Farm to Market Road 1960 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. Its western terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 6 in northwestern Harris County. It travels generally to the east, ending at State Highway 321 in Dayton in western Liberty County. FM 1960 has long been an artery around Houston, though it has been shortened and re-routed over the years. Once consisting of most of the current State Highway 6 in West Houston as well as its current northern route, it still traverses 26 ZIP codes north of the Houston city limits. On June 27, 1995, FM 1960 was divided into two sections – the more rural part east of FM-2100 remaining with the Farm to Market designation and the one closer to the city west of FM-2100 was given the new Urban Road designation. This is mainly a Texas Department of Transportation convention, as all of the signage on the complete road retains its FM roots. In 2011, a large segment of FM 1960 was alternatively designated as Cypress Creek Parkway from State Highway 249 to Aldine-Westfield in an effort to improve the image of the roadway. Landscaped medians with designated turnlanes replaced the broad open center median originally in place. FM 1960 is also one of the very few FM roads with a business segment, running through the middle of Humble, Texas.
Business Farm to Market Road 1960-A or Bus. FM 1960-A is an east-west business route of FM 1960. It is long and is one of only two Business Farm to Market Roads in Texas. The road begins in Houston northeast of George Bush Intercontinental Airport and continues through central Humble where it intersects I-69/US 59 then reconnects to FM 1960 east of Humble. The route is known as Humble Westfield Rd. west of I-69/US 59 and First St. east of I-69/US 59.
History
The route follows a previous alignment of FM 1960 through Humble before June 21, 1978 when FM 1960 was redirected over its present location with the former alignment being then designated State Highway Loop 184. It retained the state loop designation until the current business route was established on June 21, 1990.
