Four-laning of US 87 from Canyon to Lubbock was completed in the late 1960s, with the last section to be widened lying between Abernathy and Lubbock. While this was built as a surface divided highway south of Canyon, short sections of freeway were built through New Deal, Abernathy, and Hale Center, and interchanges were built at U.S. Highway 70 and State Highway 194 on the new bypass of Plainview and at State Highway 86 (towards the west) south of Tulia. The original two-lane road, where bypassed, became Loop 461 (New Deal, 1968, marked as US 87 Business), Loop 369 (Abernathy, 1962), a local street (Hale Center), and Loop 445 (Plainview, 1967, marked as US 87 Business).