( Palestine, Texas ) - Taking a road trip through Texas involves a combination of highways and blacktop roads. The highways can get us where we need to go quickly. The blacktop roads allow us to slow down and check out the surroundings.

Those highways are also crucial for delivering goods to stores all across the state. The more highways we have the better it is for truckers and other delivery couriers to get what we need to us. Plans are in motion right now to convert a major highway in East Texas to an interstate.

A New Interstate Could Be Coming to East Texas

A new study was released by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that could convert U.S. 287 into an interstate ( WFAA ). U.S. 287 is 671 miles long and goes from the Texas coast into Montana. A portion of U.S. 287

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