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- The Westpark Tollway, also Fort Bend Westpark Tollway, is a limited-access toll road in Texas, serving western Houston and Harris County, and northeastern Fort Bend County. Construction on the facility began in 2001 and portions of the road were opened to traffic in May 2004. Construction of the roadway was completed in August 2005. The Westpark Tollway begins on Westpark Drive just past the South Rice Avenue intersection in the Uptown District of Houston and runs approximately 22 miles (35 km) west to Farm to Market Road 1093 just past Farm to Market Road 723 (Spring Green Boulevard) in Fulshear, Texas. It runs roughly parallel and to the south of Westheimer Road (FM 1093) in Harris County and concurrently with FM 1093 in Fort Bend County. The Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) and the Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority (FBCTRA) operate the Westpark Tollway jointly. The 14-mile (23 km) HCTRA section is simply named Westpark Tollway; however, the 8-mile (12 km) section of the toll road operated by the FBCTRA is named Fort Bend Westpark Tollway. There are three major interchanges in between: the Southwest Freeway (I-69)/(US 59), the West Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8), and Grand Parkway (State Highway 99), along with several minor interchanges. The namesake of the tollway is Westpark Drive—an east–west major arterial running through a mostly industrial area. Like other toll roads in the Houston area, the speed limit is 65 mph—even inside Beltway 8. The Westpark Tollway is the first fully electronic toll road in the United States. There are no tollbooths or toll collectors along either section of the route. The only way to legally drive on the road is by using a transponder unit attached to a vehicle's windshield (either HCTRA's EZ TAG, NTTA's TollTag, TxTAG, PikePass from Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, or K-Tag from Kansas Turnpike Authority). These transponders communicate with overhead sensors to deduct tolls from the user's toll account. (en)
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- Fort Bend Westpark Tollway (en)
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- Harris (en)
- Fort Bend (en)
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- Westpark Tollway highlighted in red (en)
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- Eastbound exit and westbound entrance (en)
- Eastbound exit only (en)
- Westbound exit and eastbound entrance (en)
- No westbound exit (en)
- No westbound entrance (en)
- Eastern terminus of FBCTRA's Fort Bend Westpark Tollway; (en)
- No access from mainlanes (en)
- Westbound exit and westbound entrance (en)
- Northern terminus of FBCTRA's Grand Parkway Toll Road (en)
- western terminus of HCTRA's Westpark Tollway (en)
- Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; eastbound entrance from I-69/US 59 northbound; westbound entrance from I-69/US 59 southbound, exit 121B; I-69 does not appear on exit signage (en)
- Future direct ramps to northbound Grand Parkway from eastbound and westbound Westpark Tollway (en)
- Includes direct ramp from eastbound Westpark Tollway to southbound Sam Houston Tollway (en)
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- Electronic toll tags only, cash and pay-by-mail not allowed (en)
- Fondren Mainlane Toll Plaza (en)
- Katy Gaston Toll Plaza (en)
- Peek Toll Plaza (en)
- Westmoor Toll Plaza (en)
- Wilcrest Mainlane Toll Plaza (en)
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- Cook Road (en)
- Westpark Drive (en)
- Gessner Road (en)
- Peek Road (en)
- - Downtown (en)
- / Barker Cypress Road / Westheimer Road (en)
- / Eldridge Parkway / Synott Rd (en)
- Fondren Road / Gessner Road / Hillcroft Avenue (en)
- Grand Mission Boulevard (en)
- Katy-Gaston Road (en)
- Mason Road / Grand Mission Boulevard (en)
- West Houston Center Boulevard / Dairy Ashford Road / Cook Road (en)
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- Westpark Drive, Post Oak Boulevard (en)
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- incomplete (en)
- trans (en)
- unbuilt (en)
- toll (en)
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- The Westpark Tollway, also Fort Bend Westpark Tollway, is a limited-access toll road in Texas, serving western Houston and Harris County, and northeastern Fort Bend County. Construction on the facility began in 2001 and portions of the road were opened to traffic in May 2004. Construction of the roadway was completed in August 2005. The Westpark Tollway begins on Westpark Drive just past the South Rice Avenue intersection in the Uptown District of Houston and runs approximately 22 miles (35 km) west to Farm to Market Road 1093 just past Farm to Market Road 723 (Spring Green Boulevard) in Fulshear, Texas. It runs roughly parallel and to the south of Westheimer Road (FM 1093) in Harris County and concurrently with FM 1093 in Fort Bend County. (en)
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- Fort Bend Westpark Tollway (en)
- Westpark Tollway (en)
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