Interstate 69W (I-69W) is a relatively short north–south
Interstate Highway
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running through
South Texas
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in the United States. The freeway begins northeast of the middle of
World Trade International Bridge in
Laredo and ends at I-35. In the future, I-69W will head northeast for before terminating near
Victoria as both
I-69E and I-69W merge to form
I-69
Interstate 69 (I-69) is an Interstate Highway in the United States currently consisting of 10 unconnected segments with an original continuous segment from Indianapolis, Indiana, northeast to the Canadian border in Port Huron, Michigan, a ...
. For its entire length, I-69W
runs concurrently with
US Highway 59 (US 59).
Route description

The
Federal Highway Administration
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(FHWA) approved the designation of a section of freeway in Laredo as part of I-69W. The congressionally designated I-69W corridor begins at the
Mexican border
Mexico shares international borders with three nations:
*To the north the United States–Mexico border, which extends for a length of through the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.
*To the southe ...
on the
World Trade International Bridge, which connects to