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Delaware Route 41 (DE 41) is a highway in northwestern New Castle County, Delaware. Its southern terminus is at DE 2 and DE 62 in Prices Corner. From DE 2, the road passes through suburban areas along Newport Gap Pike, intersecting DE 34 in Brandywine Springs and DE 48 in Hockessin. Its northern terminus is the Pennsylvania state line just north of Hockessin, and it continues on as Pennsylvania Route 41 (PA 41) to Gap. DE 41 was originally chartered as the Gap and Newport Turnpike in the 19th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, this road was upgraded to a state highway. DE 41 was designated by 1936 to run from U.S. Route 40 (US 40, now DE 9/DE 273) in New Castle north to the Pennsylvania border in Hockessin. In the 1950s, DE 141 became concurrent with the route from New Castle to north of Newport. DE 41 was removed from the DE 141 concurrency in the 1970s and was realigned to follow DE 2 east to an interchange with DE 141 in the 1980s, with the old alignment south of DE 2 becoming DE 62. In 2015, the southern terminus was cut back to its current location, removing the concurrency with DE 2. ==Route description== DE 41 begins at an intersection with DE 2 in Prices Corner, heading northwest along Newport Gap Pike. South of DE 2, Newport Gap Pike continues southeast as DE 62. DE 41 is a two-lane divided highway before it crosses the Wilmington and Western Railroad and the Red Clay Creek. The route becomes an undivided road and continues through a mix of residential neighborhoods and woodland. The road comes to an intersection with DE 34 (Faulkland Road) in Brandywine Springs. Past this junction, DE 41 continues northwest, with stretches alternating between divided and undivided highway, towards Hockessin.〔 In Hockessin, DE 41 meets the western terminus of DE 48 (Lancaster Pike), onto which it merges. The Lancaster Pike alternates between a divided highway and a two-lane undivided road. DE 41 turns to the west-northwest as it enters business areas and becomes a three-lane divided highway with one northbound lane and two southbound lanes. The median turns into a center left-turn lane as the road runs past more development and crosses the Wilmington and Western Railroad again. The southbound direction narrows to one lane at the Yorklyn Road intersection. The road briefly becomes a divided highway at the Valley Road junction. After leaving the center of Hockessin, the route becomes a three-lane undivided road, with two northbound lanes and one southbound lane. The road passes homes, eventually narrowing back to two lanes. DE 41 reaches the Pennsylvania border, where Gap Newport Pike continues northwest as PA 41.〔 DE 41 has an annual average daily traffic count ranging from a high of 50,410 vehicles at the southern terminus at DE 141 to a low of 12,611 vehicles at the McKennans Church Road intersection.〔 The entire length of DE 41 is part of the National Highway System. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Delaware Route 41」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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