Texas State Highway 40
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| William D Fitch Pkwy | ||||
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| Maintained by TxDOT | ||||
| Length: | 3.0 mi (4.8 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1994 – present | |||
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 FM 2154 at College Station
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 SH 6 at College Station
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| Counties: | Brazos | |||
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State Highway 40 (SH 40) or William D. Fitch Parkway, runs from Farm to Market Road 2154 (FM 2154) to SH 6 in College Station, Texas. The current SH 40 was authorized in 1994. Signage for the highway went up March 2006 and the road was officially opened June 23, 2006.
SH 40 occupies the overpass and intersection with SH 6 that was formerly Greens Prairie Road, which was truncated and connected to SH 40 by Arrington Road West of SH 6. Greens Prairie Road and SH 40 were renamed in honor of William D. Fitch in August 2006. At SH 6, SH 40 terminates and becomes a local road (maintaining the Fitch Parkway name) continuing northeast to SH 30.
SH 40 begins at an intersection with FM 2154 (Wellborn Road) in College Station, Brazos County, heading southeast on William D. Fitch Parkway, a four-lane undivided road. The road heads near residential subdivisions, becoming a divided highway with the median widening to include woodland. The highway heads through more wooded areas with some fields and residential neighborhoods, turning to the east. SH 40 turns to the northeast and the median narrows, with the road becoming undivided again as it comes to its eastern terminus at an interchange with SH 6.
A previous highway, also called SH 40, existed from before 1920 until the mid-1930s, and ran from the Texas-Oklahoma boundary north of Gainesville down through Denton, Dallas and Beaumont before ending in Port Arthur. There was also a spur route that went from Denton and ended in Fort Worth. By 1926, this spur had become an extension of SH 10. All parts of this route were supplanted by highways in the U.S. Highway system by 1935. By 1926, SH 40 was rerouted over a portion of SH 37 between Rusk and southeast of Lufkin, while the old route was either cancelled or transferred to SH 37.
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