77017 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Wtf is it with this hwy 90? Am I trippin or are there about 20 alt or proposed hwy 90s in the city? Does anyone know the story behind all this? Has anyone else seen what I'm talkin bout drivin through houston? You can be anywhere and come across a hwy 90. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Alt 90 (aka OST) was the main east/west road before I-10.What's funny is the Alt 90 near UH (OST) has the same old school hotels at the Alt 90 in New Orleans.I have driven Alt 90 coming back form Big Bend, through San Antonio, into Houston. Very cool Alternate route to I-10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 (edited) i like alt-90 too... 90 is I-10 through houston from I-10 on the east side of town, alt-90 starts with N Wayside, which becomes Wayside/Macario Garcia (one-ways), then eventually S. Wayside (and a little of 69th). then it continues on Old Spanish Trail, and then south main becomes alt-90 when it intersects with OST. it pretty much tries to make a diagonal line from I-10 to the southwest side, but it ends up a little squiggly Edited October 11, 2005 by sevfiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Timmy Chan's Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 (edited) If you take Hwy 90 to the east of Houston, you'll see cypress swamps just a mile or two outside the Beltway that would make you SWEAR you're in Southern Louisiana.I live about a mile from OST, and it's my favorite road in town. I always thought OST was Houston's name for Hwy 90, but I've seen a few "OST" names on 90 out near Big Bend. I think there's an "OST Muffler" (or something similar) in Sanderson.I love seeing the HISTORY along 90 in Houston. Driving along Wayside through the East End, near the Ship Channel, you see homes that must be 100 years old. Other than the museum, there are few places in Houston that you see history like that. Edited October 11, 2005 by Original Timmy Chan's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 They call it OST in New Orleans, too.One Sugar Bowl we had to stay WAY out OST at the OST Motel. It was like the last room in the city. Right next door to Tokyo Massage Parlor.Now THAT was an adventure. The place kinda looked like the Alamo Inn on OST in Houston. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 I live about a mile from OST, and it's my favorite road in town. I always thought OST was Houston's name for Hwy 90, but I've seen a few "OST" names on 90 out near Big Bend. I think there's an "OST Muffler" (or something similar) in Sanderson. Old Spanish Trail was a national highway that ran from St. Augustine, FL, to San Diego. I always thought it followed an old cattle or Indian trail, but this article from the Handbook of TX set me straight on that: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online...es/OO/ero1.html There shoulda been a TV series about this, like the one about Route 66 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rehan Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 http://www.oldspanishtrailcentennial.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 (edited) In LA and MS, have parts of US 90 been temporarily renamed because of the parts of I-10 that have been wiped out?That map is interesting. Except for San Diego, the road visits all the same cities that I-10 does. Edited October 12, 2005 by westguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Timmy Chan's Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Thanks for the info...I'd like to drive the entire length of US 90 someday...all at once.I've done the entire stretch from Van Horn to San Antonio (many times), and a few pieces between San Antonio and Richmond/Rosenberg, everything from Richmond/Rosenberg through Houston over to Crosby, and then everything from Lafayette, LA to Biloxi, MS. As you can tell, I prefer the backroads to the interstates when I travel. Those stretches of road are some of the coolest drives I've ever seen: through Big Bend country, the Hill Country, the Southern Louisiana swamplands, and right on the beach in Mississippi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Nice link, Rehan. It evokes fond memories of many trips to Georgia in the 50s and 60s. The white crosses through Louisiana weren't exactly "fond", but they are very vivid memories to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Plastic Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Are there any other Alt Highways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnu Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Are there any other Alt Highways?Lots of 'em....here is someones list:http://www.us-highways.com/altus.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 what a great (and exhaustive) source! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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