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On November 15, 1963, the turnpike opened to traffic. [55] The Delaware Turnpike allowed motorists to travel from Washington, D.C. to Boston without having to stop at a traffic light. [56] In 1968, I-95 was completed between the Delaware Turnpike and the Pennsylvania border. [57] The I-495 bypass to the east of Wilmington fully opened in 1977. [58]
The Delaware Department of Transportation is responsible for maintaining numbered roads in Delaware. State routes in Delaware use the circular highway shield. Delaware's numbering system mirrors that of U.S. Highways in that odd numbered highways travel north-south and even numbered routes go east-west.
Interstate 95 (I-95) is an Interstate Highway running along the East Coast of the United States from Miami, Florida, north to the Canadian border in Houlton, Maine.In the state of Delaware, the route runs for 23.43 miles (37.71 km) across the Wilmington area in northern New Castle County from the Maryland state line near Newark northeast to the Pennsylvania state line in Claymont.
US 202 in Delaware has an annual average daily traffic count ranging from a high of 118,720 vehicles at the south end of Wilmington along the I-95 concurrency to a low of 30,643 vehicles at the intersection with Augustine Cut-Off between I-95 and DE 141/DE 261. [1] The entire length of US 202 in Delaware is part of the National Highway System.
Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) is the longest numbered state highway in the U.S. state of Delaware.The route runs 102.63 mi (165.17 km) from the Maryland state line in Fenwick Island, Sussex County, where the road continues south into that state as Maryland Route 528 (MD 528), north to an interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95) in Christiana, New Castle County, where the roadway continues north as part ...
Delaware Route 202 (DE 202), also known as Concord Avenue, is a short state highway mostly within Wilmington, Delaware. It runs from U.S. Route 13 Business (US 13 Bus., North Market Street) north to a modified cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95) and US 202 just beyond the northern city limits.
In 1970, US 13 was moved to its current alignment between Wilmington and Claymont on a bypass built in the 1930s. The portion of US 13 between Dover and Wilmington saw heavy traffic heading to the Delaware Beaches in the summer, which led to the construction of a freeway "Relief Route" parallel to US 13. This freeway was built as DE 1, which ...
U.S. Route 301 (US 301) is a US Highway running from Sarasota, Florida, north to Biddles Corner, Delaware.In the state of Delaware, the route runs 11.9 mi (19.2 km) across New Castle County from the Maryland state line southwest of Middletown northeast to its northern terminus at the Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) freeway in Biddles Corner, just south of the Senator William V. Roth Jr. Bridge that ...