U.S. Route 202 in Delaware: Difference between revisions

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*{{jct|state=DE|DE|37}} near Wilmington Manor

*{{jct|state=DE|DE|4|DE|9}} in [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]

*{{jct|state=DE|DE|52}} in Wilmington

*{{jct|state=DE|DE|92}} in [[Brandywine, Delaware|Brandywine]]

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==Route description==

The Wilmington and Great Valley Turnpike Company was chartered on January&nbsp;23,&nbsp;1811 to build a [[toll road|turnpike]] running north from Wilmington along the Concord road, continuing to [[West Chester, Pennsylvania|West Chester]] and [[Great Valley, Pennsylvania|Great Valley]] in Pennsylvania. Construction on the turnpike progressed throughout the 1810s.<ref name=history>{{cite book|last=Scharf|first=John Thomas|access-date=January 6, 2012|title=History of Delaware : 1609-1888, Volume 1|year=1888|publisher=L.J. Richards & Co.|location=[[Philadelphia]]|page=418|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wd5AAAAMAAJ&q=concord+pike&pg=PA418}}</ref> The Wilmington and Great Valley Turnpike was known in Delaware as the Concord Pike.<ref name=charter>{{cite book|access-date=January 6, 2012|title=The charter of the city of Wilmington|year=1911|publisher=[[Wilmington, Delaware|City of Wilmington]]|location=Wilmington, DE|page=1058|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wuMtAAAAYAAJ&q=wilmington+and+great+valley+turnpike+concord&pg=PA1058}}</ref> The Concord Pike was taken over by New Castle County in 1911, at which point the tolls were removed.<ref name=guide>{{cite book|author=Delaware Federal Writers Project|access-date=January 8, 2012|title=Delaware: a guide to the first state|year=1955|publisher=The Viking Press|location=[[New York City]]|page=422|isbn=9781603540087|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ5OeFvqWRAC&q=kennett+turnpike+1919&pg=PA422}}</ref> A portion of the Concord Pike near Talleyville was incorporated into the state highway system by 1920, with the remainder of the road proposed to become a state highway.<ref name="DE 1920 map">{{Delaware road map|year=1920|access-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref> By 1924, the Concord Pike between Blue Ball and Talleyville was a state highway, with the remainder remaining a county road.<ref name="DE 1924 map">{{Delaware road map|year=1924|access-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref> A year later, what is now US&nbsp;202 along Basin Road was completed as a state highway.<ref name="DE 1925 map">{{Delaware road map|year=1925|access-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref> When the [[US Highway System]] was established in 1926, US&nbsp;122 was designated to follow the Concord Pike between US&nbsp;13 (Philadelphia Pike) in Wilmington and the Pennsylvania state line, heading north into that state and continuing to [[U.S. Route 22 in New Jersey|US&nbsp;22]] at [[Whitehouse, New Jersey]].<ref name="USHM">{{cite map |author1= [[Bureau of Public Roads]] |author2= [[American Association of State Highway Officials]] |date= November 11, 1926 |title= United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url= https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg |scale= 1:7,000,000 |location= Washington, DC |publisher= [[United States Geological Survey]] |oclc= 32889555 |access-date= November 7, 2013 |via= [[Wikimedia Commons]] |name-list-style= amp}}</ref><ref name="DE 1931 map">{{Delaware road map|year=1931|access-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref>

 

In 1934, US&nbsp;122 was redesignated US&nbsp;202. Also at this time, US&nbsp;202 was realigned in Wilmington to head southwest from Concord Avenue onto Baynard Boulevard, splitting into a [[one-way pair]] following Washington Street southbound and West Street northbound as it passed through downtown Wilmington. In this area, US&nbsp;202 turned east onto Front Street to an intersection with US&nbsp;13. From here, US&nbsp;202 headed south concurrent with US&nbsp;13 to an intersection with US&nbsp;13 and US&nbsp;40 in [[State Road, Delaware|State Road]].<ref name=fhwa202>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us202.cfm|title=U.S. 202 - Maine to Delaware - General Highway History - Highway History - Federal Highway Administration|website=www.fhwa.dot.gov|access-date=August 26, 2019}}</ref><ref name="DE 1936 map">{{Delaware road map|year=1936|access-date=November 24, 2015}}</ref> On July 1, 1935, the portion of the route between Talleyville and the Pennsylvania state line was taken over by the state.<ref name="DE 1936 map"/><ref name="1935 report">{{cite journal|title=Annual Report of the State Highway Department of the State of Delaware|edition=1935|page=7|publisher=Delaware State Highway Department|location=Dover, DE|date=January 7, 1936|url=http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/annual_reports/pdf/1935/annual_1935_chief.pdf|access-date=November 19, 2014}}</ref> In 1941, the portion of US&nbsp;202 along Baynard Boulevard and from Talleyville to the Pennsylvania state line was reconstructed.<ref name="1940 report">{{cite journal|title=Annual Report of the State Highway Department|edition=1940|page=31|publisher=Delaware State Highway Department|location=Dover, Delaware|date=January 1, 1941|url=http://www.deldot.gov/archaeology/historic_pres/annual_reports/pdf/1940/annual_1940_chief.pdf|access-date=November 12, 2014}}</ref>

 

In December&nbsp;2011, a project began to improve the interchange between I-95 and US&nbsp;202/DE&nbsp;202 in order to reduce congestion. The project widened the ramp between northbound I-95 and northbound US&nbsp;202 to two lanes, the ramp between southbound US&nbsp;202 and southbound I-95 was extended to modern standards, and the ramp between southbound I-95 and southbound DE&nbsp;202 was relocated from a cloverleaf loop to a directional ramp that intersects DE&nbsp;202 at a signalized intersection. In addition, the interchange ramps were repaved and bridges were rehabilitated. The project was finished in July&nbsp;2015, months behind schedule due to the closure of I-495 in 2014. On August&nbsp;7,&nbsp;2015, a dedication ceremony to mark the completion of the project was held, with Governor [[Jack Markell]], Senator [[Tom Carper]], and DelDOT secretary Jennifer Cohan in attendance. The project, which cost over $33 million, was 80-percent funded by the federal government.<ref>{{cite press release|title=I-95 and U.S. Route 202 Interchange Project Completion Ceremony|publisher=Delaware Department of Transportation|date=August 7, 2015|url=http://www.deldot.gov/home/newsroom/release.shtml?id=5646|access-date=August 8, 2015}}</ref>

 

 

==Major intersections==

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==See also==

*{{Portal-inline|U.S. Roads}}

[[Category:U.S. Route 202| Delaware]]

[[Category:Transportation in New Castle County, Delaware]]