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San
Antonio Area Freeway System
US Highway 90 West (Cleto Rodriguez Freeway) |
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| This page last updated May 20, 2019 |
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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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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 and parkland
between Leon Creek and Old Highway 90/Enrique Barrera Pkwy. An older
commercial
area lines the
access roads between there and Loop 410. Outside of Loop 410, much 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 through the Loop 410 interchange
- 6 lanes from Loop 410
to Loop
1604 (although
technically one lane is marked as an auxiliary lane)
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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
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| EXITS |
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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 |
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Moderate to heavy inside of Loop 410. Moderate outside of 410.
Traffic volumes throughout the corridor have
increased notably over the past decade west of Loop 410 and east of
SH 151.
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| AVERAGE
ANNUAL DAILY TRAFFIC |
| LOCATION |
1990 |
2006 |
2010 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
'07-'17
% CHG |
| E of Zarzamora St. | 90,000 | 148,000 | 135,000 | 149,744 | 154,208 | 169,413 | +14.47% |
| Cupples Rd. | 78,000 | 138,000 | 124,000 | 140,895 | 145,908 | 153,450 | +11.20% |
| E of Old Hwy 90 | 46,000 | 79,000 | 49,000 | 69,084 | 75,882 | 81,311 | +2.93% |
| W of Military Dr. | 56,000 | 91,000 | 71,000 | 80,684 | 87,824 | 92,913 | +2.10% |
| W of Hunt Ln. | 22,000 | 63,000 | 50,000 | 69,873 | 77,676 | 81,073 | +28.69% |
| W of Loop 1604 | 13,500 | 44,000 | 35,000 | 49,698 | 56,411 | 61,100 | +38.86% |
Media
gallery
Click
here
for photos and video of this
freeway.
Construction projects
- At Loop 410: Click here for details
on this project.
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 and inland port called Port San
Antonio. To support the new facility, interchange improvements at General
Hudnell
Dr. have been
proposed in conjunction with a new parkway (Kelly
Parkway)
connecting US 90 to I-35 South via Spur 371 (General Hundell Dr.)
The
first phase of a multi-level interchange at Loop
410 is currently under construction (see here
for more information on this project.)
Plans
have been released to upgrade US 90 from Loop 1604 to SH 211 to a full
freeway and make additional operational improvements between Old Hwy 90
and Loop 1604, as well as to complete the new interchange at Loop 1604. Click
here for
more information on this project.
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 that ran on surface streets
through San Antonio's
West Side. The
section from Loop 410 to Old Hwy 90 was completed in 1965. The
segment from I-35 to Cupples was complete in 1967 and remainder of the
route 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 eastbound 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 Kel-Lac
Park & Ride facility from within the Old Highway 90 interchange
to its
current location northwest of the Military Dr./US 90
intersection. In 2009, the
Old Highway 90 overpass was demolished and rebuilt and the westbound
access
road through that location was realigned. The freeway was widened to add a long auxiliary lane in each direction between Loop 410 and Loop 1604 in 2018.
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