Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

==Transportation==
{{Main|Transportation in Sugar Land, Texas}}
Sugar Land currently does not have a [[public transport|mass transit system]]. However, this could change as it has been a possible candidate for expansion of Houston's [[METRORail]] system by means of a planned [[regional rail|commuter rail]] along [[U.S. Route 90 Alternate (Texas)|U.S. Highway 90A]]. The city is not a participant in the Houston area's [[Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas|METRO]] transit authority; Sugar Land's merchants do not collect the sales tax that partially funds that agency. [[Fort Bend County, Texas|Fort Bend County]] Public Transit provides commuter service from Sugar Land to Houston.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/index.aspx?page=317|title=Fort Bend County, TX : Commuter Park and Ride Services|website=Fortbendcountytx.gov|access-date=May 2, 2017}}</ref>

===Major thoroughfares===
[[Interstate 69 in Texas|Interstate 69]]/[[U.S. Route 59 in Texas|U.S. Highway 59]], the major freeway running diagonally through the city, has undergone a major widening project in recent years to accommodate the region's daily commuters. The finished portion of the freeway from east of State Highway 6 to just west of State Highway 99 currently has eight main lanes, with two diamond lanes and six continuous frontage road lanes. The freeway is currently undergoing a major expansion west of the city to accommodate growth in the nearby Richmond/Rosenberg area and western Fort Bend County, as well as upgrading it to federal highway standards to reflect its newfound status as an [[Interstate Highway System|interstate highway]].

[[U.S. Route 90 Alternate (Texas)|U.S. Highway 90 Alternate]] is another major highway running through Sugar Land from west to east and traverses a historic area of the city, known as "Old Sugar Land". Originally the main highway in Sugar Land prior to the construction of what is now Interstate 69, U.S. Highway 90A is currently widened to an eight-lane highway with a {{convert|30|ft|m|adj=on}} median between State Highway 6 and Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59.

[[Texas State Highway 6|State Highway 6]] is a major highway running from north to southeast Sugar Land and traverses through the {{convert|10,000|acre|km2}} master-planned community of First Colony. There is a freeway section that opened in 2008 from just west of Brooks Street/First Colony Blvd all the way to 3/4 miles north of U.S. Highway 90A.

A segment of [[Texas State Highway 99|State Highway 99]]/[[Grand Parkway]] currently traverses the New Territory and River Park master-planned communities. The original highway opened in 1994, with toll lanes added in 2014. Construction will start soon south of its current terminus at Interstate 69/US 59, which is expected to extend the highway east to Alvin in Brazoria County.

Texas F.M. 1876, widely known as Copenhaver Road, is a north-south state highway in north Sugar Land. It traverses through many established areas and acts as the western border of the Sugar Land Business Park.

===Airport===
[[Image:SugarLandAirportSugarLandTX.JPG|thumb|right|[[Sugar Land Regional Airport]]]]
[[Sugar Land Regional Airport]] (formerly Hull Field, later Sugar Land Municipal Airport) was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. It is the fourth largest airport within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The airport handles approximately 250 aircraft operations per day. The airport has an on-field United States Customs office, making this airport attractive to energy companies based in the Houston metropolitan area as this allows flights directly to and from countries wherein overseas operations are located, allowing fliers to avoid the delays inherent in high traffic airports such as [[George Bush Intercontinental Airport|George Bush Intercontinental]].

The airport today serves the area's [[general aviation]] (GA) aircraft serving corporate, governmental, and private clientele. A new {{convert|20000|sqft|adj=on}} terminal and a {{convert|60|acre|adj=on}} GA complex opened in 2006. Sugar Land Regional briefly handled commercial passenger service during the mid-1990s via a now-defunct Texas carrier known as [[Conquest Airlines]]. For scheduled commercial service, Sugar Landers rely on Houston's two commercial airports, [[George Bush Intercontinental Airport]] (IAH), {{convert|40|mi}} northeast, and [[William P. Hobby Airport]] (HOU), {{convert|27|mi}} east.

The city of Houston maintains a park that occupies {{convert|750|acre}} of land directly north of the Sugar Land Regional Airport, and developers have built master-planned communities (Telfair, and the future development of TX DOT Tract 3 immediately east of the airport) around the airport, both factors that block airport expansion.

[[China Airlines]] operated private bus shuttle services from Wel-Farm Super Market/Metro Bank on [[Texas State Highway 6|State Highway 6]] in Sugar Land to George Bush Intercontinental Airport to feed the flight from Bush Intercontinental to [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]].<ref>"[http://www.china-airlines.com/en/promotionen/promotionen000007.htm Houston International Airport Bus Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704062327/http://www.china-airlines.com/en/promotionen/promotionen000007.htm |date=2007-07-04 }}", ''[[China Airlines]]''</ref> The service ended when China Airlines pulled out of Houston on January 29, 2008.<ref name="Curtail">Hensel, Bill, Jr. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4493415 2 foreign airlines curtailing Houston passenger service / High fuel prices hit carriers from Mexico, Taiwan]". ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Saturday January 12, 2008. Business 1. Retrieved on June 12, 2009.</ref>