U.S. 40 West

Wilton Boulevard intersects U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) to the immediate west of U.S. 13 (Dupont Highway). Wilton Boulevard arcs northwest by a number of town home communities to Appleby Road.

01/15/17

Confirming marker for U.S. 40 posted west of Wilton Boulevard. The south side of Pulaski Highway remains undeveloped due to the adjacent Norfolk Southern Railroad.

01/15/17

School Bell Road provides a cut off from U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) west to SR 7 north near Christiana. The suburban road winds by several subdivisions to pass under the SR 1 freeway.

01/15/17

U.S. 40 west at Buckley Boulevard south. Built by the early 1990s, the adjacent Buckley subdivision is representative of early growth in the Bear area. Signals at Buckley Boulevard were added in 2000 as traffic counts increased due to the addition of several businesses.

01/15/17

Continuing west toward the commercial center of Bear, U.S. 40 quickly enters the parclo interchange with SR 1. The SR 273 reference for SR 1 northbound remains from when the freeway ended temporarily at Exit 162 (Christiana Road).

01/15/17

A left turn takes drivers onto SR 1 north to Christiana and I-95 at Churchmans Crossing. The freeway north to I-95 was completed in April 1993.

01/15/17

Signs for SR 1 on U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) reference U.S. 13 from the 1991 opening of the freeway south to Tybouts Corner. SR 1 overtook a portion of Dupont Highway south from there toward to St. Georges, Odessa, Smyrna and Dover when it was completed in December 1995.

01/15/17

Approaching both the entrance to Eden Square Shopping Center and the intersection SR 7 (Bear Corbitt Road) on U.S. 40 west at Bear. Preventing weaving traffic, the concrete divider separating he left turn lanes into Eden Square Shopping Center from the SR 1 entrance ramp was added in 2000.

06/17/12

Governors Square and Glendale Plaza shopping centers line the west side of the congested intersection at U.S. 40 and SR 7 (Bear Corbitt Road). SR 7 was the original route linking U.S. 13 north from Wrangle Hill to Interstate 95 north of Christiana. Still mostly a two lane roadway today, the state route doubles as a commuter route to the parallel SR 1 freeway while serving numerous housing developments and apartments both south to Red Lion and north to SR 273.

03/27/04

Construction completed in 1997 widened U.S. 40 west from SR 1 to Walther Road. The expansion preceded the 1998-opening of Glendale Plaza on the south side of Pulaski Highway.

05/01/04

Passing by the Walther farm along U.S. 40 west. This reassurance marker was removed by 2012.

12/23/08

U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) west after Church Road south and Wellington Drive north.

12/23/08

Advancing west toward Glasgow, U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) intersects SR 72 by Fox Run Shopping Center. Construction from May 2018 to Fall 2021 added turn lanes and upgraded the traffic lights to mast arm assemblies.

08/27/21

SR 72 (Wrangle Hill Road) arcs four miles southeast from U.S. 40 to Wrangle Hill at U.S. 13 and SR 7. Northward, SR 72 (Sunset Lake Road) provides a direct route to the city of Newark.

08/27/21

U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) leads 1.4 miles west from SR 72 to SR 896 at Glasgow by Glasgow Park.

08/27/21

A traffic light was added in 2001 at Cpl/1 Stephen J. Ballard Way (formerly Lagrange Avenue) south to a newly built at the time State Police Troop and William B. Keene Elementary.

08/27/21

U.S. 40 continues a half mile west from the Glasgow Park entrance to SR 896 (Summit Bridge Road). Referencing Guide signs for the upcoming intersection were amended in 2019 to remove U.S. 301.

08/27/21

U.S. 301 previously overlapped with SR 896 south from U.S. 40 and Glasgow 7.5 miles to Mt. Pleasant beyond the Summit Bridge. U.S. 301 was relocated in January 2019 onto the First Responders Memorial Highway toll road around Middletown.

08/27/21

SR 896 constitutes a four lane divided highway heading south to Summit Bridge and north to Newark. The state route was widened along this stretch from two to four lanes between 1991 and 1996.

08/27/21

The planned US 40 & SR 896 Improvements Project¹ upgrades the signalized intersection joining U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) and SR 896 (Summit Bridge Road) into a parclo interchange.

08/27/21

U.S. 40 separates into a one way couplet through Glasgow with businesses occupying space between the east and westbound roadways. 0.31 miles west of SR 896 is the intersection with SR 896 Business (Glasgow Avenue).

08/27/21

SR 896 (Glasgow Avenue) represents the former alignment of SR 896 south to Peoples Plaza Shopping Center and Porter Road (Road 400) and north to Muddy Run.

08/27/21

U.S. 40 (Pulaski Highway) proceeds five miles west from Glasgow to the town of Elkton in Maryland.

08/27/21

The succeeding signal along U.S. 40 westbound in Glasgow is with the access road south to Peoples Plaza retail complex.

08/27/21

Traffic lights were added along U.S. 40 at Biddle Avenue by 2014. Biddle Avenue links Pulaski Highway with Frenchtown Road (Road 392) west to MD 213 in south Elkton.

08/27/21

LaGrange Parkway from the LaGrange development intersects U.S. 40 across from Perch Creek Drive and the Perch Creek development.

08/27/21

Pleasant Valley Road (Road 8) is a major collecting running 1.47 miles north from U.S. 40 to Old Baltimore Pike (Road 26) at Otts Chapel Road (Road 397).

08/27/21

The traffic signals at Frazer Road (Road 391) were upgraded to mast arms with development of an adjacent subdivision in 2022. Frazer Road heads 4.27 miles south to Chesapeake City Road (Road 399).

08/27/21

Crossing the Maryland state line on U.S. 40 westbound. Extending west to Baltimore, U.S. 40 remains along Pulaski Highway across the Cecil County seat of Elkton.

08/27/21