State Route 194 (SR 194) is a 23.5-mile-long (37.8 km) north–south state highway in Fayette County, Tennessee, connecting Rossville with Braden via Macon and Oakland.
 State Route 194 | ||||
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 SR 194 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by TDOT | ||||
| Length | 23.5 mi (37.8 km) | |||
| Existed | July 1, 1983[1]–present | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| South end |  SR 57 in Rossville | |||
| North end |  SR 59 near Braden | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Tennessee | |||
| Counties | Fayette | |||
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Route description
editSR 194 begins in Rossville at an intersection with SR 57. It heads north to pass through downtown along Church Street before leaving Rossville and crossing the Wolf River. The highway then travels northeast through farmland and rural areas as Rossville Road to pass through Macon, where it has a short concurrency with SR 193 (Macon Road). SR 194 then heads north as Oakland Road to enter Oakland, where it passes through subdivisions and downtown as Church Street to come to an intersection with U.S. Route 64 (US 64; in an unsigned concurrency with SR 15). It then passes through more subdivisions before leaving Oakland to cross the Loosahatchie River. The highway then comes to an end shortly thereafter at an intersection with SR 59, approximately halfway between Braden and Somerville. The entire route of SR 194 is a two-lane highway.[2][3]
Future
editAn extension of SR 194 is planned to serve Ford Motor Company's Blue Oval City manufacturing facility to the north, which will begin operation in 2025. The northern terminus will be with US 70 in Tipton County, and a new interchange on Interstate 40 will be constructed with the extension, numbered exit 39.[4]
Major intersections
edit| County | Location | mi | km | Destinations | Notes |
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| Fayette | Rossville | 0.00 | 0.00 | SR 57 | Southern terminus |
| Macon | 9.0 | 14.5 |   SR 193 east | Southern end of SR 193 concurrency | |
| 9.4 | 15.1 |  SR 193 west | Northern end of SR 193 concurrency | ||
| Oakland | 15.2 | 24.5 |  US 64 (SR 15) – Somerville, Memphis | ||
| | 23.5 | 37.8 | SR 59 | Current northern terminus | |
| |  I-40 – Memphis, Nashville | Future interchange; I-40 exit 39 | |||
| Fayette–Haywood county line | |  SR 468 east (Blue Oval City Connector) | Proposed partial interchange; future western terminus of SR 468 | ||
| Tipton | |   US 70 / US 79 (SR 1) | Future northern terminus | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
edit- ^ "The Road To 100 Years" (PDF). Tennessee Road Builder. Vol. 17, no. 5. September 2014. p. 22. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
- ^ "State Route 194" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- ^ Long Range Planning Division Office of Data Visualization (n.d.). Fayette County (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Nashville: Tennessee Department of Transportation. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
- ^ Wooten, Rya (July 7, 2022). "TDOT set to preview I-40 extension plans for newly coming Blue Oval City Ford plant". WATN-TV. Memphis. Retrieved July 7, 2022.