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U.S. Route 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway System, stretching just over 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from Ocean City, Maryland, on the Atlantic Ocean, to West Sacramento, California, nearly to the Pacific Ocean.
The final gap in the Baltimore–Annapolis Boulevard was filled when the first modern Severn River Bridge was completed in 1924. This 1,850-foot-long (560 m) concrete bridge, which had a roadway width of 22 feet (6.7 m) and a steel bascule draw with a horizontal clearance of 75 feet (23 m), replaced a narrow one-lane bridge.
The final section of the Baltimore–Annapolis Boulevard was completed in 1916 as a 16-foot (4.9 m) wide concrete road from Pumphrey to the Patapsco River. This segment included a 24-foot (7.3 m) wide, 14-foot (4.3 m) high underpass of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway at Pumphrey completed the same year. [9] [12]
MD 3 was routed via the Beltway and the Parkway to divert it from city streets; originally it followed what is now MD 648 (Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard) into Baltimore, meeting Monroe Street within today's interchange between the Parkway and Interstate 95. The current alignment of the route was upgraded to a divided highway as US 301 in 1954.
Between Washington, D.C., and Annapolis, US 50 follows a freeway called the John Hanson Highway, which is designated as unsigned I-595 between the interchanges with I-95/I-495 (the Capital Beltway) in New Carrollton and MD 70 in Annapolis. In Bowie, US 301 becomes concurrent with US 50 and unsigned I-595.
Interstate 195 (I-195) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Maryland.The highway runs 4.35 miles (7.00 km) from I-95 in Arbutus, Baltimore County, east to Maryland Route 170 (MD 170) near the Baltimore/Washington International Airport (BWI Airport) in Linthicum, Anne Arundel County.
View north at the south end of MD 178 at MD 450 in Parole. MD 178 begins at a four-way intersection featuring MD 450 in Parole. MD 450 heads west as Defense Highway and southeast as West Street toward an interchange with U.S. Route 50 (US 50)/US 301 (John Hanson Highway) and Annapolis; the east leg of the intersection is an entrance to the Westfield Annapolis shopping mall.
MD 202B is the designation for the unnamed 0.16-mile (0.26 km) two-lane divided connection between MD 202 and the southbound ramps of the Baltimore–Washington Parkway in Cheverly. The south leg of the four-way intersection formed by MD 202B and the parkway ramps is Mercy Lane, which leads to Prince George's Hospital Center.