San Antonio Area Roads History
Historical
Maps & Plans |
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This page last updated April 13, 2017 |
Below
are historical maps and plans of the San Antonio freeway system and of
the San Antonio area in general. These were acquired from
planning documents and other sources.
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1936 map of Bexar County
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the map.

1950 map of Bexar County
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the map.

Map
showing original US 87 expressway
(ca.
1952)

Map
showing original US 81 South expressway
(ca.
1952)

1964
Expressway Plan
This is a map of the freeway plan from the 1964 San
Antonio-Bexar County Urban Transportation Study (SABCUTS)
plan. Note the proposed Bandera Freeway and the planned St.
Mary's Connection and San Pedro Connection on US 281, none of which
were ever built. The plan includes not only new freeways for
the time, but also widening proposals for existing freeways, many of
which were never completed as proposed.

Downtown
Expressway Distributor Plan
The 1964 expressway study included plans for an elaborate
downtown freeway distribution system. Only a few of the
proposed ramps were ever built. The east-west freeway running
across the bottom of the diagram is the never-built Bandera
Freeway. Also notice the never-built St. Mary's Connection at
the top. The numbers on the map are the projected 1985
traffic volumes.

Proposed
Bandera Freeway interchanges
These are conceptual diagrams of two proposed interchanges
along the never-built Bandera Freeway from the 1964 plan.

Proposed
US 281/Loop 410 interchange
This conceptual diagram, from the 1964 plan, shows that an
interchange at Loop 410 and US 281 next to the airport was indeed
planned.

Proposed
St. Mary's Connector
This sketch from 1964 shows how the planned St. Mary's
Connection between US 281 and I-35 would have linked with 281.

1975
Expressway Plan
This is a map of the freeway plan from the 1975 San
Antonio-Bexar County Urban Transportation Study (SABCUTS)
plan. This plan is essentially the same as the 1964 plan with
one major change-- the path for the proposed "Bandera Freeway" was
shifted to an alignment along Culebra Road. Of course, this
freeway never built. The St. Mary's Connection and San Pedro
Connection, which also appeared in the 1964 plan, also ended-up being
cancelled eventually. This plan also shows a proposed
upgrading of the northern half of Loop 1604. The numbers on
the map represent the proposed number of lanes for new and existing
freeways.
Other
sites of interest
You
can find a lot of great historic highway maps of San Antonio at the
site below.
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