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Interstate 35E | ||||
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| Stemmons Freeway | ||||
 I-35E highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by TxDOT | ||||
| Length | 96.76 mi[1] (155.72 km) | |||
| Existed | 1959–present | |||
| NHS | Entire route | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |    I-35 / I-35W / US 77 in Hillsboro | |||
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| North end | I-35 / I-35W in Denton | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Texas | |||
| Counties | Hill, Ellis, Dallas, Denton | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Interstate 35E (I-35E[a]), an Interstate Highway, is the eastern half of I-35, where it splits to serve the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. I-35 splits into two branch routes, I-35W and I-35E, at Hillsboro. I-35E travels north for 97 miles (156 km), maintaining I-35's sequence of exit numbers. It travels through Dallas before rejoining with I-35W to reform I-35 in Denton.
During the early years of the Interstate Highway System, branching Interstates with directional suffixes, such as N, S, E, and W, were common nationwide. On every other Interstate nationwide, these directional suffixes have been phased out by redesignating the suffixed route numbers with a loop or spur route number designation (such as I-270 in Maryland, which was once I-70S) or, in some cases, were assigned a different route number (such as I-76, which was once I-80S). In the case of I-35 in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, since neither branch is clearly the main route and both branches return to a unified Interstate beyond the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has allowed the suffixes of E and W in Texas to remain in the present day. I-35 also splits into I-35E and I-35W in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, for similar reasons as the I-35 split in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
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- ^ "Route Log - Main Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 1". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Transportation Planning and Programming Division (n.d.). "Highway Designations Glossary". Texas Department of Transportation. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
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