Site Navigation Delaware District of Columbia Maryland New Jersey Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia     U.S. Highway 1 South (City of Baltimore) U.S. 1 Southbound U.S. 1 south & U.S. 40 Truck west (North Avenue) at the Jones Falls Expressway interchange with Interstate 83 (Exit 7). Pictured here is a guide sign for the forthcoming northbound on-ramp to Interstate 83 and its connections to the Druid Hill Lake Drive & 28th Street interchange. Photo taken 10/10/04. State-named Interstate 83 shield affixed to a light post ahead of the Mount Royal Street and Interstate 83 ramp intersection on North Avenue westbound. Traffic to Interstate 83 north turns right ahead and partitions between the Jones Falls Expressway mainline to Towson and the Druid Hill Park interchange. Photo taken 10/10/04. U.S. 1 south & U.S. 40 Truck (North Avenue) westbound at the intersection of Mount Royal Street and the ramps to/from Interstate 83. Mount Royal Street stems south from North Avenue to Howard Street, Cathedral Street, and Maryland 2 (St. Paul & Calvert Streets). Photo taken 10/10/04. Continuing west from Mount Royal Street along North Avenue to the intersection with Park Avenue. Park Avenue meanders between McMechen Street and Lake Drive at Druid Hill Park. Note the U.S. 1 southbound reassurance shield posted within the median. Photo taken 10/10/04. The north-south streets orientate in a northwest to southeast configuration west of Park Avenue at North Avenue. The next set of signals govern the intersection with Linden Avenue. Photo taken 10/10/04. A set of 30" signals reside at the intersection of U.S. 1 & U.S. 40 Truck (North Avenue) and Eutaw Place. Eutaw Place ventures northwest from the Bolton Hill community to Druid Park Lake Drive. Photo taken 10/10/04. U.S. 1 & U.S. 40 Truck (North Avenue) intersect the one-way street couplet of Maryland 129 (McCulloh Street & Druid Hill Avenue) three blocks west of Eutaw Place. Maryland 129 constitutes 15.43 miles between U.S. 40 (Franklin Street) in Mt. Vernon northwest to Pikesville.1 Photo taken 10/10/04. North Avenue westbound at Pennsylvania Avenue. Pennsylvania Avenue represents a former alignment of U.S. 140 between U.S. 1 & U.S. 40 Truck and Reisterstown Road. U.S. 140 relocated from Pennsylvania Avenue onto Monroe Street & Fulton Avenue sometime before 1959 and was decommissioned all together by 1980.2 Photo taken 10/10/04. U.S. 1 south splits from U.S. 40 Truck west at the North Avenue intersection with Monroe Street. U.S. 1 follows the one-way street couplet of Monroe Street (south) and Fulton Avenue (north) between North Avenue and Wilkens Avenue in west-central Baltimore. U.S. 40 Truck continues west along North Avenue to Hilton Parkway in the Walbrook section of the city. Note the small guide sign outlining the U.S. 1 & U.S. 40 Truck orientation. Photo taken 10/10/04. Monroe Street continues U.S. 1 southbound from North Avenue. Pictured here is a reassurance marker for the federal highway posted between North Avenue and Westwood Avenue. Photo taken 10/10/04. One-piece four-way signals remain in use at the U.S. 1 (Monroe Street) southbound intersection with Baker Street. Baker Street provides an east-west through route between Hilton Street and Druid Hill Avenue (Maryland 129). Photo taken 10/10/04. Row homes line the residential streets of west-central Baltimore as U.S. 1 passes through via Monroe Street. Many of these neighborhoods of west Baltimore are in a blighted state with many homes boarded up and vacated. Visible here are 30" signals at the intersection with Presstman Street. Photo taken 10/10/04. Entering the Sandtown community of Baltimore at Riggs Avenue on U.S. 1 (Monroe Street) southbound. Photo taken 10/10/04. U.S. 1 southbound reassurance shield found on the block between Mosher Street and Lafayette Avenue. Photo taken 10/10/04. Lafayette Avenue provides a through route between Poplar Grove Street in Rosemont east to Pennsylvania Avenue at Upton. Another set of 30" one-piece four-way traffic lights remain in use at the U.S. 1 intersection with Lafayette Avenue. Photo taken 10/10/04. U.S. 1 (Monroe Street) southbound at the signalized intersection with Edmondson Avenue. Edmondson Avenue migrates west from Freemont Avenue to junction U.S. 40 at Poplar Grove Street. Edmondson Avenue overtakes U.S. 40 from Franklin Street en route through Edmondson Village, Rognel Heights, and Hunting Ridge in west Baltimore. Photo taken 10/10/04. Vacant lots line Monroe Street southbound between Edmondson Avenue and Lauretta Avenue. A street lamp supports a U.S. 1 reassurance shield here. Photo taken 10/10/04. Vintage button copy overheads direct motorists to U.S. 40 at the intersection with Franklin Street (former U.S. 40 west). U.S. 40 follows the original Interstate 170 depressed freeway between Pulaski Street and Greene Street. Opened in 1979, the below grade freeway dead ends at Pulaski Street just west of U.S. 1 (Monroe Street) south. U.S. 40 emerges from the freeway and follows Franklin & Mulberry Streets between Pulaski Street and Edmondson Avenue. The blank space on the westbound overhead was to display "Interstate 170 west" for a never-opened freeway on-ramp. Photo taken 10/10/04. U.S. 40 saw relocation from the one-way street couplet of Franklin (west) & Mulberry (east) Streets in the mid 1980s onto the former Interstate 170 freeway. The frontage streets parallel the freeway above between Pulaski Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Motorists bound for U.S. 40 (Mulberry Street) east or Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard should follow Mulberry Street east along the depressed freeway. There is no on-ramp onto the freeway below from U.S. 1. Photo taken 10/10/04. Sources:: MDRoads: Routes 120-139 End of historic U.S. Highway 140 (Dale Sanderson) Page Updated April 10, 2005.