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Maryland Route 214 - Wikipedia
Maryland Route 214 - Wikipedia
Maryland Route 214 - Wikipedia
Route description
MD 214 begins at East Capitol Street's intersection with Southern
Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary in Capitol Heights.
This junction is a short distance southwest of the eastern corner
of Washington and adjacent to the Capitol Heights station on
Washington Metro's Blue and Silver lines. MD 214 heads east as
a six-lane divided highway along the northern edge of the town of
Capitol Heights and crosses Henson Creek. The highway begins
to follow the southern city limit of Seat Pleasant at its
intersection with unsigned MD 332A, which provides full access
to MD 332 (Central Avenue). MD 214's name changes to Central View west along MD 214 at MD 468
Avenue where the eastbound lane of MD 332 (Old Central in Mayo
Avenue) merges into eastbound MD 214. Just east of MD 332,
the highway intersects Addison Road and passes the eponymous
Metro station.[1][2]
MD 214 intersects Morgan Boulevard—which leads north to the namesake Metro station and
FedExField, the home of the Washington Redskins—west of its partial cloverleaf interchange with the
Capital Beltway in Largo. East of the freeway, the state highway has a partial interchange with Harry
S. Truman Drive, which is unsigned MD 202C and leads to Largo Town Center, which is the eastern
terminal of Metro's Blue and Silver lines. The interchange includes a two-lane loop ramp from
eastbound MD 214 to Harry S. Truman Drive; access from the north–south crossroad to westbound
MD 214 is via a ramp that merges with one of the straight ramps at MD 214's partial cloverleaf
interchange with MD 202 (Largo Road). There is no direct access from westbound MD 214 to
southbound MD 202 or from northbound MD 202 to eastbound MD 214; those movements are made
via Campus Way to the east of the interchange.[1][2]
MD 214 continues east between the suburbs of Lake Arbor to the north and Kettering to the south.
East of the Western Branch of the Patuxent River, the highway intersects MD 193, which heads north
as Enterprise Road and south as Watkins Park Drive. MD 214 reduces to four lanes and passes along
the southern edge of the Six Flags America amusement park. East of Church Road, the highway
enters the southern fringe of the city of Bowie. At Devonwood Drive, which is unsigned MD 978C,
MD 214 veers southeast and parallels Hall Road, which is MD 978A. The highways both intersect
CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision rail line and cross Collington Branch before the roads reunite. MD
978B (Old Central Avenue) splits to the southeast ahead of MD 214's partial cloverleaf interchange
with US 301 (Robert Crain Highway), then rejoins the main road east of the interchange. Access from
eastbound MD 214 to southbound US 301 and from northbound US 301 to eastbound MD 214 is via
Old Central Avenue. At the eastern junction with the old road, MD 214 narrows to a two-lane
undivided road.[1][2]
MD 214 intersects Queen Anne Bridge Road, which leads to the abandoned Queen Anne Bridge and
the historic home Hazelwood, just west of its steel through truss bridge across the Patuxent River at
the Prince George's–Anne Arundel county line. The highway meets the southern end of MD 424
(Davidsonville Road) in the Davidsonville Historic District. MD 214 intersects Riva Road and passes
the historic home Summer Hill on its way to Edgewater. The highway gains a second lane westbound
at Pike Ridge Road, which is unsigned MD 214A. The route gains a second eastbound lane and a
median just west of its intersection with MD 2 (Solomons Island Road). MD 214 veers southeast and
becomes undivided at Stepneys Lane and meets the southern end of MD 253 (Mayo Road) opposite
South River High School, then drops to two lanes ahead of its intersection with MD 468 (Muddy
Creek Road). MD 214 continues east through the community of Selby-on-the-Bay, where it passes the
entrance to Camp Letts and the historic home Gresham. The highway passes through Mayo and its
