South Corridor, a planned extension of Interstate 49 north to Kansas City. (This extension will also include Highway 549.) The Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department submitted this piece, as well as its continuation west to the state line, as Interstate 130 (I-130) in fall 2000. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials denied the part from US 71 west to Texas, as "the state of Texas has not submitted a companion application for a suitable terminus in Texas", but the piece from US 71 north to I-30 was approved on December 8, 2000 as Future I-130. Once it is upgraded to Interstate standards and added to the Interstate Highway System by the Federal Highway Administration, it will be signed as I-130. [American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, [http://cms.transportation.org/sites/route/docs/2000%20USRN_Cmte.pdf Report of the Special Committee on Route Numbering to the Standing Committee on Highways] , Saturday, December 9, 2000] [Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department, [http://www.arkansashighways.com/News/News2001/NR01-002.htm Interstate 130 to be designated in Arkansas] , January 2001]

Loop 151 connects Highway 245 to US 59. Along with the south leg of Highway 245, it is the newest part of the Loop.

:"Note: A former, unrelated state highway also bearing the Loop 151 designation in Denison was redesignated as State Highway 75-A in 1946, and is now part of State Highway 91."

US 59 forms the final leg of the loop, from Lake Drive to Interstate 30. This section, known officially as Jarvis Parkway, also crosses West 7th Street (U.S. Highway 67) and New Boston Road (U.S. Highway 82).

Exit list

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

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