Live cameras
Watch the Loop, the Beltway, and every freeway in between.
Real-time freeway and intersection feeds from Houston TranStar — the joint operations center for TxDOT, Harris County, METRO, and the City of Houston. Refreshed every minute, available from any browser.
Cameras by corridor
Houston TranStar operates hundreds of freeway cameras across the Houston-Galveston region. Each link below opens TranStar's live camera page for that corridor.
Major freeways
- I-10 East (East Freeway) — downtown to Baytown
- I-10 West (Katy Freeway) — downtown to Katy
- I-45 North (North Freeway) — downtown to The Woodlands
- I-45 South (Gulf Freeway) — downtown to Galveston
- US-59 / I-69 North (Eastex Freeway) — downtown to Humble
- US-59 / I-69 South (Southwest Freeway) — downtown to Sugar Land
- US-290 (Northwest Freeway) — inner Loop to Cypress and Hempstead
- SH-288 (South Freeway) — downtown to Pearland
The 610 Loop
- I-610 West Loop — Galleria and Memorial
- I-610 North Loop — Heights and Northside
- I-610 East Loop — Ship Channel and East End
- I-610 South Loop — Medical Center and Astrodome
Beltway 8 / Sam Houston Tollway
- Beltway 8 North — IAH and the north suburbs
- Beltway 8 West — west side and the Energy Corridor
- Beltway 8 South — Hobby Airport and Pearland
- Beltway 8 East — Ship Channel and Pasadena
Grand Parkway / TX-99
- SH-99 West — Fort Bend, Katy, and Cypress
- SH-99 North — Tomball, Spring, and The Woodlands
- SH-99 East — Kingwood, Atascocita, and Mont Belvieu
Tollways and managed lanes
How TranStar works
One operations center. Four agencies. The whole metro.
Houston TranStar coordinates the Texas Department of Transportation, Harris County, METRO, and the City of Houston from a single 24/7 operations center near Memorial Park. Built after Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, it's the model that other major metros studied when they built their own integrated traffic centers.
The public camera feeds let anyone with a browser see the road conditions on every major freeway in the region — including overnight construction zones, post-flood reopenings, and the contraflow lanes during a hurricane evacuation.
Beyond the cameras
The TranStar site is more than camera feeds. Their public dashboard also publishes real-time data on speed, travel time, and incidents — the same information their operations staff use to retime signals and dispatch courtesy patrols.
- Live speed map — color-coded freeway segments updated every two minutes
- Travel time projections — expected drive time between any two interchanges
- Active incidents and construction — lane closures, crashes, debris
- HOV / HOT lane status — current operating hours and tolls
On your phone
Houston TranStar's site is mobile-friendly, so the camera index works fine in a browser. For navigation, Houston commuters rely on Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps — each pulls TranStar incident data as one of its sources, alongside crowdsourced reports. If you need official lane closure data, go straight to TranStar; if you need a route around a backup, the consumer apps are usually faster.