Delaware Route 58 (DE 58), also known as Churchmans Road, is a state highway in
New Castle County
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware (New Castle, Kent, and Sussex). As of the 2020 census, the population was 570,719, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with nearly 60% of the ...
,
Delaware
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. The route runs from
DE 4 adjacent to the
Christiana Hospital
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in
Christiana southeast to
DE 273 near
Hares Corner. The road passes through suburban areas between
Wilmington and
Newark
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* Newark, New Jersey, city in the United States
* Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey; a major air hub in the New York metropolitan area
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, intersecting
DE 7 and
Interstate 95 (I-95) in Christiana and
DE 37 near the
Wilmington Airport. Churchmans Road was originally a county road that was paved in the 1930s and realigned twice in the 1950s. DE 58 was designated onto it in the 1980s.
Route description
![DE 58 WB at DE 1-DE 7 interchange](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/DE_58_WB_at_DE_1-DE_7_interchange.jpg)
DE 58 begins at an intersection with
DE 4 in
Christiana. Past this intersection, the road continues northwest as Delaware Park Boulevard to provide access to
Delaware Park – which consists of a Thoroughbred horse racetrack, casino, and golf course – and the
Churchmans Crossing station
Churchmans Crossing station is a SEPTA Regional Rail station in Newark, Delaware. Located at 1 Fairplay Boulevard, it serves the Wilmington/Newark Line. The station lies on the property of the Delaware Park Racetrack, and has a 125-space parking lo ...
on
SEPTA
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's
Wilmington/Newark Line that runs along
Amtrak
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's
Northeast Corridor
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railroad line. From DE 4, DE 58 heads east on Churchmans Road, a four-lane
divided highway
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. The route passes to the north of
Christiana Hospital
Christiana Hospital is a 906-bed nationally ranked, non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located in Stanton, Newark, Delaware, servicing the entire Delaware area and parts of southern New Jersey. Christiana Hospital is the ...
and runs through commercial development before coming to a
partial cloverleaf interchange
A partial cloverleaf interchange or parclo is a modification of a cloverleaf interchange.
The design has been well received, and has since become one of the most popular freeway-to-arterial interchange designs in North America. It has also bee ...
with the
DE 7 freeway a short distance north of the northern terminus of
DE 1 at the
I-95 (Delaware Turnpike) interchange. Just east of that interchange, DE 58 forms the southern border of the Stanton Campus of
Delaware Technical Community College
Delaware Technical Community College (previously Delaware Technical & Community College, also known as DTCC, Delaware Tech, or Del Tech) is a public community college in the U.S. state of Delaware. Delaware Tech is an open admission institution ...
. The route crosses over I-95 (Delaware Turnpike), where there is a ramp from I-95 southbound to DE 58. This is the only direct ramp between DE 58 and I-95, as all other access between the two routes must be made via DE 7.
![DE 58 WB past DE 37](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/DE_58_WB_past_DE_37.jpg)
Past I-95, DE 58 becomes a two-lane undivided road and heads to the southeast through residential areas, crossing the
Christina River. The route curves south through commercial development, widening back into a four-lane divided highway and intersecting
DE 37. Past the intersection with DE 37, DE 58 continues southeast as a two-lane undivided road and skirts the southwestern edge of
Wilmington Airport. The route passes through light industrial development and reaches its terminus at
DE 273 near
Hares Corner.
DE 58 has an
annual average daily traffic count ranging from a high of 26,430 vehicles at the DE 1/DE 7 interchange to a low of 10,203 vehicles at the DE 37 intersection.
[ None of DE 58 is part of the National Highway System.]
History
Churchmans Road existed as a county road by 1920. The entire road was paved by 1936. Churchmans Road originally ran from DE 4 near Christiana to U.S. Route 13 north of Hares Corner. By 1952, the current alignment of Churchmans Road was constructed around the west side of Wilmington Airport from north of Airport Road to DE 273 near Hares Corner, with a portion of the original road southeast of Airport Road being removed; the two pieces of the former alignment that remained are now Old Churchmans Road. The current alignment of Churchmans Road west of DE 7 was built two years later, with the former alignment now Old Churchmans Road. DE 58 was designated onto its current alignment in 1985. In 1999, the intersection at DE 7 was converted into an interchange in a $25 million construction project. In 2003, construction began on a new bridge carrying DE 58 over I-95 to replace the previous bridge, which was over 40 years old and experienced deterioration. Construction of the new bridge, which cost $17 million, was originally planned to be finished in fall 2005 but completion was delayed to fall 2006. The new bridge carrying DE 58 over I-95 was built to accommodate future widening of I-95. Between May 2005 and June 2006, the portion of DE 58 at the intersection with DE 37 was reconstructed and widened into a divided highway as part of a $8.6 million project that also reconstructed and widened DE 37 along Airport Road between DE 58 and Commons Boulevard.
Major intersections
Mileposts run from east to west.
See also
*
References
External links
DE 58 at AARoads.com
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* 58 (number)
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* 58 (band), an American rock band
* 58 (golf), a round of 58 in golf
* "Fifty Eight", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Arch Stanton
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Transportation in New Castle County, Delaware