Status: Signed east-west with yellow "TOLL" banner.

It's official...the ICC will be signed MD 200.
(a tip of the hat to Mark Stein for the info)

MD 200 Photo Gallery: ICC Opening Day

MD 200 Photo Gallery: ICC Construction

A western stretch of the Intercounty Connector, MD 200, opened February 23, 2010, between I-370 and MD 28. It features a short tunnel and automated full-speed electronic tolling. Apparently MD 200 will pick up its mileage points and exit numbers from I-370, which will end at the Shady Grove Metro. All traffic was routed up a temporary ramp to MD 28. The portion east of MD 97 to I-95 was opened November 22, 2011.

The contracts were awarded in four sections for the ICC itself, plus a contract for an adjoining collector ramp on I-95. There are already bridge columns and abutments at I-95 and US 29, as well as the western end at I-370. The ICC will be Maryland's first experience with congestion pricing and demand-based toll rates.

Montgomery County political and business leaders favored the ICC proposal, although Governor Glendening withdrew his endorsement for the project during his 1998 re-election campaign. At one point, Glendening favored the sale of the land set aside for the ICC. However, the plans were again revived under Governor Ehrlich upon taking office in 2003. The ICC received federal approval on May 30, 2006, and subsequently construction moved forward. The defeat of Ehrlich and return of Democratic state monopoly in the 2006 elections raised hopes once again for ICC opponents, but Governor O'Malley stayed the course, and remained in favor of completion.

For more progress info, visit the ICC Project official site at www.iccproject.com.

ICC construction, from Old Columbia Pike looking east towards US 29. (Photo 06-07-2009)

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

This one has had at least three names: Crystal Spring Ave. (as shown on the 1946 map, 57th Ave. by 1956, and the current name Larchmont Dr.

Two of the many names of the former MD 200. Crystal Spring Ave. in 1946 (left) and 57th Ave in 1956 (right). It has since been named Larchmont Dr. and stripped of the 200 number.

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Marked north-south.

NHS: between DC border and I-95/495.

There's a MD 201 sign as you enter Maryland on the B-W Parkway. However, 201 leaves on the first exit, and MD 295 doesn't officially start until the end of federal maintenance at MD 175. MD 201 north of 450 in Bladensburg was formerly numbered MD 205.

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Marked east-west.

NHS: between US 50 and Old Landover Rd.

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

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MD 203, from a 1956 General Drafting DC area map.

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

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No longer assigned (decommissioned 1998), now part of MD 5.

Provides an eastern bypass of Waldorf and the current 301-5 junction. The 205 designation will probably be abandoned in the very near future, to become the new MD 5. It's already reflected on official maps, but as of mid-August 1998 the 205 signs were still there.

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No longer assigned (decommissioned), now part of MD 201.

What is now MD 201 once met at a staggered junction in Bladensburg, thus there were separate numbers until it was became a straight intesection, at which time all of 205 became part of 201.

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Signed north-south at traffic signals.

Added with the construction of an interchange with I-95 near the Intercounty Connector. The 206 designation doesn't appear on overhead signs on I-95 or on MD 200.

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

Ran parallel to each other on opposite sides of Amtrak rail line. State maintenance ended at Bunker Hill Rd. Strange indeed.

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Marked north-south.

MD 208, from a 1942 map.

It's surprising this one is still on the books; 208 is just a few streets running jaggedly along through the close-in incorporated suburbs of DC. From the one trip I made there some years back, it is all two-lane streets with curbs and no shoulder. Between US 1 and US 1 Alt was once numbered as MD 206. MD 208 isn't all state maintained, there's some municipal maintenance here on the part of Brentwood. It was all fairly well marked if things haven't changed since my last trip.

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

MD 209 became part of MD 410, then dropped when 410 was diverted northward.

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Marked north-south.

NHS: south of I-95/495 to Berry Rd (MD 228).

Indian Head Hwy began life as a unnumbered, federally maintained road, a straighter road to replace the more curved Livingston Rd (MD 224) which at that time was the main southern approach to DC.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes: 810

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No longer assigned (decommissioned), now part of MD 500.

The map says it all...210 was covered over by 500 when Queens Chapel Rd was straightened out and run through the park. Nothing seems to remain of the airport. The DC line appears at bottom left.

Before and after of the MD 210 / MD 500 transition; (top) 1942, (bottom) 1952.

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Decommissioned.

MD 211 ended its existence as a zombie route. It no longer appears in the route logs or on the official map, but the removal wasn't in the Route Alert Lists.

MD 211...catch it while you still can. (Photo 02-18-01)

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Marked north-south.

MD 212 runs north-northeast from the District line, then does a small loop back, crossing I-95 and US 1, meeting MD 201 in an L-shaped ending.

MD 212, first marker after entering from DC. (picture 05/29/2010)

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Status: Marked north-south.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes: 537 812

MD 213 is the fourth longest state route, and eleventh overall at 68.25 miles. It was created when US 213 was decommissioned sometime in the late 1970s. US 213 until 1949 also consisted of all of current US 50 south of Wye Mills to Ocean City. The northern end was at US 40 in Elkton. When the US designation was dropped, MD 280 was absorbed into the new state route. Route 280 was the part of the current route north of US 40 to the Pennsylvania border.

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No longer assigned (decommissioned 1971).

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Signed east-west.

MD 214 runs roughtly parallel to and 3-5 miles south of US 50.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes: 332 977 978

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

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Marked east-west.

Before the completion of its final link just northwest of its interchange with I-95, MD 216 was a broken route. The gap was bridged by unnumbered Leishear Rd.

It was broken in more ways than that. MD 216 once ran east of Laurel through Maryland City to the area near Fort Meade, this having been broken by the building of the B-W Parkway. East of the B-W Parkway though, a signed piece of MD 216 connecting with MD 198. It leads to an abandoned children's mental hospital run by the district of Columbia. A newspaper article once told of some unmarked graves...ghost stories, anyone?

This stub's junction with MD 198 was the scene of a light plane crash on May 4, 2007, which some news reports mentioned as being 'on Route 216'. Other than they busy adjacent MD 198, this road was the only clear landing site, otherwise it's surrounded by woods.

Associated Secret-Obscure Routes: 983

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No longer assigned (decommissioned).

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Marked north-south.

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Marked north-south.

US 219 has its own page in the US Highway section.

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Unmarked, possibly associated with proposed Oakland Bypass.

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