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U.S. Route 113 extends 75 miles (121 km) from US 13 in Pocomoke City, Maryland, north to Delaware Route 1 in Milford. The highway, which until 2003 reconnected with US 13 in Dover, Delaware, serves the Maryland towns of Snow Hill and Berlin and the Delaware towns of Selbyville, Millsboro, and Georgetown. It follows the corridor of a post road established in the late 18th century. The route was improved as an all-weather road in the 1910s. The Delaware portion of the route, including the former designation from Milford to Dover, was built by Thomas Coleman DuPont's company as the DuPont Highway, the first sections of which were completed on May 24, 1917. DuPont foresaw that traffic on highways would approach the speed and volume of railroads, so he designed the highway with a wide right of way and curves and grades adequate for high speed traffic. The DuPont Highway was one of the earliest roads built with bypasses, roads that passed close to towns but not directly through them. US 113 was widened and reconstructed in the 1930s and 1940s, including a bypass of Dover. The route was expanded to a divided highway starting in the 1950s. (Full article...)

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...a landmark along I-290 in Massachusetts, is an inflatable polar bear, the mascot of Polar Beverages?
...that despite Billings, Montana and Rapid City, South Dakota being connected by I-90, US 212 and SD 34 is a more direct and potentially faster connection between them?
...that I-585 in South Carolina doesn't connect to any other Interstates?
...that the founder of the American film company A24 decided to create the company while driving on A24 in Italy?
...the Nevada portion of U.S. Route 50 was called the Loneliest Road in America (pictured) by Life magazine?

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March 17: The newly tolled Belle Chasse Bridge, along Louisiana Highway 23, opened to traffic. The bridge replaced the Belle Chasse Tunnel and Judge Perez Bridge fully.
March 11: A 29-kilometer (18 mi) freeway realignment of Road 24 near Maragheh, Iran opens to traffic.
March 7: The Namibian presidency officially announces the opening of the Dr. Hifikepunye Pohamba Freeway connecting the B2 in Swakopmund to C14 in Walvis Bay.
March 1: Interstate 40 at the Tennessee/North Carolina border partially re-opens after extensive damage from Hurricane Helene.
February 20: Interstate 80 in New Jersey will remain closed indefinitely after a second sinkhole forms in the same location as a recently repaired sink hole.
February 16: The Philippine Government announces the Philippine expressway network will switch to RFID based cashless tolling effective March 15.
February 14: A fatal accident and explosion inside the Green River Tunnel along Interstate 80 in Wyoming is believed to have caused structural damage to the tunnel.

Ongoing: I-695 closure from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse

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Historic byways

March 23, 1917 - the Nevada Department of Highways, predecessor to today's Nevada Department of Transportation is formed.
March 26, 2024 - the main span of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, carrying I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed after a container ship strikes a pier.
March 28, 1976 – Albany, New York's Northside Route is completed as it is extended from US 9/20 in Schodack to the Berkshire Connector.
March 28, 2008 – The I-86 designation is extended from Horseheads to NY 352 in Elmira.

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Interstate 90 in Wallace, Idaho, site of one of the final traffic lights to be removed from I-90
Interstate 90 in Wallace, Idaho, site of one of the final traffic lights to be removed from I-90
U.S. Route 9W in the town of Cornwall, New York, as seen from the summit of Butter Hill
Interstate 70 in Colorado in Glenwood Canyon
A sign gantry removed from its normal position above Interstate 35 in Norman, Oklahoma, and lying in the right-of-way between the Interstate and its service road; the support which the sign is typically mounted on is visible in the background.
North Carolina Highway 147 passing through downtown Durham viewed from the Fayetteville St overpass
A view of the Golden Gate Bridge during a foggy day
Delaware Route 52 in the Brandywine Valley north of Wilmington
Interstate 440 in Nashville, Tennessee
U.S. Route 201 along the Kennebec River near Bingham, Maine
U.S. Route 74 in Charlotte, North Carolina
The Lincoln Highway Bridge along the historic Lincoln Highway in Tama, Iowa
New York State Route 421 in the fall
Running alongside M-6 south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Frederik Meijer Trail connects to other trails in the area.
Utah State Route 12 approaching Bryce Canyon National Park
U.S. Route 13 crossing the Chesapeake Bay on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel in Virginia
Interstate 84 eastbound approaching Mountain Home, Idaho

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