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The Delaware State Highway Department (DSHD) was created on April 2, 1917 to construct and maintain a system of state highways across Delaware. As a result, the state took over construction of the DuPont Highway. [1] The DuPont Highway was completed in 1923 when the final section near Odessa was finished. [37]
In 1930 and again in 1932, the Delaware State Highway Department recommended giving numbers to state roads to supplement the existing U.S. Highway System. [2] [3] By 1936, Delaware began assigning numbers to state routes. [4] In 1956, the Interstate Highway System was created, with under 40 miles of Interstate highway legislated in New Castle ...
Delaware road map is a template that generates a reference for an official road map of Delaware produced by the Delaware State Highway Department, the Delaware Department of Highways and Transportation, or the Delaware Department of Transportation.
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 ...
The Kings Highway portion of the current route was paved by 1931. [15] When Delaware assigned numbers to its state highways by 1936, DE 28 was designated to run from US 13 (Central Avenue) in Laurel east to DE 18 in Georgetown while the road between Georgetown and Lewes became a part of DE 18. [11]
I-295 begins at I-95, I-495, US 202, and DE 141 near Newport, Delaware, and heads east over the Delaware River on the Delaware Memorial Bridge into New Jersey.The highway intersects the southern terminus of the New Jersey Turnpike and runs northeast through suburban areas of South Jersey parallel to the turnpike, providing a bypass of Philadelphia and Camden.
[12] [13] All of the route was a state highway by 1931 except the portion from Hares Corner to the Basin Road intersection in New Castle. [13] In 1931, work began on widening US 40 along the US 13 concurrency to a divided highway. [14] The completion of the divided highway between State Road and Wilmington was slated for summer 1933. [15]
Delaware Route 71 (DE 71) is a state highway in New Castle County, Delaware. The route runs from U.S. Route 13 (US 13) south of Townsend north to another intersection with US 13 in Tybouts Corner , traveling to the west of US 13 by way of Townsend, Middletown , and the Summit Bridge .