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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]
The Delaware State Highway Department recommended that DE 9 along the Delaware Bay and Delaware River be designated a scenic highway as far back as 1965. In 2007, the Route 9 Coastal Heritage Byway was nominated and designated as a Delaware Scenic and Historic Highway. [10] By 2017, the byway was extended south from the Dover area to Lewes. [11]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The department's responsibilities include maintaining 89 percent of the state's public roadways (the Delaware State Route System) totaling 13,507 lane miles, snow removal, overseeing the "Adopt-A-Highway" program, overseeing E-ZPass Delaware, the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), and the Delaware Transit Corporation (known as DART First State). [2]
Delaware Route 1B; Delaware Route 1D; Delaware Route 2; Delaware Route 3; Delaware Route 4; Delaware Route 5; Delaware Route 5 Alternate; Delaware Route 6; Delaware Route 7; Delaware Route 8; Delaware Route 9; Delaware Route 9 Truck; Delaware Route 9A; Delaware Route 10; Delaware Route 10 Alternate; Delaware Route 11; Delaware Route 12 ...
By 1920, what would become the Delaware portion of US 40 was a county road, with the portion along US 13 under contract to become a state highway. [6] The section of US 40 along the Dupont Highway was completed by 1923. [7] The Pulaski Highway portion of the road was built as a state highway by 1924. [8]