U.S. Route 77

Infobox U.S. Route
article_route=77

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length_mi=1,305Droz, Robert V. [http://www.us-highways.com/usbt.htm U.S. Highways : From US 1 to (US 830)] . URL accessed 22:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC).]
length_km=2100.2
yrcom=1926
direction_a=South
direction_b=North
from=
junction=Jct|state=TX|I|37 near Corpus Christi, TX
Jct|state=TX|I|10 at Schulenburg, TX
Jct|state=TX|I|35 near Waco, TX
Jct|state=TX|I|35E at Red Oak, TX
Jct|state=TX|I|20|I|35E at Dallas, TX
Jct|state=OK|I|40 at Oklahoma City, OK
Jct|state=OK|I|44 at Oklahoma City, OK
Jct|state=KS|I|35 at El Dorado, KS
Jct|state=KS|I|70 at Junction City, KS
Jct|state=NE|I|80 at Lincoln, NE
to=Jct|state=IA|I|29|US-Bus|20|dab2=Sioux City|IA|12 at Sioux City, IA

U.S. Route 77 is a north-south United States highway. It is unsigned in and around Dallas, Texas. Its historic segment through South Dakota and Minnesota was decommissioned with the advent of Interstate 29 but otherwise the route has been spared the decommissioning that has shortened other US highways. The route has major freeway sections in Oklahoma City including the Broadway Extension connecting suburban Edmond to downtown Oklahoma City.

As of 2005, the highway's northern terminus is in Sioux City, Iowa at an interchange with Interstate 29. Its southern terminus is in Brownsville, Texas, at Veteran's International Bridge on the U.S.-Mexico border, where it connects with Mexican Federal Highway 180. [http://www.geocities.com/usend7079/End077/end077.htm Endpoints of US highways] ]

Route description

Texas

The section between the Oklahoma-Texas state line and Waco, Texas is mostly co-located with Interstate 35 and the 35E spur through Dallas, Texas and, where it is co-located, it is not signed.

The two stretches in Texas that are not co-located are a stretch wholly within the city of Denton and a longer stretch from near Red Oak, to Hillsboro, the reason being that US 77 is a separate road between the two, serving the town of Waxahachie.

As of 2004, US 77 Alternate has a northern terminus in Hallettsville, Texas. It rejoins US 77 at Refugio, Texas. While the main line of US 77 passes through Victoria, Alternate US 77 veers to the west to serve Yoakum and Cuero.

Oklahoma

In Oklahoma, U.S. Route 77 runs north-south, paralleling Interstate 35, connecting Texas to Kansas and running for convert|268|mi|km through the central part of the state. It passes through many major cities, including Ardmore, Oklahoma City and its suburbs, Guthrie, and Ponca City. It has a freeway section, the Broadway Extension, in Edmond.

Kansas

US-77 runs for exactly convert|234|mi|km in Kansas. Between the US-40 junction and the Cowley County line is designated as a Blue Star Memorial Highway. In Cowley County, it is the Robert B. Docking Memorial Highway. Near Arkansas City it is the Walnut Valley Greenway.Kennedy, Richie. [http://www.route56.com/highways/highways.cgi?hwy1=77 Kansas Highways Routelog] . "Route56". URL accessed March 6 2007.]

From Nebraska to US-24 and from K-15 to Arkansas City, it is part of the National Highway System.

Nebraska

In Nebraska, U.S. 77 is a major north-south artery connecting the capital city of Lincoln with outlying areas to the north and south. The highway is designated as the Homestead Expressway from Beatrice to Interstate 80 at Lincoln. North of Interstate 80, U.S. 77 continues as an expressway to Wahoo, where it becomes a two-lane undivided road. It remains a two-lane highway except for two sections near Fremont, which are four-lane divided highways. The expressway north of Fremont is shared with U.S. Route 275 and Nebraska Highway 91. U.S. 275 and NE 91 separate from U.S. 77 just south of Winslow, Nebraska and U.S. 77 continues north as a two-lane highway until it meets U.S. Route 75 at Winnebago. The two highways run together to the junction of Interstate 129 and U.S. Route 20 at Dakota City, where U.S. 75 breaks off and U.S. 77 continues northward as a divided highway through South Sioux City before exiting the state.

Iowa

U.S. 77 barely enters Iowa. After crossing the Missouri River at Sioux City, the highway ends at its junction with Interstate 29. Its total length in Iowa is less than one-half mile. [Hancock, Jason. [http://iowahighways.home.mchsi.com/highways/otherus.html#77 US 77] at the Iowa Highways Page. Accessed 6 March 2006.]

History

U.S. 77 previously extended north through South Dakota to Ortonville, Minnesota. It followed the current Interstate 29 corridor up to the Toronto, South Dakota area, and then followed current South Dakota Highway 15 north to Milbank, South Dakota. After reaching Milbank, it went east in a concurrency with U.S. Route 12 to Ortonville, where it ended at U.S. Route 75. Portions of the old highway in the Sioux Falls area exist today as South Dakota Highway 115.

ee also

Related U.S. Routes

* U.S. Route 177
* U.S. Route 277
* U.S. Route 377

Bannered and suffexed routes

* U.S. Route 77 Alternate

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