Vermont Route 127
State highway in Chittenden County, Vermont, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vermont Route 127 (VT 127) is a state highway in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. It currently exists in two segments: a signed, locally maintained portion in the city of Burlington and the town of Colchester, and an unsigned, state-maintained portion within the town of Colchester. The southern terminus of the signed segment is at Pearl Street in downtown Burlington. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 2 and U.S. Route 7 in Colchester. The unsigned segment is little more than the southern leg of a wye connection between US 2 / US 7 and VT 2A.
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Maintained by VTrans, the City of Burlington and the Town of Colchester | ||||
Length | 10.08 mi (16.22 km) | |||
Existed | Early 1940s[3][4]–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | Pearl Street in Burlington | |||
Major intersections | US 2 / US 7 in Colchester US 2 / US 7 in Colchester | |||
North end | VT 2A in Colchester | |||
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Country | United States | |||
State | Vermont | |||
Counties | Chittenden | |||
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VT 127 was assigned in the early 1940s as a loop route off US 2 and US 7 through Burlington and southern Colchester, where it ended at the junction of Bay Road and US 2 / US 7. It was extended slightly eastward to VT 2A in 1950. The majority of the route in Burlington was moved onto a new limited-access highway—named the Winooski Valley Parkway and also known as the Burlington Beltline—in the 1970s and 1980s. A later realignment in Colchester moved the signed northern terminus of VT 127 to the junction of Blakely/Severance Road and US 2 / US 7; however, the portion of VT 127 added in 1950 was left unchanged. As a result, the route now exists in two segments.