Farm to Market Road 1960 (FM 1960) is a state highway (or farm-to-market road) in the U.S. state of Texas. Its western terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 6 in northwestern Harris County and travels generally to the east, ending at State Highway 321 in Dayton in western Liberty County. FM 1960 has long been an artery around Houston, though it has been shortened and re-routed over the years. Once consisting of most of the current State Highway 6 in West Houston as well as its current northern route, it still traverses 26 ZIP codes north of the Houston city limits.
In 1995, FM 1960 was divided into two sections - the more rural part east of FM-2100 remaining with the Farm to Market designation and the one closer to the city west of FM-2100 was given the new Urban Road designation. This is mainly a Texas Department of Transportation convention, as all of the signage on the complete road retains its FM roots. In 2011, a large segment of FM 1960 was alternatively designated as Cypress Creek Parkway from State Highway 249 to Aldine-Westfield in an effort to improve the image of the roadway. Landscaped medians with designated turnlanes replaced the broad open center median originally in place.
FM 1960 is also one of the very few FM roads with a business segment, running through the middle of Humble, Texas.
Video Farm to Market Road 1960
History
Historic western termini
- U.S. Highway 290 near Satsuma (1951-1954)
- U.S. Highway 90 (1954-1961)
- Farm to Market Road 1093 (1960-1962)
- U.S. Highway 59 near Sugar Land (1962-1968)
- U.S. Highway 290 near Satsuma (1968 - present)
Historic eastern termini
a road intersection at Bammel (1951-1952) 6.6 Miles east of U.S. Highway 59 (1952-1956)
- SH-321 (1956 - present) (this extension replaced the section of FM 1008) from Huffman to SH-321
Maps Farm to Market Road 1960
Major intersections
Humble business loop
Business Farm to Market Road 1960-A or Bus. FM 1960-A is an east-west business route of FM 1960. It is 4.1 miles (6.6 km) long and is one of the only three Business Farm to Market Roads in Texas. The road begins in Houston northeast of George Bush Intercontinental Airport and continues through central Humble where it intersects I-69/US 59 then reconnects to FM 1960 east of Humble. The route is known as Humble Westfield Rd. west of I-69/US 59 and First St. east of I-69/US 59.
History
The route follows a previous alignment of FM 1960 through Humble before June 21, 1978 when FM 1960 was redirected over its present location with the former alignment being then designated State Highway Loop 184. It retained the state loop designation until the current business route was established on June 21, 1990.
THe number was originally used from State Highway Spur 184, which was designated on March 18, 1947, from FM 94 (later FM 2042, now FM 3468) in Childress to Childress Army Air Field. This was cancelled on September 5, 1973 and became part of FM 164.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Harris County.
External links
- Precinct 4, Harris County authority administering most of FM 1960
- Snyder, Mike. "National panel suggests a new path for region / Urban experts call for local leaders to use transportation to guide growth." Houston Chronicle. Thursday July 10, 2008. B1 MetFront.
- Jackson, Kim. "Medians divide FM 1960 community." Houston Chronicle. September 7, 2009.
- "Green Medians." Houston Northwest Chamber of Commerce
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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