[Wallace T.]

Delaware recently upgraded US 301 to a toll road to the Maryland state line. In Maryland, US 301 is freeway where co-signed with US 50, but is a four lane divided highway elsewhere. I don't know if a toll road would be a solution, but if I were driving from Richmond and points south to Philadelphia and points north, I would be willing to pay to bypass Washington and Baltimore.

[central_va]

You must have never driven over old rickety, better known as the US 301 bridge over the Potomac. A real white knuckler.