US Route 301 in Maryland is the main highway that runs from Delaware to the Governor of Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge to Virginia. Passes through three of Maryland's four main areas: the East Coast, the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, and Southern Maryland. US 301 serves primarily as a bypass of Baltimore and Washington from Delaware to Virginia.
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Route description
US 301 is the Blue Star Memorial Highway for its entire length in Maryland. The Federation Garden Club of Maryland announced the US Highway as a Blue Star Memorial Highway in honor of the US Armed Forces in 1948, and a 1953 resolution signed by Governor William Preston Lane, Jr., was officially dedicated to US 301 as such. The main name of the highway from the Potomac River to Bowie is Robert Crain Highway. Robert Crain is a farmer and Charles County lawyer who spearheaded the construction of a new highway to directly connect Baltimore and Southern Maryland which was completed in 1927. Along the concurrence with US 50 and unsigned I-595 from Bowie to the Severn River, USA 301 followed John Hanson Highway. The freeway was named for John Hanson, the first President of the Continental Congress in 1781.
The short section of US 301 is included among some Scenic Byways Maryland. US 301 is part of Freedom Freedom Byway, from MD 257 to MD 234 near Newburg and from Popes Creek Road at Faulkner to Chapel Point Road in Bel Alton in south Charles County. The freeway is also the National Scenic Byway, the Religious Freedom Byway. US 301 is included in Booth's Escape Scenic Byway from Potomac River to Edge Hill Road in Newburg, from Popes Creek Road in Faulkner to Bel Alton Newtown Road in Bel Alton, and along concurrency with MD 5 from Waldorf to Brandywine. U.S. Highway is part of the Spangled Banner Star-Spangled Scenic byway from MD 382 in Marlton to MD 725 in Upper Marlboro.
US 301 is almost entirely maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration. Exceptions include the Governor of Harry W. The Nice Bridge crossing the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay Bridge crossing the Chesapeake Bay and roads approach the bridge and toll plaza respectively, run by the Maryland Transportation Authority. US 301 is part of the National Highway System for its entire length.
Newburg to Bowie
US 301 entered Maryland in the Virginia state line on the right bank of the Potomac River near Dahlgren in King George County, Virginia, from where the US Highway continued toward Bowling Green and Richmond. The highway crosses the Potomac River at the Governor of Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, a continuous two-lane truss bridge. US 301 extends to a four-lane highway to the east of the toll plaza going south and a bridge to the north of Morgantown Power Station. The highway parallels Subes Creek Popes Creek on a curve from east to north through the Newburg community. US 301 passes through the welcome center and has crossover crossroads with MD 257 (Stone Point Road). The highway turns northwest at the intersection of the intersection with MD 234 (The Way of Budds Creek) in the hamlet of Glasva, then turns north again between Faulkner and Bel Alton, from which Chapel Point Road leads west to Chapel Point State Park.
US 301 drove through the hamlet of Spring Hill just before entering the town of La Plata, the county district of County Charles. The highway passes west of downtown and cuts MD 6, which leads east like Charles Street and west as Port Tobacco Road, and MD 225 (Hawthorne Road). US 301 leaves La Plata on Rosewick Road and gradually curves northeast to White Plains. There, the highway meets the eastern end of MD 227 (Marshall Corner Road), passes near the eastern end of the Indian Head Rail Trail, and cuts Billingsley Road, which leads to the southern end of MD 925 (Old Washington Road). US 301 extended to six lanes near Smallwood Drive when the highway passed the St. The planned Charles, which contains St. shopping malls. Charles Towne Center. The highway continues through the Waldorf unrelated city, where the highway meets the eastern end of MD 228 (Berry Road) and MD 5 Business (Leonardtown Road).
