Virginia State Route 169
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| State Route 169 |
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| Length: | 7.05 mi[1] (11.35 km) | ||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1933 | ||||||||||||
| West end: |  SR 143 in Phoebus |
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| Major junctions: |
 SR 351 at Buckroe Beach |
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| North end: |  US 258 in Hampton |
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State Route 169 is a primary state highway in Hampton, Virginia, United States. It begins in the former town of Phoebus at the intersection of Mellen Street (State Route 143) and Mallory Street (SR 169) and heads northeast on Mallory Street to Buckroe Beach. There it turns west on Pembroke Avenue (State Route 351), splitting to the north at Old Buckroe Road. SR 169 turns west on Fox Hill Road, curving southwest to end at Mercury Boulevard (U.S. Route 258) several blocks east of King Street (State Route 278).
[edit] History
The road from State Route 9 (now State Route 143), at the intersection of County and Mallory Streets in Phoebus, northeast along Mallory Street (then the Mill Creek Road) to the intersection of Point Comfort Avenue and Resort Boulevard at Buckroe Beach, was added to the state highway system in 1923[2] as State Route 394 (a spur of State Route 39, renumbered from SR 9). In the 1928 renumbering, SR 394 became State Route 512, and in the 1933 renumbering it became State Route 169.
In 1934, a loop at Buckroe Beach was added to SR 169, running north on Resort Boulevard, west on Buckroe Avenue, and south on Mallory Street.[3] In addition to this loop, SR 169 was extended north and west from Buckroe Beach in 1966, running west on State Route 351 (Pembroke Avenue) and then replacing part of what had been State Route 167 on Old Buckroe Road and Fox Hill Road, ending at State Route 278 (King Street) just north of U.S. Route 258 (Mercury Boulevard).[4] The loop was removed in 1975, leaving only the Mallory Street-Pembroke Alignment at Buckroe Beach.[5] Fox Hill Road has since been realigned to meet US 258 east of SR 278.
At the Phoebus end, SR 169 was extended southwest along Mallory Street to Mellen Street, a single block extra, in 1979, due to a realignment of State Route 143.[6] SR 169 has never extended further along Mallory Street to Interstate 64 near the Veterans Administration, despite Hampton rquesting said extension in 1948[7] and this extension being signed on I-64.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ 2005 Virginia Department of Transportation Jurisdiction Report - Daily Traffic Volume Estimates - Elizabeth City Maintenance AreaPDF
- ^ Minutes of the Nineth (sic) Meeting of the State Highway Commission Held on March 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, 1923PDF, page 19
- ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission of Virginia, Held in Richmond, September 19, 1934PDF
- ^ Minutes of Meeting of State Highway Commission, Luray, Virginia, October 13, 1966PDF, pages 47-49
- ^ Minutes of Meeting of State Highway and Transportation Commission, Richmond, Virginia, August 21, 1975PDF, pages 16 and 17
- ^ Minutes of Meeting of State Highway and Transportation Commission, Richmond, Virginia, March 15, 1979PDF, pages 38 and 39
- ^ Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission Held in Richmond, Va., March 23, 1948PDF, page 12
- ^ Virginia State Highway Endings: Virginia Highway 169
| < SR 393 | Spurs of SR 39 1923-1928 |
SR 395 > |
| < SR 511 | District 5 State Routes 1928-1933 |
SR 513 > |
