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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 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]
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]
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 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 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 ...
Delaware Route 2 (DE 2) is a 10.81-mile-long (17.40 km) east–west state highway located in the northern part of New Castle County in the U.S. state of Delaware.It runs from DE 72 and DE 273 on the eastern edge of Newark east to DE 52 in Wilmington.
US 40 in Delaware has an annual average daily traffic count ranging from a high of 107,176 vehicles at the DE 9 interchange along the I-295 concurrency to a low of 25,863 vehicles at the Appleby Road intersection between Bear and New Castle. [1] The entire length of US 40 in Delaware is part of the National Highway System. [5]