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San
Antonio Area Freeway System
US
Highway 90 West (Cleto Rodriguez
Freeway) |
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updated January 1, 2015 |
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This page covers
US Highway 90 west of downtown San Antonio from I-35 to just outside of
Loop 1604. US 90 continues east concurrent (multiplexed) with I-10 East.
Length: 12
miles
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On this page
Overview
This is the main freeway
serving San Antonio's Westside. It provides access to Port San Antonio (the
former Kelly AFB), Lackland AFB, Our Lady of the Lake University, St. Mary's
University, the San Antonio Produce Market, and Nelson Wolff Municipal
Stadium. Residential areas abut the freeway along most of the corridor between
I-35 and SH 151. Near 151 are several large manufacturing plants,
warehouses, and the ballpark. The freeway runs through mostly undeveloped area
between Leon Creek and Old Highway 90. An older commercial area lines the
access roads between there and Loop 410. Outside of Loop 410, most of the
frontage is currently undeveloped although there has been some recent
residential and commercial development.
Roadway details
| SCHEMATIC |
Click here for a schematic of
US 90 West. |
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| LANES |
- 10
lanes from I-35 to SH 151 with a short 8 lane section through
the General McMullen Dr. interchange
- 6 lanes
from SH 151 to Loop 410
- 4 lanes
from Loop 410 to Loop 1604
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| ACCESS ROADS |
- Short sections
of access roads west of Nogalitos
- Short section
of westbound access road at Cupples
- Continuous
access roads from SW 36th to Loop 1604
- Two-way access
roads west of Hunt/Ray Ellison
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| EXITS |
Click here for a list of US 90 West
exits.
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| SPEED LIMITS |
- 65 mph
from I-35 to Loop 410
- 70 mph
from Loop 410 to Loop 1604
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| SPECIAL FEATURES & NOTES |
- TransGuide coverage along entire route
- VIA
Metropolitan Transit Kel-Lac Transit Center/Park & Ride
just west of Military
- Abandoned former VIA Kel-Lac Park & Ride still
located within Old Hwy 90 interchange
- Interchanges
at both SH 151 and Spur 371 only facilitate traffic headed to/from
downtown
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| TRAFFIC |
Moderate to heavy inside of Loop 410. Light outside of 410.
Traffic volumes throughout the corridor have increased over the past decade especially west of Loop 410 and east of SH 151.
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| AVERAGE ANNUAL DAILY
TRAFFIC |
| LOCATION |
1990 |
2003 |
2008 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
'03-'13
% CHG |
| S. Zarzamora St. | 90,000 | 122,000 | 158,000 | 153,000 | 152,000 | 152,268 | +24.81% |
| Cupples Rd. | 78,000 | 112,000 | 145,000 | 140,000 | 137,000 | 143,198 | +27.86% |
| Old Hwy 90 | 46,000 | 67,000 | 70,000 | 66,000 | 73,000 | 72,223 | +7.80% |
| E of Loop 410 | 56,000 | 72,000 | 76,000 | 79,000 | 84,000 | 81,354 | +12.99% |
| Hunt Ln. | 22,000 | 40,000 | 52,000 | 60,000 | 61,000 | 61,517 | +53.79% |
| W of Loop 1604 | 13,500 | 28,000 | 34,000 | 39,000 | 38,000 | 38,395 | +37.13% |
Media
gallery
Click here for photos and video of this
freeway.
Construction projects
No current projects in
this corridor.
Future plans
Kelly AFB was closed in
mid-2001 and the city has converted the former aircraft maintenance depot into
a major civilian industrial complex called Port San Antonio. Interchange
improvements to US 90 at SW 36th were made in conjunction with the conversion.
Additional interchange improvements at Military and General Hudnell have been
proposed. A new parkway (Kelly Parkway)
connecting US 90 to I-35 South via Spur 371 (Gen. Hudnell) is also
planned. The first phase of a multi-level interchange at Loop 410
and additional improvements between Loops 410 and 1604 are planned for
the short-term (see here
for more information on this project.) A pedestrian overpass is
planned between Loop 410 and Military. There is also
an unfunded item in the MPO's 25-year plan to upgrade US 90 between
Loop 1604
and SH 211 to a full freeway.
History
Authorized by Minute
Order 18793 (November 24, 1941). Named for Cleto Rodriguez of San Antonio, the
first Hispanic to be awarded the Medal of Honor. The route was originally
named the "West Expressway."
This freeway was built in
the mid '60s to replace the old US 90 through San Antonio's Westside. The
section from I-35 to Cupples was complete by 1967 and remainder of the route to
Loop 410 was complete by the following year. An interchange for SH 151 was
built around 1988. With the addition of SH 151, a project to widen US 90 from
six to 10 lanes between I-35 and SH 151 was undertaken and completed in 1991.
A continuous access road was added to the EB side near Leon Creek in 1996.
TransGuide coverage was added to the section from I-35 to Zarzamora in 1995 and
along the remainder of the route in June 2001. In 2007, VIA moved their KelLac
Park & Ride facility from within the Old Highway 90 interchange to its
current location northwest of the Military/US 90 intersection. In 2009, the
Old Highway 90 overpass was demolished and rebuilt and the westbound access
road through that location was realigned.
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