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Memorial Drive (Houston)
Memorial Drive is an arterial road in the western half of Houston, Texas, United States. It runs from Interstate 45 west to State Highway 6, a distance of approximately 20 miles (32 km), although a section goes through several predominantly higher-income residential neighborhoods in the cities of Houston, Bunker Hill Village, Piney Point Village, and Hunters Creek Village. In addition it goes through Memorial Park. Memorial Drive was named in the memory of the men who served in Camp Logan.〔Smith, Brenda Beust. "(Just who was...Westheimer/A guide to the people whose names grace the street signs of Houston )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday March 23, 1986. Lifestyle 1. Retrieved on January 23, 2010.〕
==History==
In the 1940s and early 1950s, Memorial Drive was originally intended to be one of ten freeway spokes extending outward from Downtown Houston. 〔(Ch. 3-Downtown Freeways ). ''Houston Freeways'', Erik Slotboom.〕 Despite the explosive population growth in the Houston area in recent decades, the heaviest traffic on Memorial Drive was in the early 1960s. Nearly 47,000 vehicles per day traveled on the section at Waugh Drive in 1960. When the Katy Freeway opened in 1968, the road's importance as a high-speed corridor decreased.〔(Ch. 4-Spokes ). ''Houston Freeways'', Erik Slotboom.〕 In contrast to its earlier days, between 30,000 and 36,000 vehicles per day traveled along this section in 2001.〔(24 Hour Saturation Counts ). H-GAC Transportation Department.'〕
Houston City Council member Pam Holm announced in May 2007 that a large portion, roughly one fourth of the Memorial's length, will be expanded and beautified. The stretch of road from George Bush Park eastward to Gessner Road, about 6.2 miles (9.9 km), will be renovated to meet the population boom in the west Houston area. The first part of the expansion was slated to begin in 2009.〔(Westchester neighborhood news archive (May 2007) )〕
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