South Carolina Highway 277

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SC 277
Length:	7.5 mi (12.1 km)
Formed:	1975-1979
South end:	US 76 in Columbia,
Major junctions:	SC 16 near Columbia SC 555 near Columbia I-20 in Dentsville
North end:	I-77 in Richland County,
South Carolina highways < US 276 US 278 >

South Carolina Highway 277 (abbreviated S.C. Highway 277 or SC 277) is a state highway in the U.S. state of South Carolina that runs 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from I-77 (Exit 18) between Killian and Dentsville in Richland County to US 76 (Elmwood Avenue) in downtown Columbia. For most of its length, it is a controlled access freeway (motorway) conforming to interstate standards that serves as a spur into Columbia from its northeastern suburbs and from intercity traffic traveling from I-77 and I-20. The freeway portion of SC 277 is called the Northeastern Freeway or I. DeQuincey Newman Freeway while the 0.7 (1.1 km) miles of surface street is part of Bull Street.

Contents 1 Route description 2 Major intersections 3 Exit list 4 History

[edit] Route description

From the south, SC 277 has unnumbered interchanges with South Carolina Highway 16 (Sunset Drive - access to northbound SC 277 and from southbound SC 277 only), South Carolina Highway 555 (Farrow Road), S-40-218 (Fontaine Road), I-20 (no access from westbound I-20 to northbound SC 277), S-40-1036 (Parklane Road), and I-77 (northbound access to I-77 and southbound access from I-77 only).

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
Richland	Columbia	0.0	US 76 Bull Street/Elmwood Avenue	Southern terminus of SC 277.
		0.7	Harden Street Extension
Begin freeway.

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

[edit] Exit list

All exits do not have exit numbers.

County	Location	Mile	Destinations	Notes
Richland	Columbia		SC 16
			SC 555 (Farrow Road)
	Dentsville		Fontaine Road
			I-20	No access from I-20 west to SC 277 north, and vice versa
			Parklane Road
			I-77	No access from I-77 north to SC 277 south, and vice versa
Traffic merges onto north.

[edit] History

SC 277 was completed and opened in stages between 1975 and 1979 from Columbia northward. Until the 1990s, SC 277 terminated just south of its interchange with SC 16 (the beginning of the freeway) and the surface street section (Bull Street) was numbered P-4001. Planners originally intended for the SC 277 to continue westward from an unbuilt Bull Street interchange to I-126 west of US 21/US 176/US 321 (Huger Street) and the south along the Congaree River. The South Carolina Department of Transportation acquired right-of-way for some of the extension but the project was cancelled in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the SC 277 was extended southward along Bull Street to its current terminus at US 76 replacing P-4001.

SC 277 was also applied to another route from 1941-42 until 1948 between SC 215 and the current US 321 in northern Richland County. It is now S-40-38 (Camp Ground Road).