US 113 North/South Study. Sussex County, Delaware.

In response to a mandate from Delaware’s General Assembly, the Delaware Department of Transportation tasked WRA to study the feasibility of creating a north-south limited-access highway in Sussex County from the Kent County line to the Maryland state line. The initial feasibility study recommended upgrading existing US 113 to limited access, bypassing existing towns only where necessary. As an extension of the feasibility study, WRA has performed planning, environmental, engineering and public outreach services for the 38-mile US 113 corridor for more than ten years. These services include travel forecasting, environmental resources inventory and documentation, land use inventory and assessment, and alternatives development and evaluation throughout the corridor. WRA is preparing environmental documentation and will develop right-of-way preservation strategies and prepare final design documents for the selected alternatives in subsequent phases of the study.