Walkabout Wilmington – A stroll through the city

14th Street west at U.S. 13 Business (King Street) south near Midtown Brandywine. King Street flows south with three lanes from the Market Street bridge over Brandywine Creek to LOMA and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. 03/30/04

The U.S. 13 Business shield at 16th and Walnut Streets fell off after 2008, and the Business banner was lowered to abut the left arrow. 03/30/04

16th Street (US 13 Business) west at French Street. Buildings in the north and southwest quadrants here were eventually demolished. 03/30/04

U.S. 13 Business northbound turns north from 16th Street onto the Market Street Bridge across Brandywine Creek. 03/30/04

Looking south at the intersection of US 13 Business (Market Street) with 16th Street and Park Drive. 03/30/04

With the former Chase Manhattan buildings overlooking, SR 52 (12th Street) intersects Jefferson Street. 03/30/04

Looking at the intersection of Adams Street and Delaware Avenue from the northeast. Adams Street north is discontinuous across Delaware Avenue. Motorists on SR 52 south cannot access the street north as well. 03/30/04

Situated ahead of Adams Street on SR 52 (Delaware Avenue) north were a pair of original guide signs with 2000-replaced shields for I-95. Both signs were carbon copied by 2007. 03/30/04

Delaware 52 (Delaware Avenue) north at Adams Street north and the nearby on-ramp for I-95. 03/30/04

Delaware Avenue branches north from Delaware 52 (Pennsylvania Avenue) at Van Buren Street. The initial block to Harrison Street west is one-way north. 03/30/04

Delaware Avenue south defaults onto Harrison Street west to connect with adjacent Pennsylvania Avenue (Delaware 52). Pedestal signals here continuously display red to prohibit motorists from continuing onto the one-way north section of Delaware Avenue. 03/30/04

Two blocks removed from Delaware 52 and Pennsylvania Avenue, Delaware Avenue intersects Franklin Street. Similar to Broom Street two blocks to the north, Franklin Street travels north from Maryland Avenue (Delaware 4) through the residential neighborhoods of Hilltop and Cool Spring to Brandywine Park at Lovering Avenue. 04/01/04

Broom Street is one-way south from Lovering Avenue and Brandywine Park to Delaware Avenue and the West Hill community. 04/01/04

Delaware Avenue lowers northward toward Trolley Square at Rodney Street in northwest Wilmington. Rodney Street carries two way traffic within the vicinity of Delaware Avenue. 04/01/04

Delaware Avenue, Clayton Street south and a one block section of 16th Street east come together at a five way intersection by Trolley Square. Home to a shopping center now, Trolley Square is the historic location of the Wilmington street car barn. 04/01/04

Rising north from Trolley Square toward the Delaware Avenue community at Clayton Street. 04/01/04

Street level signals at Delaware Avenue and Clayton Street were replaced my modern mast-arm assemblies by 2007. 04/01/04

Clayton Street ends one block west of Delaware Avenue a tGilpin Avenue and a trail into Brandywine Park. 04/01/04

Dupont Street provides a through street south from Augustine Cutoff to Trolley Square and Delaware 52 (Pennsylvania Avenue). Delaware Avenue intersects the street by the CSX Railroad overpass and Kellys Logan House tavern. Mast arm signals replaced all 30" street level signals here by 2007. 04/01/04

The CSX Railroad overpass across Delaware Avenue at Trolley Square once was a part of a passenger train station. The sidewalk portion of the bridge was dismantled in the 1990s. 04/01/04

Traffic signals were installed at Delaware Avenue and Scott Street in the mid 1990s. Scott Street carries two-way traffic south to 14th Street and north to Lovering Avenue by Augustine Cutoff. 04/01/04

Union Street and Delaware Avenue intersect in the Forty Acres community. Delaware Avenue ends seven blocks to the north at Rockford Park. Eagle signals here were replaced after 2008. 04/01/04

Union Street ends in four blocks east of Delaware Avenue at Lovering Avenue near the Delaware Art Museum. 04/01/04

The north section of French Street extends between Eighth and Sixteenth Streets. This view looked north at 14th Street in the Upper East Side of Wilmington. 03/30/04

A two block section of French Street connects Wilmington Train Station with Second Street (Delaware 48) at LOMA (Lower Market). 03/30/04

An I-95 trailblazer directs motorists north from Wilmington Train Station to use 2nd Street west one block to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard ramps to the Wilmington Viaduct. 03/30/04

Facing Downtown Wilmington on French Street south at Fourteenth Street. Eagle Mark IV signals replaced this vintage set of signals by 2007. 03/30/04

French Street travels underneath the Wilmington Train Station platform between Front Street and Tubman-Garrett Park along the Christina River waterfront. 03/30/04

Harrison Street flows three blocks southwest from Lovering Avenue and Brandywine Park to Delaware Avenue at Fountain Plaza. Delaware Avenue splits from Pennsylvania Avenue as a one-way street north nearby. 03/30/04