Tennessee State Route 177

State Route 177 (SR 177) is a secondary state highway in Shelby County, Tennessee. The majority of the route is known as Germantown Road and Germantown Parkway.

State Route 177
Germantown Road Germantown Parkway West Street
SR 177 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by TDOT
Length	13.11 mi[1] (21.10 km)
Existed	July 1, 1983[2]–present
Major junctions
South end	Winchester Rd in Memphis
Major intersections	US 72 / SR 57 in Germantown I-40 in Memphis US 64 in Bartlett
North end	US 70 / US 79 in Bartlett
Location
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
Counties	Shelby
Highway system
Tennessee State Routes Interstate US State
← SR 176 → SR 178

Route description

SR 177 starts in southeast Memphis on Winchester Road near SR 385 (Bill Morris Parkway) with a speed limit of 40 MPH. From there it runs north through the city of Germantown with a speed limit of 35 until it intersects with US 72/SR 57 where the speed limit rises to 40. It then crosses the Wolf River where the speed limit rises to 45 and passes back into Memphis through the Cordova community. SR 177 later intersects I-40 (Exit 16) near the Wolfchase Galleria. SR 177 crosses US 64/SR 15 (Stage Road) in Bartlett, before terminating as a state route at US 70/US 79/SR 1. Germantown Road continues north until Old Brownsville Road near the Brunswick community.

Beginning at the US 72/SR 57 intersection, SR 177 turns from a two-lane road into a six-lane highway, and continues in this form through to its north terminus, and from the Wolf River bridge until the I-40 junction, the road is six-lane and has 10-foot-wide (3.0 m) paved outside shoulders on both sides, which only occasionally give way to a fourth lane or a right-turn lane. It also has a grassed median from the Wolf River to US 64. North of I-40 until US 64, the road has 4 lanes in each direction. North of US 64 until the route terminates, the road has 3 lanes in each direction.

History

Prior to 1990, SR 177 was two lanes throughout its length. After 1990, the route was expanded into its current form from US 72/SR 57 to the I-40 – US 64 area. In the late 1990s, it was expanded to its current form between US 64 to US 70/US 79. Germantown Parkway, as it is known locally, has seen significant commercial and residential development starting in the 1990s, including the establishment of restaurants, hotels, planned communities, and the Wolfchase Galleria. North of US 64, however, little new development has taken place besides the addition of a few residential subdivisions, a school, and a Walgreens near US 70/US 79.

The speed limit between the Wolf River and I-40 was 50 miles per hour until 2014 when the city of Memphis lowered it to 45 MPH, possibly due to increasing traffic counts.

Future

Construction to widen a portion of SR 177 from Stout Road to Crestridge Road to 5 lanes has been completed. Also, the portion of SR 177 that overlaps Poplar Avenue was modified in 2013 to allow for two left turn lanes at both the Poplar/West St and Poplar/Germantown Pkwy intersections. This is to complement the new two left turn lanes at Germantown and Farmington.

Junction list

The entire route is in Shelby County.

Location	mi[3]	km	Destinations	Notes
Memphis	0.00	0.00	Winchester Road to SR 385 (Bill Morris Parkway) – Memphis, Collierville	Southern terminus
Germantown	3.01	4.84	US 72 / SR 57 (Poplar Avenue) – Collierville, Memphis
Memphis			Walnut Grove Road	Single-point urban interchange
	10.04	16.16	I-40 – Memphis, Nashville	I-40 exit 16
Bartlett	10.83	17.43	US 64 (Stage Road/SR 15) – Bartlett, Raleigh, Oakland, Somerville
	13.13	21.13	US 70 / US 79 (SR 1) – Memphis, Arlington, Brownsville	Northern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

United States portal U.S. Roads portal

References

Template:Attached KML/Tennessee State Route 177

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1. TDOT Region 4 Pavement Condition Data
2. "The Road To 100 Years" (PDF). Tennessee Road Builder. Vol. 17, no. 5. September 2014. p. 22. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
3. retrieved from Delorme Street Atlas USA