No, it's extremely rare I use old footage. This video was on Saturday 8/3/24 around 11:00am.

@@roadwaysofdelaware I was joking with my comment. I have lived in Maryland my entire life. I avoid the BW-Parkway like I avoid the plague. It's a crap shoot almost always backed up, or stop and go..

@@joehawk9839 I feel like a weekend wouldn't be as terrible at least. Bear in mind that I live in Dover, DE, so coming back home, we had to sit in traffic for 40 minutes just to get on the Bay Bridge. As an aside, I have a spreadsheet tracking each of my videos. Comparing to real time, my average speed on this video was 50.1 MPH. I specifically wanted to take the B-W Parkway, because when I was a kid, my father took the B-W Parkway on the way to DC when we went there in 2003. I hadn't been on it in many, many years. If only the mount on my dashcam didn't have problems on this trip and my footage could have come out better... I tried several methods of stabilization (FFmpeg's vidstab library and fiddling with Cinelerra's motion filters), but nothing came out all that great...

Thanks Uncle Tom! I just wish the video came out better...I'll need to head back there some time.

I did some research last summer at the DE Public Archives and they had some far reaching plans back in the 50s and 60s. I don't think they expected the population to explode like it did though. This is my article on some of what I found: ianpeters.org/roads/deroute1.html I've been curious about how development of higher capacity highways on seasonal coastal routes (e.g. DE/MD-404, NJ-55/47/347, US-13/113) can be justified, especially since traffic can be very minimal in the off season as compared to the summer (I'm honestly of the belief that the completion of NJ-55 isn't economically feasible, I certainly don't think it's feasible for a Delaware Bay Bridge Tunnel...I found a study from the 80s that described why). That's a research project I'm in the midst of.

I have a video of Dover to Assateague that basically covers that. On that subject, since I live in Dover, I wouldn't do any video that covers the whole length of DE-1 in one trip, as that wouldn't make sense for me.

The traffic wasn't that bad actually. We drove up and back the same day without issue. Traffic was heavy but it was moving the whole way. Yeah the tolls are ridiculous anymore, that's why I diverted from the NJTP to I-295. I'd normally shunpike the higher Roth Bridge toll on a weekend, but I was too tired to deal with the extra stoplights. I did shunpike the higher Dover toll though.

Yeah I've covered that area in the past, in my videos of DE-9. We decided to turn onto DE-1 from DE-72, since the rain looked pretty bad and I didn't want to get stuck on a flooded portion of DE-9, especially the section that runs right along the Delaware River through the Augustine Beach area.

@@roadwaysofdelaware I totally understand, but I was asking if you noticed that you could see Delaware City's refinery in distance when traveling down the hill on Possum Park Rd?

@@MrJon92as Oh sorry, now I understand your comment. I don't recall if we saw the refinery this time when we were heading down the hill on DE-72, but I used to live in Newark (I did my masters at UD) and I think I remember seeing it or the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the distance when I drove DE-72 regularly in the past. I do know, on clear days, that you can see the refinery and the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the distance at the top of the hill at the Newark Reservoir Park.

@@roadwaysofdelaware I'm not sure if you're able to see the Delaware Memorial Bridge from Possum Park Rd, but you can see the bridge when driving down the hill on Limestone Rd (which is where the northern terminus of DE-72 is funny enough). Also, can you see the Wilmington skyline from the Newark Reservoir Park as well? And the Roth Bridge?

Yeah. If you're familiar with the grade separation they did at Bowers Beach Road about 5 years ago, this one is being done in a similar manner. DE-1 will be constructed to overpass DE-16.

makes sense.

Last Saturday, 7/15/23.

Interesting to know. 🧐