Provincial Highway 74 (Taiwan)

Provincial Highway 74
Provincial Highway 74

Provincial Highway 74 (Chinese: 台74線) is an expressway around Taichung City, which starts at Kuaiguan IC. (快官交流道) of National Highway No. 3 in Changhua City and ends at Wufeng IC. (霧峰交流道) of National Highway No. 3 in Taichung City. It is commonly known as Zhong-zhang (Taichung-Changhua; 中彰) Expressway.

Length

Main line

The total length of main line is 39.235 km. The route between Kuaiguan IC. and Zhongqing Rd. was opened to public on May 5, 2002. Afterward, the east section between Songzhu Rd. and Wufeng IC. was opened to public on December 31, 2011. The route between Zhongqing Rd. and Chongde Rd. was opened to traffic on December 31,2013.

Branch Line

There is a branch line (Provincial Highway No. 74A, Chinese: 台74甲線) from the western end of Provincial Highway No. 74 (Kuaiguan IC.) to connect the Provincial Highway No. 1 in Huatan, Changhua. Its length is 10.5 km.

Major Cities Along the Route

Exit list

CountyLocationkm[1]miExitNameDestinationsNotes
ChanghuaChanghua0.0000.0000Kuaiguan Fwy. 3 Nantou, Hemei
PH 74A south
Roadway continues as PH 74A
Taichung CityWuri1.6501.0251ChenggongWuri
Nantun4.0002.4854HSR Taichung THSR Taichung Station
5.5003.4185Nantun 1Section 4, Huanzhong RoadEastbound exit and westbound entrance
7.1404.4377Nantun 2 CR 136 (Wuquan West Road)
Xitun8.9005.5308Xitun 1Shizheng Road
10.0006.21410Xitun 2Chaoma Road / Qinghai Road
10.9406.79811Xitun 3Xitun Road
13.0008.07813Beitun 1 PH 1B (Zhongqing Road) / CR 127 (Guangfu Road)
Beitun14.3208.89814Beitun 2Songzhu Road
16.98710.55516ChongdeChongde Road
Tanzi18.84711.71118Tanzi PH 3 (Zhongshan Road) Tanzi District
Fwy. 4Planned interchange
Beitun22.75014.13622SongzhuSection 1, Songzhu Road / Dongshan Road
24.41115.16824TaiyuanTaiyuan Road
TaipingEast
district line
26.93516.73726TaipingZhongshan Road, Leye Road, Dongshan Road Taiping District
Dali30.13718.72630Dali 1Defang South Road, Zhenxing Road, Taiping Road
32.85420.41532Dali 2 To PH 63 (Zhongtou Highway)Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Wufeng39.23524.37937Wufeng Fwy. 3 to Fwy. 6 – Caotun, Wuri
PH 3 Wufeng
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Intersections with other Freeways and Expressways

Notes

The original plan has a western section between Changhua Coastal Industrial Park and Hemei IC. of National Highway No. 3 in Hemei, Changhua. The exact route has now been constructed and named as Provincial Highway No. 61B. It was opened to public on October 15, 2011.

See also

References

  1. "Expressway Mileage Chart" (XLS FILE) (in Chinese). Directorate General of Highways. Retrieved 13 June 2014.

External links

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