The answer depends on whether you’re talking about each city’s first expressway or first downtown expressway.
I’m trying to find out whether the San Antonio expressway preceded the Houston downtown expressway. I recall one of your columns documenting that Fredericksburg Road to Santa Rosa Street was the first completed in San Antonio . Do you have the date of its completion? Was this completion prior to Houston ’s first? I grew up on 906 N. Main Ave.
Fredericksburg Highway became part of I-10 West Another section, from Culebra to Comal Street opened Nov. 28, 1949, with much more fanfare. Dignitaries at all levels of government attended the dedication on the Colorado Street overpass for speeches, high school band performances and a parade of antique cars. The expressway was officially opened to traffic when John M. Bennett Jr.
Reader grew up watching highway construction “Like I-10, it opened in multiple phases,” Purcell said. “The first, from Guadalupe Street south to Pruitt Avenue, opened in 1952. The section from Martin north to Broadway is adjacent to downtown and opened in 1954, while the elevated section between those two — the so-called ‘Central Expressway,’ running from Martin to Guadalupe Street along the west side of downtown — opened in 1957.
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