U.S. Route 175
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| U.S. Route 175 |
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| Length: | 111.0 mi[1] (178.6 km) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Formed: | 1932 | ||||||||||||||||
| West end: |  I-45 in Dallas |
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| East end: |  US 69 in Jacksonville |
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U.S. Highway 175 is an east-west United States highway. It comes very close to meeting its "parent", US 75, but decommissioning and rerouting in downtown Dallas, Texas bring it a couple of miles short. Before the decommissioning of US 75 south of downtown Dallas in favor of Interstate 45, US 175 met its "parent" US 75. The highway's eastern terminus is in Jacksonville, Texas at an intersection with US 69. Its western terminus is in Dallas, Texas at Interstate 45.
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[edit] Route description
US 175 begins in Dallas at an interchange with I-45, the Central Expressway and the Good-Latimer Expressway. The highway heads towards the southeast as a freeway carrying the dual monikers of South Central Expressway and SM Wright Freeway (the latter named for a local minister and community leader in South Dallas).
At an interchange with SH 310, US 175 begins to head to the east (taking the name C.F. Hawn Freeway, named after a Texas Highway commissioner who lived in Athens) while the South Central Expressway and SM Wright Freeway names follow SH 310. The freeway continues east along the north edge of Rochester Park until it turns back to the southeast at an interchange at 2nd Avenue (from this point US 175 maintains a consistent southeasterly direction).
US 175 passes through the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas to an interchange with I-20 just southwest of the I-20 and I-635 interchange. The highway continues as a freeway past the I-20 interchange and passes through the cities of Seagoville, Crandall and Kaufman. After passing through Kaufman, US 175 is no longer a freeway and continues as a divided highway. The highway bypasses Kemp to the east and passes near the north end of Cedar Creek Reservoir. East of the reservoir, the highway passes through Mabank before merging into a 2-lane highway (though construction as of 2008 is underway to widen the road to a divided highway status). As it continues to the southeast, US 175 passes through Eustace on its way to Athens.
In Athens, US 175 passes around the city while the old highway passes through the center as a business route. Outside the city limits the business and bypass sections rejoin, passing through the cities of Poynor, Frankston and Cuney before reaching Jacksonville, where it reaches its eastern terminus at US 69.[2]
In late 2006, work began on a 14.5-mile segment from Mabank to Athens to extend the divided highway further eastward. As of February 2008, most of the bridges on the twin segment had been constructed and grading work was nearing completion.
[edit] Exit list
| Destinations | Notes |
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 I-45 north to US 75 – McKinney |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| Central Expressway, Good-Latimer Expressway | Northbound exit and southbound entrance |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard | |
| Pennsylvania Avenue | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance |
| Metropolitan Avenue | |
| Pine Street | |
| Hatcher Street | |
 SH 310 south (Central Expressway) |
No westbound exit |
| Bexar Street | No eastbound entrance |
| Railroad Avenue | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance |
| Municipal Street | Eastbound exit and entrance |
| 2nd Avenue, Bruton Road | |
| Lake June Road | |
| Frontage Road | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance |
| Jim Miller Road | Westbound exit is via the Elam Road exit |
| Elam Road | |
 Loop 12 (Buckner Boulevard) |
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| Frontage Road | |
| St. Augustine Road | |
| Masters Drive | |
| Haymarket Road, Kleberg Road | No eastbound entrance |
  I-20 / I-635 north – Fort Worth |
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| Silverado Drive | |
| Edd Road | |
| Belt Line Road | |
| Woody Road | Westbound exit is via the Stark Road exit |
| Stark Road | |
| Simonds Road, Kimberly Drive | |
| Seagoville Road, Kaufman Street | |
| Hall Street | |
| Malloy Bridge Road | |
 FM 1389 – Combine |
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 FM 741 – Forney |
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 FM 148 – Crandall |
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| County Road | |
 FM 1390 |
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 FM 2578 |
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| Frontage Road | |
 SH 243 – Kaufman, Canton |
No eastbound entrance |
 FM 1388 – Oak Grove |
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 SH 34 – Kaufman, Ennis |
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| Frontage Road |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Texas Department of Transportation. Highway Designation File - U.S. Highway No. 175. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
- ^ Google Maps. Overview map of US 175 [map]. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.
