Transportation in Sugar Land, Texas

Transportation in Sugar Land, Texas includes multiple highways and an airport. There is no mass transit system, but it has been a possible candidate for expansion of Houston's METRORail system by means of a planned commuter rail. Since many of Sugar Land's residents work in Houston, thus creating routine rush hour traffic along the city's main thoroughfare, Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59, there has been large support in the area for such a project (However, the city is not within Metro's service area).

Major thoroughfares

Airport

Sugar Land Regional Airport (formerly Sugar Land Municipal Airport) was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. Sugar Land Regional is the fourth largest airport within the HoustonSugar LandBaytown Metropolitan Area. The airport handles approximately 350 aircraft operations per day.

The airport today mostly serves the area's general aviation (GA) aircraft. A new 20,000 square foot (1,900 m²) Terminal and a 60-acre (243,000 m²) GA complex, are under construction, with the terminal completion expected in Spring 2006. Sugar Land Regional briefly handled commercial passenger service during the mid-1990s via a now-defunct Texas carrier known as Conquest Airlines. For scheduled commercial service, Sugar Landers rely on Houston's two commercial airports, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), 45 miles northeast, and William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), 30 miles east.

The city of Houston maintains a park that occupies 750 acres (3 km²) of land directly north of the Sugar Land Regional Airport and Sugar Land homeowners have built houses directly south of the airport, both factors that block airport expansion.

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