name changes to Beverley Avenue on the northern edge of Beverley Beach. MD 214 curves east onto
Grande View Avenue and reaches its eastern terminus at a gate just east of Oakford Avenue.[1][2]
MD 214 is a part of the National Highway System as an intermodal connector between the Addison
Road Metro station and the Capital Beltway. The highway is a National Highway System principal
arterial from Southern Avenue to the Addison Road Metro station, from the Capital Beltway to US
301, and from Vicksburg Road near Davidsonville to Shoreham Beach Road in Beverley Beach.[1][3]
History
Central Avenue from Washington east to Edgewater was planned
as one of the original state roads laid out by the Maryland State
Roads Commission in 1909. This road followed most of MD 214's Maryland Route 254
present alignment from Capitol Heights to Edgewater; the major
deviation was between Hall Station on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Location Davidsonville–Edgewater
(now CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision) and Davidsonville, between
which the highway was planned to follow Queen Anne Bridge Existed 1927–c. 1939
Road and cross the Patuxent River at the hamlet of Queen Anne,
also known as Hardesty. In Edgewater, the proposed road followed Pike Ridge Road and a small part
of modern MD 2 northeast to end at Solomons Island Road, which briefly followed what is now MD
253, south of the South River.[4] Central Avenue was paved as a 14-to-19-foot-wide (4.3 to 5.8 m)
concrete road from the District of Columbia through Capitol Heights to Hill Road east of Seat
Pleasant in 1914. The highway was extended east as a 14-foot-wide (4.3 m) concrete road to what is
now MD 202 in Largo in 1915. The remainder of the planned state road was determined to not form a
necessary part of the state road system in 1915.[5] Central Avenue was extended east from Largo to
near what is now MD 193 as a 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) concrete road starting in 1919; the extension was
finished by 1921.[6][7] The highway was extended again to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Hall Station
by 1923.[8] MD 214 was extended east as a concrete road from Hall Station to the newly built Crain
Highway, then part of MD 3, in 1929 and 1930.[9][10]
MD 214 was widened to 20 feet (6.1 m) from Washington to Largo by 1934. The highway was also
proposed to be widened from 16 to 20 feet (4.9 to 6.1 m) from Largo to Crain Highway, from 15 to 20
feet (4.6 to 6.1 m) along the MD 254 section from Davidsonville to Edgewater, and from 16 to 20 feet
(4.9 to 6.1 m) along MD 253 from Edgewater to Beverley Beach.[13] The whole Prince George's County
section of the highway was widened and resurfaced between 1936 and 1938.[17] MD 214 was widened
from 16 to 24 feet (4.9 to 7.3 m) and resurfaced from Edgewater to Davidsonville between 1942 and
1944.[18] The highway was widened by 7 feet (2.1 m) from the east end of Capitol Heights to Addison
Road in Seat Pleasant in 1948; that same year, the highway was widened to 40 feet (12 m) at the US
301 junction to provide extra capacity at that signalized intersection.[19] MD 214 was relocated to its
present alignment between Pike Ridge Road and MD 253 in 1949.[20][21] The following year, MD 214
replaced MD 253 from Edgewater to its present eastern terminus in Beverley Beach.[22] The state
highway was widened and resurfaced from US 301 to the Patuxent River starting in 1952 and from
the river to MD 2 starting in 1954.[23][24]
Construction on the first divided highway segment of MD 214 began in 1957 and coincided with the
expansion of US 301 to a divided highway between Upper Marlboro and Bowie. MD 214 was
expanded to a divided highway from west of Hall Station to east of US 301; the project included
interchange bridges and ramps between the two highways.[25] The expansion of MD 214 and the US
301 interchange were completed in 1959; the bypassed portions of MD 214 became segments of MD
978.[26][27] The next section of divided highway was built in 1964 when the highway's full cloverleaf
