Extensions Studied
In the 1970s, DelDOT studied a plan to rebuild US 13 into a so-called "Dover Extension" that would connect the main highway with the state capital with a high-speed roadway. Local opposition, especially farmers, killed the original Dover Extension project but it would be resurrected in the 1980s and would become the Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway (signed as Delaware Route 1, DE 1), which was completed by DelDOT in 2003.
Another extension, using most of the original Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Delaware Memorial Bridge route and signed as US 301, would have used what is now DE 896 between Newark and Summit Bridge and a new right-of-way parallel to, but west of DE 896 between Summit Bridge and the present-day US 301 highway in Maryland. Despite the high hopes of this US 301 extension being built (the Summit Bridge itself and its approaches, completed in 1960, were built to highway standards), local opposition forced DelDOT to abandon its plans for the US 301 extension in the 1990s, resurrecting it in 2006 as the planned relocation of US 301 that will connect the present-day US 301 highway in Maryland with the DE 1 Turnpike near St. Georges, Delaware.
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