Highways made the Alamo City a Texas and national crossroads during the dawn of the age of automobiles.
The headache dates as far back as the founding of the city, as highways began to sprout out of San Antonio when it served as the capital of the Spanish territory of Tejas. Those highways, one of three categories of roads in 1775, along with urban streets and farm-to-market rural roads, served as the main roads between towns and county seats. Highways were to be"first class," 40 feet wide and cleared of all obstructions.
In the early 19th century, Camino Real ran from the central Mexican city of Zacatecas to the border city of Nagocdoches to San Antonio. Real brought travelers from all over to the freshly founded town. The highway was meant to connect the various missions, presidios and other provincial governmental centers of Spanish North America to each other and to Mexico City, the capital of the Spanish territory.
Old San Antonio Road, still in use today, ran 500 miles in length from Louisiana to Texas, connecting the Sabine River to the missions along the Rio Grande.
While the highways of San Antonio in 2023 branch out in directions, drivers encounter not just one but two loops around the city, Loop 1604 and Interstate 410, which help circumnavigate from the east to the west or vice versa.
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