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I-95 high-speed E-ZPass lanes open at Newark toll plaza – The News Journal (New Castle, Del.)
A nightmare of a construction project along Interstate 95 has been completed.
The Delaware Turnpike toll plaza near Newark now has two dedicated left lanes for cars with EZ Pass — drivers with the transponder no longer have to slow down!
Last [...]

That’s No Rest Stop, It’s A ‘Travel Plaza’ – NPR
The second weekend of I-95: The Road Most Traveled features a look at the Delaware Welcome Center Travel Plaza that was recently reopened. The old service plaza was pretty bad and I only went to it a few times over the years. Typically, if I [...]

The latest snowstorm to hit BeltwayLand happened (for the most part) while I was in the Poconos skiing with my wife. We were at Camelback and it is pretty much the same as it always is except that my favorite slope, the Nile Mile has been changed to a blue square from a double green [...]

NEWARK, Del. – On our way back from the Jersey Shore last month, we had no timeline for getting home, so we took a more leisurely pace. After leaving New Jersey we entered Delaware and found ourselves getting hungry which is advantageous since there is no sales tax there. Our son was ready to be [...]

I used the same criteria as previous years — I have to had a meal or spent the night there. Fast food does not count either.
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Metro Networks Presents ‘The Top Ten Worst Holiday Traffic Tie-Ups In America’ – PR Newswire
New York-Philadelphia-Washington, DC — Interstate 95. This corridor is easily the slowest 225 miles of highway during the holidays. The section from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington Bridge is the worst of it.
Left unsaid is [...]

Higher tolls, fees start today – The News Journal, New Castle, Del.Steve Anderson of nycroads.com, dcroads.net and others tipped me off that the tolls are going up on the Delaware Turnpike. The highway, which includes I-95’s first 11 miles in Delaware, will now cost $4 at the main toll plaza east of the Maryland/Delaware line.
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JAY HANCOCK – Del. might pick your pocket with I-95 lease – The SunA Baltimore columnist comes out against the privatization of the Delaware Turnpike (emphasis added):
Marylanders and other non-Delawareans would pay the inevitably higher I-95 tolls plus any other consequences of placing this economic lifeline in private hands. Leasing I-95 to some corporation [...]

Returning home from down the Shore on Sunday, we hit heavy traffic on I-95 south before the Delaware Service Plaza. I wound up turning around at the plaza and getting on DE 273 west. The trip was interesting because it was the first time I had been through the University of Delaware area (aside [...]