At the northern end of the Waldorf, US 301 has a partial intersection with MD 5 (Mattawoman Beantown Road); access from north of MD 5 to south US 301 is via Mattawoman Drive. Two highways turned north and crossed the Mattawoman River into Prince George's County. The highway is temporarily getting an extra lane as it passes north of the county line, where the highway crosses Timothy Branch. US 301 and MD 5 diverge at the partial intersection at Brandywine, from where MD 5 continues north along Branch Avenue to Washington and US 301 down into four lanes. US 301 curved to the northeast and cuts Brandywine Road, which heads east through Brandywine center as MD 381. Brandywine Road to the west provides access from southern US 301 to north of MD 5 and from south of MD 5 to 30 US Northern US 301 head through community of Cheltenham and Rosaryville, where the highway passes through the east side of Rosaryville State Park. The highway continues through Marlton, where it crosses Charles Branch and meets the northern end of MD 382 (Croom Road).
The Old Crain Highway separates north from US 301 when the highway approaches Upper Marlboro, the county area of ​​Prince George's County. The US Highway veers off north and cuts off the Pope's Whale rail line and crosses the Western Patuxent River Branch south of the clover junction with MD 4 (Stephanie Roper Highway). US 301 meets the east end of MD 725 (Marlboro Pike) east of Upper Marlboro. The highway continues north and reaches a wide median at the southern end of Bowie town. There, the US Highway cut Old Central Avenue, which is part of MD 978, and has a six-way intersection with MD 214 (Central Avenue). Movement from north US 301 eastward of MD 214 and from MD east 214 to south US 301 is done through Old Central Avenue (MD 978B not signed). The US 301 follows the border of the eastern city of Bowie and spans six lanes south of its intersection with MD 197 (Collington Road). The US Highway briefly enters the town of Bowie just south of the clover junction with US 50 (John Hanson Highway) and MD 3, which heads north along Robert Crain Highway while US 301 leads east along with US 50 and unsigned I-595.
Bowie to Queenstown
US 301 and US 50 head east along John Hanson Highway, a six-lane highway, across the Patuxent River toward Anne Arundel County. The highway has an intersection with MD 424 in North Davidsonville and the southern end of I-97 in Parole. US 301 and US 50 pass to northern Annapolis, accessed by exchange with MD 665, MD 450, MD 2, and MD 70. The appointment of I-595 ended at the intersection of MD 70. MD 2 joined the US Highway along the highway for across the Severn River. MD 2 separates north of the US Highway at a public intersection with the eastern end of MD 450, where the name of the toll road turns into a Blue Star Memorial Highway. US 301 and US 50 met with MD 179 near Cape St. Claire and past Sandy Point State Park just before the highway using the two-lane Chesapeake Bay Bridge to cross the Chesapeake Bay. US 301 and US 50 met MD 8 on Kent Island in Queen Anne's County. The six-lane highway is parallel to MD 18 and has many right-in/right-out junctions with local walks as it passes through Stevensville and Chester. US 301 and US 50 parallel MD 18 along the Kent Narrows to the mainland of the Delmarva Peninsula, then the highway continues through more right-in/right-out exchanges in Grasonville before the US Highway diverges in Queenstown.
Queenstown to Warwick
US 301 reduces to a highway non-highway highway with a speed limit of 55 miles per hour (89 km/h) at a partial junction with US 50 (Ocean Gateway). The highway passes along the edge of Queenstown, where the highway meets MD 18 (Main Street) and MD 456 (Del Rhodes Avenue) on a pair of superstreet intersections. Access from southern US 301 eastwards US 50 and from west 50 US to north US 301 is via MD 18 at Queenstown Premium Outlets. US 301 gradually curved northeast as it passed south and east of Centerville, the county seat of Queen Anne County. The highway has a half-way overlap intersection with MD 213 (Centreville Road) to the south of the city and a halter junction with MD 304 (Ruthsburg Road) to the north of the Mill Stream Branch. US 301 has a skewed incident at the branch level of Centerville's Northern Line Maryland and Delaware Railroad branches. The highway is parallel to the railroads through intersections with MD 305 (Hope Road) in Carville and MD 834 which is not signed (Hayden Clark Road), where the median is temporarily widened for the Bay Country Welcome Center.
