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=== Texas === {{Main|Interstate 10 in Texas}} From the state line with New Mexico (at [[Anthony, Texas|Anthony]]) to [[Texas State Highway 20|State Highway 20]] (SH 20) in west [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]], I-10 is bordered by frontage roads South Desert for lanes along I-10 east (actually headed south) and North Desert for lanes along I-10 west (headed north). The Interstate then has no frontage roads for {{convert|9|mi|km|spell=in}} but regains them east of downtown and retains them to [[Clint, Texas|Clint]]. In this stretch, the frontage roads are Gateway East for the eastbound lanes and Gateway West for the westbound lanes. All four frontage roads are one-way streets. Gateway East and Gateway West are notable, in particular, for the [[Texas Department of Transportation]] (TxDOT)'s liberal usage of the [[Texas U-turn]] at most underpasses of I-10 on this stretch. I-10 is the western terminus for [[Interstate 20|I-20]], and the two highways intersect in [[Reeves County, Texas|Reeves County]], about {{convert|41|mi|km}} southwest of Pecos, at milemarker 186. A small portion of I-10 from [[Texas State Highway Loop 1604|Loop 1604]] to [[Downtown San Antonio]] is known as the Northwest Expressway or the McDermott Freeway, while another portion from downtown to Loop 1604 east is called East Expressway or José López Freeway. In Downtown San Antonio, it has a concurrency with [[Interstate 35|I-35]], and, throughout most of the northwest side of the city, it has a concurrency with [[U.S. Route 87|US 87]], which begins in [[Comfort, Texas|Comfort]], before turning off and heading east out of the city. Starting in San Antonio, it follows a more direct route of [[U.S. Route 90|US 90]], with occasional small concurrences. In [[Houston]], from the western suburb of [[Katy, Texas|Katy]] to downtown, I-10 is commonly known as the [[Katy Freeway]]. This section has as many as 18 lanes (12 main lanes and 6 mid-freeway [[high-occupancy toll]] [HOT]/[[high-occupancy vehicle]] [HOV] lanes, not counting access road turning lanes)<ref>{{cite web |author = Texas Department of Transportation |author-link = Texas Department of Transportation |publisher = Texas Department of Transportation |url = http://www.katyfreeway.net/images/schematics_pdf/62.pdf |title = Schematic Layout: IH 10 Katy Frwy, IH 10 at Bunker Hill Road |url-status = usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209095152/http://www.katyfreeway.net/images/schematics_pdf/62.pdf |archive-date=December 9, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/?ll=29.784411,-95.53451&spn=0.001748,0.002264&t=k&z=19 |access-date=January 28, 2013}}</ref> and is one of the widest freeways in the world. The space for the expansion was the [[Right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-way]] of the old [[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad]]. The section east of [[Downtown Houston]] is officially known as the East Freeway, although it is widely known by locals as the Baytown East Freeway due to a marketing push by [[Baytown, Texas|Baytown]], one of the largest cities in [[Greater Houston]]. In [[Beaumont, Texas|Beaumont]], it is known as I-10 south, south of Calder Avenue, and I-10 north, north of Calder Avenue. It is known as I-10 east from the I-10 curve to the [[Neches River]], which is Beaumont's and [[Jefferson County, Texas|Jefferson County]]'s eastern boundary line. Continuing into [[Orange County, Texas|Orange County]] and passing through the city of [[Orange, Texas|Orange]] at the easternmost end of Texas, and located at the base of the [[Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana)|Sabine River]] bridge is the last I-10 milemarker in Texas, number 880, before entering into Louisiana. Approximately 36 percent of I-10's entire route is located within Texas; the longest segment of any signed Interstate within one state.
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