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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 the Seney Stretch (pictured) along M-28 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is 25 miles (40 km), but "others claim it's 50 miles [80 km], only because it seems longer"?
- ...that most of New Jersey Route 29 was designated as a National Scenic Byway called the Delaware River Scenic Byway in 2009?
- ...that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario–Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
- ...Oregon and Nevada State Route 140 share the same number as they were part of an effort to have a single highway connecting Winnemucca to the Pacific Northwest called the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway"?
- ...that the odds of someone dying on the portion of Interstate 40 in Haywood County, North Carolina are 20 times greater than winning the Powerball lottery?
In the news
- Governor Gretchen Whitmer signs a bill imposing a speed limit of 15 miles per hour along M-185, which was the last highway in Michigan to not have a formal speed limit.
- The Charles Hall Ferry, which connects the two segments of Utah State Route 276, restarts limited service after being closed for 3 years due to low water levels in Lake Powell.
- The Palm and the Pine, a cedar and palm tree next to each other as an unofficial line between Southern and Northern California, will be removed as part of a reconstruction of California State Route 99. Caltrans will plant replacement trees along the new alignment.
- An oversize vehicle strikes a bridge along U.S. Route 6 in Pennsylvania in Troy Township, closing the road until further notice.
- A landslide on Wyoming Highway 22 at Teton Pass causes a part of the roadway to collapse, closing the road.
- The Arizona Department of Transportation completes the reconstruction of a key bridge along Interstate 15 in Arizona in the remote Virgin River Gorge, fully reopening the freeway.
- A truck fire damages a bridge on Interstate 95 in Norwalk, Connecticut, resulting in a freeway closure of over three days.
Ongoing: I-69 Extension (IN), I-405 Expansion (WA), I-695 closure from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
Historic byways
- July 22, 1954 – A section of New York's Quickway is extended from West Windsor to Five Mile Point
- June 22, 1970 – The northernmost section of Interstate 684 is extended south from Katonah to Bedford Corners, absorbing part of the Saw Mill River Parkway
- July 22, 1971 - An extension of New York's Southern Tier Expressway from Howard to the south of Avoca at US 15 is opened
- July 23, 1963 – A section of New York's Quickway is extended from Damascus to McClure
- July 24, 1961 – A section of New York's Penn-Can Highway is extended from Brewerton to Central Square
- July 24, 1968 – The first section of the Keeler Street Expressway is opened north of Rochester from North Goodman Street to the Sea Breeze Expressway
- July 25, 1967 – The southern section of New York's Adirondack Northway is extended with the opening of a three-mile stretch near Keeseville
- July 26, 1958 – A bypass of Liberty, New York from Ferndale to just south of Parksville opens as a section of the Quickway
- July 28, 1932 – The final section of New Jersey Route 4 from Grand Avenue in River Edge to Grand Avenue in Englewood is opened
- July 28, 1983 – New York's Southern Tier Expressway is extended from Stow west to Findley Lake is completed
- June 28, 2001 – The Apalachin-Campville Bridge is opened as NY 962J
- July 29, 1951 – A four-mile bypass of Cape May Court House, New Jersey opens as a disconnected section of the Garden State Parkway, the first in the southern part of the state
- July 29, 1966 – Two new sections of highway are extended from I-287 in New Jersey: from Pluckemin to CR 523 is a new section of I-78, and from I-287's northern terminus at US 206 in Bedminister is an extension to Mount Airy Road in Bernards
- July 30, 1954 – Two extensions of sections of the Garden State Parkway are opened: the bypass of Toms River, New Jersey is extended north from US 9 to the Eatontown Spur (now Route 36), which links the new highway to Route 35, and the northbound section in Middlesex County is extended from New Brunswick Avenue in Woodbridge Township across a new bridge on the Raritan River to US 9 in Sayreville
- July 30, 1959 – Two sections of the Niagara Thruway, one from the Tri-Level Interchange at I-90 to Court Street and the other from Sheridan Drive to the southern Grand Island bridge, are opened
- July 30, 1964 – The remaining sections of the Robert Moses State Parkway south of Lewiston, now the Niagara Scenic Parkway, are opened
- July 30, 1965 – A small bypass of Greene, New York is opened as part of NY 12
- July 31, 1964 – The Atlantic City Expressway opens between NJ 42 in Turnersville and the Garden State Parkway in Egg Harbor Township
- July 31, 2001 – The Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector in Atlantic City, New Jersey opens to traffic
- July 31, 2013 – The I-86 designation is extended along the Southern Tier Expressway from Elmira, New York to Waverly
Selected pictures
Interstate 80 is a major urban freeway though the East Bay, north of the Bay Bridge, in the San Francisco Bay Area (seen here in Berkeley, California).
Northbound, Interstate 15 makes a steep descent from Mountain Pass into the Ivanpah Valley. In the middle distance, the casinos of Primm straddle the freeway right at the Nevada border, while those of Jean are further off, to the left; Las Vegas is immediately on the far side of the hills on the horizon.
The Dalton Highway and the Alaska Pipeline run generally parallel to each other; this segment is between the Arctic Circle and Coldfoot.
Signposts for Nevada's State Route 206 and State Route 207, in front of Jobs Peak of the Carson Range
Hairpin curve on U.S. Route 44 and New York State Route 55 near Gardiner, New York
A view of Interstate 90 in Washington as it passes through Snoqualmie Pass
Looking west over Interstate 235 in Des Moines, Iowa, from the Edna M. Griffin Memorial Bridge
State Route 309 between Kenton and Marion, Ohio
State Highway 103 at Echo Lake in Colorado
M-28 and M-64 near Lake Gogebic
Tree canopy on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut
State Route 123 in Tennessee heading east toward North Carolina
County Highway 98 in Jackson County, Alabama
The western portal of the McClure Tunnel, which connects State Route 1 to the western terminus of Interstate 10 in Santa Monica, California.
Nebraska Link 53C northbound approaching U.S. Route 30 in Bushnell, Nebraska
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