Texas State Highway 71
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East end | SH 35 at Blessing | |||
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Country | United States | |||
State | Texas | |||
Counties | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba, Llano, Burnet, Blanco, Travis, Bastrop, Fayette, Colorado, Wharton, Matagorda | |||
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State Highway 71 (SH 71) is a Texas state highway that runs 253 miles (407 km). The northern terminus is at
History
SH 71 was originally designated on August 21, 1923 from
Austin
Through
Major displacements of commercial properties were required to build the Austin expansions. Most of the freeway had a 150-foot (46 m) wide right-of-way which was expanded to over 300 feet (91 m), and the western segment, which opened in 1998, was built on an 80-foot (24 m) right-of-way. The section at the western end required many more business displacements. The new freeway features depressed sections, elevated sections, and partial stack interchanges.
Business routes
SH 71 has two business routes.
La Grange business loop
Business State Highway 71-E (Bus. SH 71-E) is a
Columbus business loop
Business State Highway 71-F (Bus. SH 71-F) is a business loop that runs through Columbus. The city was bypassed on February 16, 1982, and the original route was designated as Loop 329. The route received the Bus. SH 71-F designation on June 21, 1990.[6][7]
Major intersections
County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes | |||
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| FM 2309 north – Brady | |||||||
| FM 1851 – Voca | |||||||
| FM 1851 south – Voca | |||||||
| FM 3293 west | |||||||
RM 386 south – Mason | ||||||||
San Saba |
No major junctions | |||||||
RM 501 east – Cherokee | ||||||||
Llano | | SH 29 west – Mason | West end of SH 29 overlap | |||||
Llano | SH 16 north / SH 29 east – San Saba, Burnet | East end of SH 29 overlap; west end of SH 16 overlap | ||||||
RM 152 west – Castell | ||||||||
SH 16 south – Fredericksburg | East end of SH 16 overlap | |||||||
| FM 2333 east – Sunrise Beach Village | |||||||
| RM 962 east – Round Mountain | |||||||
| RM 2831 north | |||||||
| RM 2147 east – Horseshoe Bay, Cottonwood Shores | |||||||
San Antonio | Cloverleaf Interchange | |||||||
Blanco |
No major junctions | |||||||
RM 2322 north (Pace Bend Road) – Briarcliff , Pace Bend State Park | ||||||||
RM 3238 west (Hamilton Pool Road) | ||||||||
RM 620 north – Lakeway, Round Rock | ||||||||
RM 2244 east – West Lake Hills | ||||||||
US 290 west – Johnson City, Fredericksburg | West end of US 290 overlap | |||||||
See US 290 | ||||||||
US 290 east – Waco, San Antonio | East end of US 290 overlap | |||||||
Woodward Street / Todd Lane / Burleson Road | ||||||||
Montopolis Drive | ||||||||
Riverside Drive | ||||||||
East end of freeway | ||||||||
Spirit of Texas Drive – Austin-Bergstrom International Airport | Interchange; no direct westbound exit and eastbound entrance (signed at Presidential Boulevard / Cardinal Loop) | |||||||
Cardinal Loop / Presidential Boulevard – Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Del Valle | Interchange; West end of 71 Toll Lanes | |||||||
FM 973 – Manor, Mustang Ridge | Interchange; no direct westbound exit and eastbound entrance (signed at SH 130) | |||||||
SH 45 Toll north / SH 130 Toll north – Waco | Interchange; eastbound exit and westbound entrance; SH 130 exit 449 | |||||||
SH 45 Toll / SH 130 Toll – Bastrop, San Antonio | SH 130 exit 449; East end of 71 Toll Lanes | |||||||
| Ross Road / Kellam Road | Interchange under construction[8] | ||||||
FM 1209 – Webberville | ||||||||
| SH 21 west – San Marcos | Interchange; west end of SH 21 overlap | ||||||
| West end of expressway | |||||||
Gonzalez | ||||||||
Loop 150 east / Hasler Boulevard / Childers Drive – Bastrop, Bastrop State Park | East end of expressway | |||||||
SH 21 east / SH 95 north – Bryan, Elgin | Interchange; east end of SH 21 overlap; west end of SH 95 overlap | |||||||
Loop 150 west / Tahitian Drive – Bastrop, Bastrop State Park | Interchange | |||||||
| Interchange; east end of SH 95 overlap | |||||||
Smithville | Colorado Street (County Road 319) | Interchange | ||||||
Loop 230 west – Smithville | Interchange | |||||||
Loop 543 east – West Point | ||||||||
| FM 154 – West Point, Muldoon | |||||||
| Loop 543 west – West Point | |||||||
| Loop 220 east – Plum | |||||||
| Loop 220 west – Plum | |||||||
| Bus. SH 71 east – La Grange | West end of freeway | ||||||
La Grange | US 77 / Von Minden Street – Giddings, Schulenburg | Access to St Mark's Medical Center | ||||||
SH 159 – Bellville, La Grange | ||||||||
| Bus. SH 71 west – La Grange | East end of freeway | ||||||
| FM 955 north – Fayetteville | |||||||
FM 2503 north | ||||||||
FM 1890 west (Shaws Bend Road) | ||||||||
| Bus. SH 71 east – Columbus | Interchange | ||||||
Columbus | Round House Road | Interchange | ||||||
US 90 – Weimar, Sealy | Interchange; westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||||||
| I-10 west – San Antonio | Interchange; west end of I-10 overlap, exit 693 eastbound, 695 westbound; no eastbound entrance | ||||||
Columbus | I-10 east / Bus. SH 71 west – Houston, Columbus | East end of I-10 overlap, exit 696 | ||||||
Altair | US 90 Alt. – Hallettsville, Eagle Lake | |||||||
| FM 1693 west | |||||||
FM 950 east – Matthews | ||||||||
| FM 333 west | |||||||
Wharton | | FM 1160 south – Louise | ||||||
| FM 961 east – Wharton | |||||||
| FM 2546 – Jones Creek | |||||||
| FM 2546 north – Jones Creek | |||||||
| FM 1300 west | |||||||
FM 2765 (Loop Street) | ||||||||
FM 653 south (Wharton Street) | ||||||||
FM 1163 south (2nd Street) | ||||||||
FM 653 north (Wharton Street) | ||||||||
I-69/US 59 exit 62; U.S. 59 is the future Interstate 69 | ||||||||
| FM 2674 south | |||||||
FM 441 north – Hillje | ||||||||
FM 1468 east – Markham | ||||||||
| FM 456 east | |||||||
Blessing | SH 35 – Bay City, Palacios | |||||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- ^ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway No. 71". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation.
- ^ "Minutes of the Seventy-Third and First Adjourned Meeting of the State Highway Commission" (PDF).
- ^ "Minutes of the Seventy-Sixth and Special Meeting of the State Highway Commission" (PDF).
- ^ "Minutes of the Two Hundred Fifty-fourth Regular Meeting of the State Highway Commission" (PDF).
- ^ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "Business State Highway No. 71-E". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation.
- ^ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "State Highway Loop No. 329". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation.
- ^ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "Business State Highway No. 71-F". Highway Designation Files. Texas Department of Transportation.
- ^ "SH 71 East Corridor". Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 7, 2023.