Route
See also: Maryland Route 355From the Georgetown riverfront, Wisconsin Avenue climbs steeply north through Northwest D.C. (see picture above), through often congested, slow-moving traffic squeezed into just two travel lanes, with parked vehicles continuously filling both curb lanes. The Avenue then passes through the neighborhoods of Glover Park, Cathedral Heights (next to the Washington National Cathedral), Cleveland Park, Tenleytown and Friendship Heights with its several broadcasting towers. While in Friendship Heights, Wisconsin Avenue intersects with Western Avenue (which forms much of the Northwest border of Washington, D.C.) and then crosses into Montgomery County, Maryland. In Maryland, it is officially known as Maryland Route 355. Wisconsin Avenue then passes through Bethesda, where it is one of the main streets of the downtown area. Southbound traffic on Wisconsin Avenue can bypass downtown Bethesda by taking Woodmont Avenue.
Just north of downtown Bethesda, at the intersection with Glenbrook Parkway, its name changes to "Rockville Pike". Rockville Pike runs along the National Institutes of Health campus, the United States National Library of Medicine, and the National Naval Medical Center and has an incomplete interchange with the Capital Beltway at exit 34. The Pike then runs through North Bethesda into Rockville, which is the county seat of Montgomery County. This part of Rockville Pike is home to many strip malls, as well as White Flint Mall, and is notorious for its traffic congestion.
Near the center of Rockville, the name changes to "Hungerford Drive" for a short while. In the outskirts of Rockville, the name changes to "Frederick Road". However, in the city of Gaithersburg, the road is known as South Frederick Avenue south of Diamond Avenue in downtown, and North Frederick Avenue north of Diamond Avenue. Upon leaving Gaithersburg city limits, the name returns to Frederick Road, which continues through the unincorporated communities of Germantown and Clarksburg, both rapidly developing suburbs. Upon entering Frederick County and the unincorporated community of Urbana, the road is known as "Urbana Pike". It ends at U.S. Highway 15, just north of the city of Frederick, which is the county seat. In downtown Frederick, the route is known as "Market Street".
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Famous quotes containing the word route:
“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an eidolon, named Night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule—
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of space—out of time.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“The route through childhood is shaped by many forces, and it differs for each of us. Our biological inheritance, the temperament with which we are born, the care we receive, our family relationships, the place where we grow up, the schools we attend, the culture in which we participate, and the historical period in which we live—all these affect the paths we take through childhood and condition the remainder of our lives.”
—Robert H. Wozniak (20th century)