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Route information; Maintained by TDOT: Length: 6.8 mi (10.9 km) Existed: July 1, 1983 [1] –present: Major junctions; South end: US 51 near Memphis: North end: Great River Road (Locke–Cuba Road) near Shelby Forest
The northern segment, combined with I-269, serves as a partial outer beltway around Memphis, and the southern segment serves as a spur route between the city and its southeastern suburbs, and is notable for its almost-exclusive use of single-point urban interchanges (SPUIs). The highway that is now SR 385 was originally envisioned in the 1960s.
US 61 at the Mississippi State Line in Memphis: I-55 in Memphis; US 61 / US 64 / US 70 / US 79 (E.H. Crump Blvd.) in Memphis; I-40 in Memphis; US 51 (Thomas Street) in Memphis; I-40 / Future I-69 / I-240 in Memphis; I-40 / I-240 in Memphis; Future I-269 (Barret Pkwy.) / SR 385 near Rosemark; North end: SR 54 near Covington: Location; Country
The two places where US 51 and SR 3 differ are in Memphis, where US 51 has been moved to Danny Thomas Boulevard (State Route 1 / State Route 4), while SR 3 remains on the one-way pair of 2nd and 3rd Streets, and in South Fulton, where US 51 crosses the state line on State Route 215 to I-69, while SR 3 remains on the old road, now U.S. Route 45. [1]
From I-55, US 79 continues to follow US 61/64/70 on E.H. Crump Boulevard.US 64/70/79 then turns north onto Danny Thomas Boulevard northward, then it makes a right turn onto Union Avenue, where US 51 gets involved in the concurrency until Bellevue Boulevard.
Memphis is the subject of numerous pop and country songs, including "The Memphis Blues" by W. C. Handy, "Memphis, Tennessee" by Chuck Berry, "Night Train to Memphis" by Roy Acuff, "Goin' to Memphis" by Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Queen of Memphis" by Confederate Railroad, "Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis, "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam ...
The Main Street Line is a line of the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system. It began operations in 1993, becoming the first streetcar line to operate in Memphis since 1947. [ 3 ] It runs for about 2 mi (3.2 km) along Main Street, with 14 stops in Downtown Memphis .
U.S. Route 70 (US 70) enters the state of Tennessee from Arkansas via the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, and runs west to east across 21 counties in all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee, with a total length of 478.48 miles (770.04 km), to end at the North Carolina state line in eastern Cocke County.