Loop 1 - Mopac MoPac Expressway


The MoPac is so named because the freeway overlays the MoPac Railroad. Brandon Kraft writes:
For a good amount of the length of the freeway, the Missouri-Pacific rail line is laid between the main lanes of the freeway on the medians. The freeway was known for having the MoPac lines with it so thus the name stuck.
Texas State Loop 1 / State Highway 1 Guides

Loop 1 North - MoPac Expressway - 35 photos

Toll 1 North - 22 photos

Loop 1 South - MoPac Expressway - 40 photos
The tolled extension of Loop 1 opened on November 1, 2007, extending the state highway north from FM 734 (Parmer Lane) to the new Toll 45 N freeway, west of Interstate 35 and east of U.S. 183 / Toll 183A.

Cesar Chavez Street (West 1st Street) ends at a semi-directional T interchange with Loop 1 (MoPac Expressway) and Lake Austin Boulevard.
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Cesar Chavez Street partitions into ramps for Loop 1 north, Loop 1 south and Lake Austin Boulevard west. Both ramps pass over West 5th Street and a Union Pacific Railroad.
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Overheads at the Cesar Chavez Street ramp split for Loop 1 south across the Townlake Bridge and Lake Austin Boulevard, which continues West 6th Street to the Tarrytown neighborhood and Lake Austin.
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Newfield Lane represents the east side frontage road of the MoPac Expressway within the vicinity of Enfield Road. Ramps connect Loop 1 with Enfield Road via Newfield Lane north and Winsted Lane south.
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Photo Credits:
- Alex Nitzman: 09/29/07
Page Updated Thursday January 25, 2018.