{{Short description|Highway in Texas}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox road |state=TX |type=SH |route=178 |map={{maplink-road|from=Texas State Highway 178.map}} |map_custom=yes |map_notes=SH 178, highlighted in red |length_mi=2.860 |length_ref=<ref name="SH 178">{{TxDOT|SH|178|accessdate=July 13, 2010}}</ref> |length_round=3 |established=1991 |direction_a=West |direction_b=East |terminus_a={{jct|state=NM|NM|136}} in Santa Teresa, NM |junction={{jct|state=TX|SH|20}} in El Paso |terminus_b={{jct|state=TX|I|10|US|85|US|180}} in El Paso |counties=El Paso |previous_type=SH |previous_route=177 |next_type=SH |next_route=179 }} '''State Highway 178''' ('''SH 178''') is a Texas state highway in the city of El Paso in El Paso County maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The {{convert|3.0|mi|km|1|adj=on}} route designated in 1991 connects New Mexico State Road 136 at the New Mexico state line between El Paso and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, to a freeway carrying Interstate 10, U.S. Route 85, and U.S. Route 180 on the west side of El Paso. The route together with NM 136 is a major urban roadway connecting an international border crossing with I-10. The route also has an important intersection with SH 20.
The route's numerical designation was previously assigned to a road in the Texas Panhandle during the 1930s. An extension to the current route potentially doubling its length was considered and rejected in recent years.
==History== ===Hartley and Moore counties=== SH 178 was previously proposed on October 25, 1932 as a connector route between the cities of Hartley and Dumas in Hartley and Moore counties in the Texas Panhandle.<ref>{{cite web |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |date=October 24, 1932 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141933/https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003673818.pdf |title=Minutes |website=publicdocs.txdot.gov |publisher=Texas Department of Transportation |access-date=1 May 2023 |language=en-us |url-status=live |url=https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003673818.pdf}}</ref><ref name="map 1933">{{cite map|publisher=Texas State Highway Commission|title=Official Map of the Highway System of Texas|url=http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php?mapnum=6188|date=June 15, 1933|section=B10-B11|scale=⅞"=31 mi.|accessdate=July 13, 2010|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606065938/http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php?mapnum=6188|url-status=dead}}</ref> By 1936, the Hartley County portion had been completed<ref name="map 1936">{{cite map|publisher=Texas State Highway Commission|title=Official Map of the Highway System of Texas|url=http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php?mapnum=6193|date=March 1, 1936|scale=1"=29 mi.|accessdate=July 13, 2010|archive-date=February 21, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221081326/https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php?mapnum=6193|url-status=dead}}</ref> with the Moore County portion following by 1940.<ref name="Moore">{{cite map|publisher=Texas State Highway Department|title=General Highway Map, Moore County, Texas|url=http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/aris/maps/maplookup.php?mapnum=4957|date=February 1, 1940|scale=1"=2 mi.|accessdate=July 13, 2010}}</ref> On June 21, 1938, SH 178 was cancelled, as the route became part of SH 152.<ref>{{cite web |archive-date=October 21, 2017 |date=June 20, 1938 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021165008/https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003676245.pdf |title=Minutes |website=publicdocs.txdot.gov |publisher=Texas Department of Transportation |access-date=1 May 2023 |language=en-us |url-status=live |url=https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003676245.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/821491|title=Enumeration District and Related Maps|series=Record Group 29: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007}}</ref> ===El Paso County=== The current route in El Paso was designated on June 26, 1991. TxDOT proposed extending the route an additional {{convert|3|mi|km|0}} to Loop 375 on June 30, 1994, but those plans were dropped on October 25, 2007.<ref name="SH 178"/>
==Route description== SH 178 is a major urban thoroughfare on El Paso's west side that is locally known as '''Artcraft Road''' The route is a four to six-lane divided highway beginning at NM 136, or Pete V. Domenici International Highway, at the New Mexico state line between El Paso and Santa Teresa in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. The route proceeds east along Artcraft Road crossing the Rio Grande shortly before intersecting SH 20 at Doniphan Drive. The route then continues east ending at the combined I-10, US 85, and US 180 freeway where the roadway continues eastward as Paseo del Norte Road.
SH 178 and NM 136 together form a connection between the Santa Teresa-San Jerónimo, Chih. Port of Entry and I-10 bypassing Sunland Park, New Mexico, Santa Teresa, and central El Paso.<ref name="Google maps">{{Google maps |title=Map of SH 178 |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=TX-178+E%2FArtcraft+Rd&daddr=Artcraft+Rd+to:31.883152,-106.581215&hl=en&geocode=Ff5u5gEdYe-k-Q%3BFWhv5gEdH4Cl-Q%3B&mra=mi&mrcr=1&mrsp=2&sz=19&sll=31.882919,-106.580842&sspn=0.001187,0.00327&ie=UTF8&ll=31.880036,-106.606479&spn=0.018986,0.052314&z=15 |accessdate=2010-07-13}}</ref>
==Major intersections== {{jcttop |length_ref=<ref name="Google maps"/> |state=TX |county=El Paso |location=El Paso }} {{TXint |mile=0 |road={{jct|state=NM|NM|136|location1=Santa Teresa Port of Entry}} |notes=Western terminus at New Mexico state line }} {{TXint |mile=0.3 |road=Westside Drive |notes=At-grade intersection; future interchange }} {{TXint |mile=1.2 |road=Upper Valley Road |notes=At-grade intersection; future interchange }} {{TXint |mile=1.8 |road={{jct|state=TX|SH|20|name1=Doniphan Drive|city1=Socorro|city2=Canutillo}} |notes=West end of freeway }} {{TXint |mile=2.2 |type=incomplete |road=Frontage Road |notes=Westbound exit and eastbound entrance}} {{TXint |mile=2.7 |type=incomplete |road=Santiago Street |notes=Westbound exit only; east end of freeway}} {{TXint |mile=3.0 |road={{jct|state=TX|I|10|US|85|US|180|city1=Socorro|city2=Anthony}} |notes=I-10 exit 8; eastern terminus; future stack interchange }} {{jctbtm|keys=incomplete}}
==See also== *{{Portal-inline|U.S. Roads}} *{{Portal-inline|Texas}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{AttachedKML|display=title,inline}} {{osmrelation|1127540|Texas State Highway 178}}
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