Transportation in Sugar Land, Texas

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Transportation in

Metro's
service area).

Major thoroughfares

Airport

Sugar Land Regional Airport (formerly Sugar Land Municipal Airport) was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. Sugar Land Regional is the fourth largest airport within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. The airport handles approximately 350 aircraft operations per day.

The airport today mostly serves the area's general aviation (GA) aircraft. A new 20,000 square foot (1,900 m2) Terminal and a 60-acre (243,000 m2) GA complex, are under construction, with the terminal completion expected in Spring 2006. Sugar Land Regional briefly handled commercial passenger service during the mid-1990s via a now-defunct Texas carrier known as Conquest Airlines. For scheduled commercial service, Sugar Landers rely on Houston's two commercial airports, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), 45 miles northeast, and William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), 30 miles east.

The city of

Houston maintains a park
that occupies 750 acres (3 km2) of land directly north of the Sugar Land Regional Airport and Sugar Land homeowners have built houses directly south of the airport, both factors that block airport expansion.