Editing Shreveport, Louisiana (section)

====Highways and roads====
[[File:Shreveport September 2015 071 (Texas Street).jpg|thumb|Texas Street]]
[[File:Shreveport September 2015 087 (Texas Avenue).jpg|thumb|Texas Avenue]]
Shreveport's past reflects the need for mass transit and public roads. As far back as the 1870s, residents used [[mule]]-[[Horsecar|drawn street cars]] that were converted to electric motorized cars by 1890. [[Commuter rail]] systems in Shreveport flourished for many decades, and rail car lines extended out to rural areas. In 1930 trolleys and rail cars began to be replaced by buses, although motor buses did not finally replace all trolley service until the 1960s. In the 1960s, the [[Interstate Highway System]] came to the area with the construction of [[Interstate 20 in Louisiana|Interstate 20]].

The local public transportation provider, [[SporTran]], provides moderately extensive bus service throughout Shreveport and Bossier City. Sportran operates seven days a week on seventeen bus routes (five night routes) from 6:00&nbsp;a.m. to 1:00 am, with no night service on Sunday. The highway system has a cross-hair and loop freeway structure similar to that of [[Texas]] cities like [[Houston]] and [[Dallas]]. The loop consists of the Outer Loop Freeway [[Interstate 220 (Louisiana)|Interstate 220]] on the north and the Inner Loop Freeway, [[Louisiana Highway 3132]], on the south, forming approximately an {{convert|8|mi|km|0|adj=mid|-diameter}} semi-loop around downtown. Another loop is formed by the Bert Kouns Industrial Loop (Louisiana Highway 526) and circles further south, crossing [[Interstate 49 in Louisiana|Interstate 49]]. I-49 now extends north to [[Interstate 30]] in [[Arkansas]], though there is a gap in I-49 within Shreveport.

Shreveport lies along the route of the proposed [[Interstate 69 in Louisiana|Interstate 69]] [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) superhighway that will link Canada, the U.S. industrial [[Midwest]], Texas, and [[Mexico]].