South Carolina Highway 277
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| SC 277 |
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| Length: | 7.5 mi (12.1 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1975-1979 | ||||||||
| South end: |  US 76 in Columbia, |
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| Major junctions: |
 SC 16 near Columbia SC 555 near Columbia I-20 in Dentsville |
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| North end: |  I-77 in Richland County, |
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South Carolina Highway 277 (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.
[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] Exit list
The entire route is in Richland County.
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| Location | Mile | Destinations | Notes |
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| Columbia | 0.0 | US 76 (Elmwood Avenue, Bull Street) |
At-grade |
| 0.7 | Harden Street Extension | At-grade | |
| SC 16 (Sunset Drive, Beltline Boulevard) |
Southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
| SC 555 (Farrow Road) |
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| Dentsville | Fontaine Road | ||
.svg/20px-I-20_(SC).svg.png){kind=small} I-20 east – Florence |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
| I-20 west - Augusta |
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| Parklane Road | |||
| SC 555 (Farrow Road) |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||
.svg/20px-I-77_(SC).svg.png){kind=small} I-77 north - Charlotte |
Northbound exit and southbound entrance |
[edit] History
Conceived as an alternative to Farrow Road (SC 555), 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).