interchange with the Capital Beltway was completed.[28][29][30] The third segment of divided highway
was created when MD 214 was relocated through Capitol Heights as an eastward extension of East
Capitol Street to Addison Road in Seat Pleasant in 1969.[31] Central Avenue through Capitol Heights
was renumbered MD 332.[32] MD 214 was expanded to a divided highway between Seat Pleasant and
the Beltway in 1981 and from east of MD 202 to east of MD 193 in 1989.[33][34] The gap between the
Beltway and east of MD 202 was filled in 1993 and included the interchanges with MD 202 and Harry
S. Truman Drive.[35][36][37] The final gap in divided highway between Capitol Heights and US 301,
from east of MD 193 to west of Hall Station, was filled in 1997.[38] MD 214 was expanded to four lanes
from west of MD 2 to east of MD 253 by 1999.[39] MD 214's interchange with the Beltway was
transformed from a full cloverleaf to a partial cloverleaf in two steps. The loop ramp from westbound
MD 214 to the southbound Beltway was removed in 2003 and the one from the northbound Beltway
to westbound MD 214 was taken out of service in 2008.[40][41]
Junction list
mi
County Location [1] km Destinations Notes
To MD 332 west
Connector between MD 214 and MD 332 is
0.68 1.09 (Central Avenue) – unsigned MD 332A
Seat Capitol Heights
Pleasant
MD 332 (Old Eastern terminus of MD 332; ramp from
0.80 1.29
Central Avenue) eastbound MD 332 to eastbound MD 214 only
I-95 / I-495
(Capital Beltway) –
3.67 5.91 College Park, I-95 / I-495 Exit 15
Baltimore, Andrews
AFB, Richmond
Harry S. Truman
Eastbound exit, westbound entrance; unsigned
Largo 4.13 6.65 Drive – Largo Town MD 202C
Center, FedExField
MD 202 (Largo
Road/Landover Partial cloverleaf interchange; no access from
4.61 7.42 Road) / Harry S. westbound MD 214 to southbound MD 202 or
Truman Drive – from northbound MD 202 to eastbound MD 214
Prince
George's Upper Marlboro
MD 193
(Watkins Park
Kettering 6.77 10.90 Drive/Enterprise
Road) – Upper
Marlboro, Greenbelt
Devonwood Drive
9.48 15.26 north / Jennings Mill Devonwood Drive is unsigned MD 978C
Drive south
10.06 16.19 Hall Road west Unsigned MD 978A
Old Central
Unsigned MD 978B; access from eastbound MD
10.47 16.85 Avenue east to 214 to southbound US 301 is via MD 978B
US 301 south
Bowie Partial cloverleaf interchange; no access from
US 301 (Robert
northbound US 301 to eastbound MD 214 or
10.85 17.46 Crain Highway) – from eastbound MD 214 to southbound US 301;
Baltimore, Upper missing movements made via Old Central
Marlboro, La Plata Avenue
Unsigned MD 978B; access from westbound
Old Central Avenue MD 214 and access to eastbound MD 214;
11.19 18.01
west access from northbound US 301 to eastbound
MD 214 is via MD 978B
Anne MD 424 north
Arundel Davidsonville 16.09 25.89 (Davidsonville Southern terminus of MD 424
Road) – Crofton
Edgewater MD 2 (Solomons
19.47 31.33 Island Road) –
Annapolis, Prince
Frederick
MD 253 north
20.06 32.28 Southern terminus of MD 253
(Mayo Road)
20.83 33.52 MD 468 south Northern terminus of MD 468
(Muddy Creek
Road) – Shady Side
Beverley
24.97 40.19 Road end Eastern terminus
Beach
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
Incomplete access
Auxiliary routes
MD 214 has two existing auxiliary routes and one former one.
MD 214A is the designation for Pike Ridge Road, which runs 0.64 miles (1.03 km) from MD 214
northeast to MD 2 in Edgewater.[1][42] Pike Ridge Road was part of MD 214 until the highway was
relocated on the south side of Edgewater in 1949.[21]
MD 214B is the designation for the unnamed 0.06-mile (0.097 km) connector between MD 214A
and southbound MD 2 south of the junction of the latter two highways.[1][43] MD 214B was
constructed in 2003.[40]
MD 214C was the designation for the unnamed 0.30-mile (0.48 km) L-shaped connector between
Maryland Avenue and MD 2 north of the MD 2–MD 253 intersection in Edgewater.[41][44] MD
214C was constructed in 2003 and transferred to Anne Arundel County maintenance in
2009.[40][45]
See also
Maryland Roads portal
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