State Highway 170 (SH 170), also known as the Alliance Gateway Freeway, is a Texas state highway in the northern suburbs of

Fort Worth Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...

in the

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area. The highway was designated in 1988.

History

Previous route

A previous route numbered SH 170 was designated on August 3, 1932, as a connector route from the

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state line west to US 60 and US 83 near

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. This route was renumbered SH 33 on October 26, 1954, to coincide with OK 33, with which it connects.

Current route

The current SH 170 was designated in 1988. Construction of an interchange at SH 114 began in 2016.

Proposed tollway

The

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(NTTA) planned to build tolled main lanes by 2015 and will extend the highway west to US 287/ US 81, and, eventually, ultimately to extend it to the Jacksboro Highway ( SH 199), but it did not occur. TxDOT and the NTTA held a public hearing in Roanoke about the proposed toll road on February 26, 2015. The tollway is proposed to have six main lanes.

Major intersections

References

External links

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