Talk:List of Maryland state highways

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[edit] Naming conventions

According to [1] it's the State Highway System, but everything is a State Route or numbered route. Routes are apparently referred to as MD X. (Google search for MD 140 vs. Route 140) I propose "MD X" as the name for articles. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 06:16, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Page 2 of that document refers to them as "state highways", however. Also, I've always understood them to be officially known as state highways. As for the individual names, "MD X" is an abbreviation. Expanded they are "Maryland X" (as indicated on the route markers). The SHA likes to abbreviate apparently. I'd support renaming the articles to "Maryland X", but I guess we'd have to see how the NC debate turns out.-Jeff (talk) 04:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Routes in Baltimore

[2] These are maintained by the city, except for some of the Interstates, which are maintained by the Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA). [3]

[edit] Names of freeways

From [4]

No name
  • I-70 from Carroll/Howard county line to Baltimore
  • I-95 from I-695 to I-895 south
  • I-95X
  • I-97
  • I-270Y
  • I-370
  • MD 32 east of MD 175
  • MD 100
  • MD 795

[edit] "State Road No. 1"

It appears there was such a thing before any of the other numbered routes existed.[5] I cannot find evidence of any other state roads from that era.

From 1908 ch. 304 sec. 1:[6]

A public highway to be known as State Road No. 1 shall be constructed between the cities of Washington and Baltimore, the course of which, as near as practicable, shall be along the route of the old Baltimore and Washington Road; provided, however, that said State Road No. 1 shall be constructed upon the present roadbed of the Baltimore and Washington Road from Waterloo, in Howard County, to the Village of Halethorpe, Baltimore County, and entering the City of Baltimore at Columbia Avenue, the bed of which, so far as the same is vested in the State or the several counties through which it passes, hereby dedicated by way of easement or fee simple, as the case may be, to the public use.

Obviously this is now mainly US 1 between Baltimore and Washington. Columbia Avenue is now Washington Boulevard.[7] --NE2 12:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

More info on MD 1, according to that it was probably never signed, I would mention the route in the U.S. Route 1 in Maryland article (with Maryland Route 1 being a redirect to it), but that article doesn't exist yet (nor have I gotten around to creating it).-Jeff (talk) 01:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I mentioned it in U.S. Route 1#Maryland; that can be moved when U.S. Route 1 in Maryland is created. --NE2 06:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] When did numbering begin?

Routes were numbered by July 1930: [8] [9] [10] And apparently by June 1929, though that article only seems to describe 2, 3, 5, 13, 113, and 213. --NE2 01:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Here's a 1929 map that includes 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 313, and 413: [11][12][13][14][15] --NE2 08:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

MDroads says "Maryland began numbering in the early 30s", that's probably an estimate, so it makes sense that numbers would appear on a 1929 map. Then there's also MD 1 which appeared over 20 years prior. MDroads also mentions that it was not until 1942 that route numbers were required to be signed. As for the exact year numbers first appeared, looking at those old maps it would seem to have happened between 1923 and 1929, most likely towards the end of the decade considering MDroads' estimate was "Early 1930s".-Jeff (talk) 15:23, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Where is MD 496?

MD 496, which runs between roughly between Westminster and Manchester doesn't appear in Wikipedia. Is there a reason for this? Leebert 00:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Because no one added it yet, I went ahead and added it myself. This list isn't exactly complete so if anyone sees something missing please go ahead and add it.-Jeff (talk) 03:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Ahh, thanks, Jeff. I thought perhaps there was a reason it was excluded. Leebert 02:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)