The RN177 is a trunk road ( nationale) in

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linking Pont-l'Évêque and

Trouville-sur-Mer Trouville-sur-Mer (, literally ''Trouville on Sea''), commonly referred to as Trouville, is a city of 4,603 inhabitants in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Trouville-sur-Mer borders Deauville across the R ...

. The road is in fact a section of the former RN834. The RN177 was until the 1972 reclassification scheme a link between Villers-Bocage and

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. The old RN177 was declassified into RD577 in

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, RD977 in

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. The RN177 has since 2006 been declassified into the RD677. In a strange move by the Calvados DDE, drivers wishing to reach Deauville and the Côte Fleurie are advise not to use the trunk road but to use the single carriageway RD27A that follows a similar course along the

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railway line. Weekend tourists are often caught in

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s on the A132 while wanting to join the RN177 as well as at

Bonneville-sur-Touques Bonneville-sur-Touques (, ''Bonneville on Touques'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France, located four kilometres from the urban agglomeration Deauville- Trouville. The commune is principally fa ...

roundabout where several départementales converge. It is also at that location that the gendarmerie sets up speed cameras and alcohol control.

Route

The road is bypassed by the A132 between Pont-l'Évêque and Canapville where the RN177 crosses several départementales and two

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s. The section between the

roundabout (where it meets the RD17 to Caen) and

is a dual carriageway. The RN177 ends at a roundabout next to the

gare de Trouville-Deauville Trouville-Deauville is the station for the towns of Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer, Normandy. The station is built in neo-normand architecture and is a terminus for two railway lines, the main line from Paris by Lisieux and the Côte Fleurie bran ...

where it meets the RD513. It traverses the following communes: * Pont-l'Évêque * Coudray-Rabut * Canapville * Touques *

References

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