Texas State Highway 35

Infobox TX State Highway
type=State
route=35

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length_mi=206.5Texas Department of Transportation, [http://www.dot.state.tx.us/tpp/hwy/sh/sh0035.htm] ]
length_km=332.3
formed=1961
dir1=West
dir2=East
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previous_type=Interstate
previous_route=35W
next_type=State
next_route=36
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previous_type=state
previous_route=57
route=SH 58
next_type=US
next_route=59

State Highway 35, or SH 35, is a largely north-south highway in southeastern and southern Texas between Houston, junction of I-45 on the southeast side of the city and Corpus Christi, where it terminates on I-37.

SH 35 takes a generally north-south route from Houston to Angleton, junction SH 288, and then roughly parallels the inlets of the Gulf of Mexico in a roughly northeast-southwest course through a low, flat coastal plain. To the south and west of Palacios it gives vistas of several inlets of the Gulf of Mexico, becoming one of the more scenic routes of southern Texas.

At Gregory it meets and joins U.S. Highway 181, which coincide to their mutual terminus over a causeway and bridge over Corpus Christi Bay, meeting I-37 and SH 286 at a freeway interchange.

Only in its southernmost part near Corpus Christi is State Highway 35 a freeway, although significant stretches of it are divided highway. It is not to be confused with Interstate 35, which it never meets. It is not the shortest or quickest route between Houston and Corpus Christi, which consists largely of US 59 and US 77.

Future of SH 35

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An overlap of Highway 35 with the Gulf Freeway was also constructed in the 1980s. This portion extends from Spur 5 to Dowling Street, a distance of about 1.6 miles. This section contains three elevated lanes in each direction (briefly four southbound lanes near the southern terminus). This overlap section is 22 lanes wide, including mainlanes, feeder roads, and a reversible HOV lane. [ [http://www.houstonfreeways.com/ebook/CH4_spokes_pp184-271_72.pdf Chapter 4, The Spokes] , p. 163 "Houston Freeways, Erik Slotboom."]

Once built, the Alvin Freeway is planned to follow a corridor near "Mykawa Road" from the terminus to Beltway 8 before returning to its normal undivided state.

History

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Counties and junctions

ee also

*Copano Bay Fishing Pier

References