Toll Loop 49 - Tyler bypass

[Chris]

The new western segment of TX-49 is now visible in Google Earth due to new imagery.



Tyler is a bigger city than I originally thought, it has over 100,000 people right now.

[okroads]

I've been studying up on Tyler's highways since I'll be in Tyler next month. I was also surprised at how large it is and just how many highways the city has.

I'm also surprised that U.S. 69 still goes through the center of town; several cities in East Texas route the U.S. highway (and state highways) along the loop.

[bugo]

I've been studying up on Tyler's highways since I'll be in Tyler next month. I was also surprised at how large it is and just how many highways the city has.

I'm also surprised that U.S. 69 still goes through the center of town; several cities in East Texas route the U.S. highway (and state highways) along the loop.

Loop 323 was a mess 20 years ago.  I hate to imagine how bad it must be now.  That's probably one reason US 69 and 271 (and the Texas highways like 31 and 64) weren't rerouted along the loop. 

[agentsteel53]

Loop 323 has to be the most hideous excuse for a bypass I've ever seen.  Hello, grade separation, nice to meet you too.

[bugo]

Loop 323 has to be the most hideous excuse for a bypass I've ever seen.  Hello, grade separation, nice to meet you too.

Yeah it's terrible.  One of the worst.  It's really only useful as a shortcut from one highway to another.  When I was a kid we always used it to connect from US 271/TX 155 north to TX 110 south when we would visit family in Whitehouse.  A strange feature of Loop 323 is the spur that connects to US 271.  It's signed Loop 323 in one direction and US 271/TX 155 in the other.

[Sykotyk]

I was in Tyler last year. Horrible, horrible, horrible excuse of a loop.

No wonder they have to build another loop.

Sykotyk