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State Highway 124 or SH 124 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The highway begins along the Gulf Coast near the northeast end of the Bolivar Peninsula at and extends to the northeast ending at and . In between, the highway has major intersections with and . The highway is located in Galveston, Chambers, and Jefferson counties and also serves the communities of Hamshire, Fannett, and Cheek. A portion of SH 124 is part of a longer coastal hurricane evacuation route. The route number was originally assigned over a portion of the current between Fredericksburg and Comanche in Central Texas during the late 1920s. By the early 1930s, the route number was assigned along the current route south of Stowell to High Island and along the current SH 87 to Port Bolivar and eventually Galveston. By the end of the decade, the highway received its current High Island to Beaumont configuration. ==Route description== SH 124 begins at SH 87 in High Island along the Gulf Coast near the northeastern end of the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County. SH 87 from this point toward Sabine Pass has been closed since 1990 due to coastal erosion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TexasFreeway.com )〕 The highway proceeds to the north climbing up a salt dome where the central portion of High Island is located. Leaving town, the highway travels back downhill entering marshland where the highway enters Chambers County upon bridging the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The highway leaves the marshland and continues north with branching to the west and then . Further north, the highway passes through Stowell where SH 65 branches off to the west.〔 In Stowell and Winnie, the route is known as Gulfway Drive south of SH 73. The highway intersects in Winnie and then turns east along SH 73 meeting the terminus of FM 1406 on the town's eastern edge at the boundary with Jefferson County. The highway shortly branches off of SH 73 to the northeast passing through Hamshire, intersecting at Fannett, and then passing through Cheek. The highway continues to the northeast on a course closely parallel Interstate 10 into Beaumont. branches off to the north as the highway enters Beaumont where it as known as Fannett Road.〔 The highway then terminates at US 69 / US 96 / US 287 in southern Beaumont. The portion of SH 124 from its south end at SH 87 to FM 1406 in Winnie is part of a longer hurricane evacuation route extending northward to . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texas State Highway 124」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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