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Maryland Route 36 is a 29.43-mile (47.36 km) state highway located in Allegany County, Maryland. MD 36 runs from its southern terminus at the WV 46 bridge in Westernport to its northern terminus at U.S. Route 40 Alternate near Cumberland. Between Westernport and Frostburg, it is known as Georges Creek Road, and from Frostburg to Cumberland it is known as Mount Savage Road. Like the majority of Maryland state highways, MD 36 is maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSHA). MD 36 serves as the main road through the Georges Creek Valley, a region which is historically known for coal mining, and has been designated by MDSHA as part of the Coal Heritage Scenic Byway. MD 36 is the main road connecting the towns of Westernport, Lonaconing, and Midland in southwestern Allegany County, as well as Frostburg, Mount Savage, and Corriganville in northwestern Allegany County. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ...that in July 2005, signage at the intersection of Massachusetts Route 10 and Massachusetts Route 141 (pictured) identified the routes with Alabama route markers?
- ...that residents of Seattle have disparagingly referred to the Tacoma Spur as "the road to nowhere" and likened its exit ramps to tentacles?
- ...that Interstate 335 was designated in 1987 to allow a portion of the Kansas Turnpike to raise the speed limit to 65 mph (105 km/h) in compliance with a change in the National Maximum Speed Law?
- ...that the North Branch Bridge on Ontario Highway 78 partially collapsed just 17 days after a temporary bridge was opened to facilitate construction of a replacement?
- ...that Arkansas Highway 980 is the state highway designation for all state maintained airport roads in Arkansas?
In the news
- October 10: A section of US 17 / US 92 in Orange City is washed out by the flooding aftermath from Hurricane Milton.
- October 3: Caltrans announces that October 7, they will begin shifting traffic along US 395 to a new bypass of Olancha.
- September 27: Flooding from Hurricane Helene causes extensive damage to several highways in the region including a section of Interstate 40 near the North Carolina–Tennessee state line.
- September 24: The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announces that an ongoing project to retrofit open road tolling on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will include improvements, and a possible rebuild to the interchange with Interstate 70 in Breezewood.
- September 16:Two new sections of Quebec Autoroute 85 near Saint-Honoré-de-Témiscouata open to traffic.
- September 13: NCDOT announces they will sign a freeway bypass around Goldsboro, North Carolina as Interstate 42.
- September 5: KDOT closes the eastbound Lewis and Clark Viaduct, which carries Interstate 70 across the Kansas River for urgent repairs, after bridge inspectors noticed failing gusset plates in the structure.
Ongoing: I-405 expansion (WA), I-695 closure from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
Historic byways
- Oct. 11, 1968 – The Thousand Islands Bypass, which is the final section of Ontario Highway 401 to be completed, opens to traffic between Gananoque and Butternut Bay.
- Oct. 11, 2006 – The Pennsylvania Route 576 toll road opens between PA 60 (now I-376) near the Pittsburgh International Airport and US 22 in Robinson Township
- Oct. 12, 1979 The final section of the Canada to Mexico freeway Interstate 5 is dedicated near Stockton.
- Oct. 12, 2007 – Two trucks collide inside an Interstate 5 truck bypass tunnel at the Newhall Pass interchange in California. The resulting fire engulfs the entire tunnel and destroys 31 vehicles. Three people are killed and ten others are injured.
- Oct. 13, 1984 – The last section of Interstate 40 to be constructed opens to traffic in Williams, Arizona. The section of U.S. Route 66 through Williams is also the last piece of the highway to be bypassed by an Interstate.
- Oct. 13, 1979 – After the Interstate 296 designation in Grand Rapids was found by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to be "a potential source of confusion for motorists", AASHTO approves a request by MDOT to remove all signage and references to the Interstate.
- Oct. 14, 1950 – In Washington state, the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge carrying Primary State Highway 14 over Puget Sound is completed, nearly ten years after the infamous collapse of the first bridge.
- Oct. 14, 1992 The Interstate Highway System is proclaimed to be complete with the opening of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon in Colorado.
- Oct. 15, 1932 – The Bixby Creek Bridge is completed on the Big Sur Coast Highway (SR 1) in California. At the time, its the largest arched highway structure in the western United States.
- Oct. 15, 2021 – The Pennsylvania Route 576 toll road opens between US 22 in Robinson Township and I-79 in Cecil Township
- Oct. 16, 1940 – A dedication ceremony is held at the Peace Arch by the province of British Columbia, marking the completion and opening of the King George VI Highway (also known as British Columbia Highway 99), between the American border and Vancouver.
- Oct. 17, 1974 Nebraska becomes the first state to complete all of its mainline Interstate Highways with the dedication of its final piece of I-80
- Oct. 17, 1989 – The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake causes part of Interstate 880, the Cypress Street Viaduct (pictured), to collapse, killing 42 people.
- Oct. 18, 1928 – The newly completed Seattle–Tacoma Highway in Washington opens to traffic. It later becomes a section of the Pacific Highway and part of U.S. Route 99.
- Oct. 19, 1951 – In Alaska, the Seward Highway is completed between Anchorage and Seward, connecting both municipalities by road for the first time.
- Oct. 20, 1969 – A section of Interstate 70 in Indiana is completed between State Road 46 and State Road 59. This completes all of the Interstate in Indiana outside of the Interstate 465 beltway in Indianapolis.
Selected pictures
A 1948 plan showing San Francisco's trafficways, which would later become the freeways and major streets in the city
A mileage sign along K-99 in Emporia, Kansas. KDOT uses demountable copy for most of its large road signs.
Interstate 287 interchange with the New York State Thruway in Suffern, New York
Interstate 5 curving through Downtown Seattle's skyline
Westbound on Interstate H-3 heading toward Honolulu. Pu'ukahuauli Summit is in the background.
The Pulga bridge along California State Route 70 which crosses the Feather River Route and the Feather River
Puerto Rico Highway 139 southbound in Barrio Maragüez, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The City of Ponce and the Río Portugués channel are in the near background and the Caribbean Sea is in the far background.
The original M-15 (now County Road 492) between Marquette and Negaunee, Michigan, in 1917 showing the first centerline on a state highway
U.S. Highway 30 crossing the Mississippi River at Clinton, Iowa
A 1956 view of M-87 in Fenton, Michigan
The Natchez Trace Parkway extends 444 miles (715 km) through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee
The Alaska Highway under construction in 1942
Overlooking Astoria, Oregon, and the Astoria–Megler Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 101 over the Columbia River
U.S. Route 202 parkway northbound in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania
View north from the south end of U.S. Route 93 Alternate at U.S. Route 93 in Lages Station, Nevada
Maryland Route 36 approaching Mount Savage, with part of the Mount Savage Castle visible in the background
Interstate 70 passing through the San Rafael Swell in central Utah
Puerto Rico Highway 511 in the hills of Barrio Real in Ponce
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