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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...)
Did you know ...
- ...that nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska (pictured) to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
- ...that Interstate 285 roughly forms the boundary between area code 404 serving the center of Atlanta and area code 770 serving the outlying areas?
- ...that Washington State Route 432 ends at an intersection with Interstate 5 nicknamed the Longview Wye, despite being located in the neighboring city of Kelso?
- ...that Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance?
- ...that Manitoba Provincial Road 394 is the farthest north in the province?
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. 21, 1963 – Interstate 196 and the associated Business Spur Interstate 196 in Muskegon, Michigan are both redesignated as an extension Interstate 96 and Business Spur Interstate 96, respectively.
- Oct. 22, 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act into law, restricting the use of outdoor advertisements on federally funded highways.
- October 22, 1971 – The gap in New York's Quickway between Randolph and Steamburg is closed
- October 22, 1990 – The dual-dual setup of the New Jersey Turnpike is extended south from exit 9 in East Brunswick Township to exit 8A in Monroe Township
- Oct. 23, 2015 – During a ceremony marking the completion of an interchange on U.S. Route 78 with Interstate 269 in Byhalia, Mississippi, Interstate 22 is officially signed and commissioned between Byhalia and Birmingham, Alabama.
- Oct. 23 & Oct. 24, 1973 – Low visibility from poor environmental conditions caused by burning garbage, made worse by late night fog, cause a series of fatal car accidents on the New Jersey Turnpike in Kearny. Nine people are killed with thirty-nine others being injured.
- Oct. 24, 1949 – Construction begins on the western extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Irwin to the Ohio state line, following a groundbreaking ceremony attended by Governor James H. Duff.
- Oct. 25, 1967 – Interstate 105 is completed between Interstate 5 and U.S. Route 126 in Eugene, Oregon, after being dedicated by Governor Tom McCall.
- Oct. 26, 1925 – The Joint Board on Interstate Highways submits the first complete proposal of the United States Numbered Highway System to Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine.
- Oct. 27, 1978 – The AASHTO approves the Interstate 580 designation along the U.S. Route 395 corridor between Reno and Carson City. The Interstate won't be signed until 2012.
- Oct. 28, 1940 – Construction begins on the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel (pictured) between Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. World War II delays its completion until 1950.
- Oct. 29, 1982 – The final section of Interstate 82 is opened to traffic during a dedication ceremony between Granger and Grandview in Washington state.
- Oct. 30, 2012 – California State Route 78 is rerouted onto a four-lane bypass around Brawley between State Route 86 and State Route 111, named the "Victor E. Veysey Expressway".
- Oct. 31, 1913 – The Lincoln Highway is officially dedicated by the Lincoln Highway Association, followed by shooting off fireworks and large public celebrations being held in all 13 states served by the auto trail.
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