US-9/DE-404 Truck: Georgetown Area

This video covers the Phase 1 Park Avenue Relocation project in Georgetown, which involves the realignment of the US-9/DE-404 Truck route along the south side of the town.

[@rwboa22]

Many moons ago, if Delaware had the foresight of population growth south and west of New Castle County, they could have developed an extension of the Delaware Route 1 Turnpike (except that it would parallel US Route 113 south of Milford) and developed an east-west "Sussex County Turnpike" using Delaware Route 404 (become a MD Route 404 expressway to US Route 50 near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge) and US Route 9 (which would hypothetically, connect to US Route 9 and the GSP via a Delaware Bay version of either the Chesapeake Bay Bridge or Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel).

[@roadwaysofdelaware]

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.