Video linked below!

US 301 was mysteriously moved at Mt. Pleasant from the southern leg of DE 896 (running east-west toward US 13) to the northern leg (running straight up toward Pennsylvania). It will return to being on an east-west corridor if a proposed freeway to DE 1 is constructed. Instead of heading into US 13 in Odessa, allowing northbound traffic to continue toward Philadelphia (on 13) and New Jersey (along US 301's natural continuation of US 130), 301 now ends awkwardly at US 40 basically in the middle of nowhere, while still multiplexed with 896. (Whether by US 13 or US 40, US 301 used to extend to where those routes met I-295 and the Delaware Memorial Bridge approach, but now has been truncated off much of its useless plexing habit.)


Why so narrow? Why so off-center? Maybe it's the same reason that this is a one-piece sign!, on US 301 southbound, about to gain a triplex for a short stretch. DE 299 multiplexes southwest to almost the Maryland border, but MD 299 no longer rises to meet it.


The southern end of the long multiplex, complete with decapitated shield number and a rogue Maryland shield. Earth to DelDOT - the detour to MD 286 is in fact DE 286 - I understand the reason to keep the detour signed consistently, but a little more pride by the DOT in its own routes couldn't hurt. (Actually, it's DE 15 that begins to the right, and then DE 286 begins from there.)


Southbound across the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on the Summit Bridge, which carries DE 71, DE 896, and now US 301 as well. Now, drive the C-D Bridge! (Southbound.)


US 40 WB at the beginning of US 301, not TO 301, ACTUAL 301.

Onto DE 896 alone

Onto DE 299
Onto DE 15
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