page_title: Tyler, Texas
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Tyler, Texas / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial photo of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport in Tyler, Texas. This image was shot by Butler Planning Services for the Whitehouse Vision 2020 Comprehensive Plan Project (Whitehouse) on September 9, 2005.
context_page_description: Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2019 census-estimated population of 106,985, Tyler was the thirty-eighth most populous city in Texas and 292nd in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the 199th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and 16th in Texas after Waco and the College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 230,221 in 2018.
  The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement originated in Tyler. After appeals by local Texas Department of Transportation officials, the local Civitan International chapter adopted a two-mile stretch of U.S. Route 69 to maintain. Drivers and other motorists traveling on this segment of U.S. 69 will notice brown road signs that read, "First Adopt-A-Highway in the World".
  Tyler is known as the "Rose Capital of America", a nickname it earned from a long history of rose production, cultivation, and processing.
context_section_description: The most common form of transportation is the motor vehicle. Tyler is a nexus of several major highways. Interstate 20 runs along the north edge of the city going east and west, U.S. Highway 69 runs north–south through the center of town and State Highway 64 runs east–west through the city. Tyler also has access to U.S. Highway 271, State Highway 31, State Highway 155, and State Highway 110. Loop 323 was established in 1957 and encircles the city, which has continued to grow outside of this loop. Loop 49 is a limited access  "outer loop" around the city and currently runs from State Highway 110 south of Tyler to Interstate 20 northwest of Tyler. Loop 124 is 1.524 mi (2.453 km) in length.
caption: Aerial photo of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport
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