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Aerial image of Delaware Memorial Bridge (left), Wilmington, Delaware (top right), 2012. The Delaware Memorial Bridge is a dual-span suspension bridge crossing the Delaware River. The toll bridges carry Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 40 and is also the link between Delaware and New Jersey.
Construction on an interchange with the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach at Farnhurst began on July 12, 1950. [61] On August 16, 1951, the Delaware Memorial Bridge opened to traffic. [62] US 40 was rerouted to use the new Delaware Memorial Bridge to cross the Delaware River, being realigned to follow US 13 north from Hares Corner to Farnhurst ...
This is a list of bridges, ferries, and other crossings of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay from the Atlantic Ocean upstream to the confluence of the East Branch and West Branch at Hancock, New York. There are no tunnels under the Delaware (excepting utilities), and no dams crossing the full width of its main stem.
Prior to 2019, US 301 in Delaware started at the intersection of U.S. 40 and Delaware Route 896 in Glasgow. The highway was cosigned with DE 896, picking up Delaware Route 71 only three miles south of U.S. 40. Running parallel to US 13 and Delaware Route 1, the highway crossed the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the four-lane Summit Bridge.
The Delaware Memorial Bridge opened in 1951, and US 40 was rerouted north along US 13 before heading east along the bridge approach, with Delaware Route 273 (DE 273) extended east along the former route into New Castle. In 1959, the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach became a part of I-295.
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The Dupont Boulevard transformed the state of Delaware, but just imagine what could have been with a tunnel under the Delaware River. The Dupont Boulevard transformed the state of Delaware, but ...
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.