US 301 deviates from the railroad at its intersection with MD 405 (Price Station Road) at Price. The US highway continues north through intersections with MD 19 (Roberts Station Road) and west end of MD 302 (Barclay Road) and superstreet junction with MD 300 (Sudlersville Road). US 301 has an overlapping four-foot partial clover with MD 290 (Dudley Corner Road) just south of the Red Lion Branch. U.S. Highway has a superstreet intersection with MD 544 (McGinnes Road) on the west end of the highway at MD 313 and just south of the Unicorn Branch. 301 US across the Chester River to Kent County west of Millington. The highway continues through an indirect junction with MD 291 (River Road); access to MD 291 is via side ramps with two unsigned sections of MD 701, which parallel the north and south sides of US 301 as Howard Johnson Road and Edge Road, respectively.
The US 301 has a railway line at the intersection with the Chestertown Branch of the North Line of Maryland and the Delaware Railroad to the west of the North Line branch intersection at Massey. In the north of the railway, the US highway has a superstreet junction with MD 313 (Galena Massey Road) in southern Galena. US 301 has a diamond crossing with MD 290 (Galena Sassafras Road) before crossing the Sassafras River to Cecil County to the west of Sassafras. The highway meets the northern end of MD 299 (Massey Sassafras Road), where there is a weigh station in the south, and passes to south Warwick. US 301 reduced up to two lanes shortly before reaching the Maryland-Delaware line of state. U.S. Highway continue north-east toward New Castle County to Middletown and Newark.
Maps U.S. Route 301 in Maryland
History
In 1940, the settlement of the Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge marked the entry of US 301 to Maryland. A short link between the north end of the bridge and MD 3 produced most of the last route taken over by US 301, with only a small part remaining signed as MD 3 (this section is now MD 257).
Initially, the route goes all the way along the former MD 3 to Baltimore and ends near the current Route Route 295 Russell Street route. Like the US 301, it was upgraded to four and six-lane highways split throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, the route was diverted along 50 US to the Eastern Shore where it broke away from US50 and diverted from there onto Maryland DelDare to Delaware. Today, Route 301 is a multi-lane highway along its path through the country with the exception of Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge Bridge; nine miles (14 km) of MD 3 between US50 and Interstate 97 is also a four and six-lane highway and is part of the same sustainable physical route.
The highway segment between the eastern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the US separation of 50/US 301 in Queenstown was originally built as four lanes on a separate highway. In the late 1980s, traffic levels were so high that the route was upgraded to a limited six-lane access point separated, with most intersections converted into right-in/right-out exchanges, and some converted into a more standardized arrangement. The route upgrade was completed in the early 1990s.
The US 50/301 conclusion on the East Coast includes the withdrawal of four routes connecting Kent Island to the mainland; upgrades from 4 lanes to 6 lanes including US 50/301 rerouting to the high-level fixed range to the north there, with the current drawspan being used for MD 18. Further north, where US 301 runs by itself as four limited access points, reached MD 213 on the traffic signal which was the last full traffic signal north of 301 US in Maryland, but the signal was later replaced by the current exchange there.
The Maryland Department of Transportation built a halter intersection to replace the superstreet crossing with MD 304. The exchange project built a bridge that brought the MD 304 over US 301. This exchange was a major transportation priority for the Queen Anne District for many years and encouraged by the students. at Queen Anne's County High School after a student at school was killed in an accident at a crossroads in 2010. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on September 23, 2014, with some of the Queen Anne District commissioners and representatives of the state governments in attendance. The exchange opened to traffic on August 15, 2017.
Next development
- The Maryland Transport Authority has been studying the Governor of Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River since about 2006, and has identified a preferred alternative that involves replacing the current two lanes with a new bridge with four lanes, shoulders and a new two-way bike and pedestrian path.
- As the route enters Delaware, it becomes a two-lane path. However, there are plans to replace US Route 301 in Delaware with a toll road that will connect US 301 shared in Maryland with Delaware Route 1, providing a multi-lane alternative to Interstate 95 between Northern Delaware and Washington, D.C.
- A group known as the East Shoreway Alliance is trying to get 301 from Queenstown to the redesigned Delaware line as the Eastern Shoreway [1], similar to the US Gateway's US Gateway 50 to the south.
List of intersections
See also
- Maryland Street Portal
References
External links
- 301 AS @ MDRoads.com
- Maryland Royal Transportation Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge Improvement Project
- US. Route 301 Projects in Delaware
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