Houston Tx~Birth of the Largest Freeway (I-10 Katy Freeway)~

Houston FreewayZ Presents Katy Freeway-Birth of the Largest Freeway-East Bound Edition, this video is a History Timeline of the Katy Freeway. I-10 (Katy Freeway) was developed in 1962 in the inner loop of I-610, then in mid 1960's the Katy Freeway was expanded toward Katy Tx. In the early 80's Beltway 8 was built, everything ran smoothly until late 80's to 90's heavy congestion began, reaching up to 200,000 vehicles per day by year 2000. Houston Tx was expanding west toward Katy Tx, neighboorhoods and businesses were sprawling, the little 6 mainlane freeway was congested from Monday thru Friday including weekends. Speed Limit was 60mph but achieved in a few sections of Katy Freeway, mainly past Kirkwood Rd, during the 90's to early 2000 was several schematics of Katy Freeway expanding but, businesses and neighborhoods vote against the schematics. Finally after intense negociations, public hearings and townhall meetings-in 2000 TXDOT came in with a schematic that worked for the public along the I-10 Katy Freeway Corridor. By 2002 the Railroad paralleling the I-10 Freeway was removed, in 2004 the schematic had a neighborhood to be demolished including businesses on the Northside of Katy Freeway. In 2005 High Voltage Towers were put under ground, and right-of-way went south of a Cemetary (not Shown), a Iqloo factory on the Northside of Beltway 8 had to be demolished due to the flyover ramps would be where the factory existed. That means the I-610 and Beltway 8 would not line up with the New Reconstructed Freeway so, both would have to be demolished and rebuilt to suit the new freeway. November 28, 2008 was dedicated which labeled Katy Freeway as the widest freeways in the country-USA! Enjoy =]

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