Texas State Highway 170 Explained

State:TX
Type:SH
Route:170
Alternate Name:Alliance Gateway Freeway
Map Custom:yes
Map Notes:SH 170 highlighted in red
Length Mi:6.516
Length Round:3
Established:1988
Direction A:West
Direction B:East
Terminus A: in Fort Worth
Junction: in Fort Worth
Terminus B: in Westlake
Counties:Tarrant, Denton
Previous Type:SH
Previous Route:169
Next Type:SH
Next Route:171

State Highway 170 (SH 170), also known as the Alliance Gateway Freeway, is a Texas state highway in the northern suburbs of Fort Worth in the Alliance 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 Oklahoma state line west to US 60 and US 83 near Canadian.[1] 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.[2]

TxDOT and the NTTA held a public hearing in Roanoke about the proposed toll road on February 26, 2015. The tollway was proposed to have six main lanes.[3] The main lanes between I-35W and SH 114 opened to traffic on March 18, 2024.[4]

Proposed Tollway

The North Texas Tollway Authority (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.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: January 29, 2018 . August 2, 1932 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180129141101/https://publicdocs.txdot.gov/minord/MinuteOrderDocLib/003673820.pdf . Minutes . publicdocs.txdot.gov . . 30 April 2023 . en-us . live .
  2. Web site: KXAS-TV. Cokely. Kevin. Traffic Bottlenecks Along Texas 114 Getting Relief. September 13, 2016. January 25, 2018.
  3. Web site: NTTA. Driving North Texas. TxDOT Public Hearing Looks at SH 170, in Coordination with NTTA. January 26, 2015. January 25, 2018.
  4. News: Moore-Carrillo . Jaime . This long-anticipated highway in far north Fort Worth finally opens its new lanes . March 21, 2024 . . . March 18, 2024.
  5. Web site: Staff. NTTA. State Highway 170 Major study. April 2, 2012.