page_title: Maryland Route 28
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Maryland Route 28 / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Maryland Route 28 westbound in the town of Tuscarora.
context_page_description: Maryland Route 28 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs 37.38 miles from U.S. Route 15 in Point of Rocks east to MD 182 in Norwood. The western portion of MD 28 is a rural highway connecting several villages in southern Frederick County and western Montgomery County. By contrast, the eastern portion of the state highway is a major east–west commuter route, particularly within Gaithersburg and Rockville.
  MD 28 was an original 1927 Maryland state highway. The state highway originally extended north and east through Olney to Ashton, but the highway was rolled back to Norbeck in the 1940s. MD 28 was extended east to its present eastern terminus in the early 1980s. The original western terminus was in Tuscarora, but the state highway was extended to Point of Rocks around 1970. In addition to being expanded to a multi-lane divided highway in central Montgomery County beginning in the 1970s, MD 28 was relocated in downtown Rockville in the 1940s, in eastern Rockville in the 1970s, and in western Rockville in the 1990s.
context_section_description: MD 28 is one of the original Maryland state-numbered highways assigned in 1927. The highway's original western terminus was at Tuscarora, from which US 15 headed west toward Point of Rocks and north toward Frederick. MD 28 was extended west to Point of Rocks when US 15 was moved to its present course between Point of Rocks and Frederick in 1970. The state highway's original eastern terminus was at the original MD 27 in Ashton. MD 27 later became US 29; today, this is the intersection of MD 108 and MD 650. MD 28 followed MD 97 from Norbeck north to Olney, then used what is now MD 108 from Olney east to Ashton. MD 28 was truncated to Norbeck by 1946. The highway was extended from Norbeck to its present eastern terminus near Norwood, replacing what had been MD 609, in 1981.
  MD 28 originally followed Baltimore Road between downtown Rockville and east of Rock Creek.  Between 1940 and 1944, MD 28 was placed on a new grade-separated crossing of the Metropolitan Branch along Veirs Mill Road, then north on First Street to Baltimore Road.  MD 28 was rolled back from Ashton to Norbeck between 1944 and 1946. In 1969 or 1970, the controlled access portion of US 15 north of Point of Rocks was completed.  As a result, MD 85 was assigned to the old route of US 15 north of Tuscarora and MD 28 was extended west to its current terminus in Point of Rocks.  Also in 1970, the bypass of Baltimore Road in eastern Rockville was under construction.  In 1981, MD 28 was made a divided highway between downtown Rockville and Baltimore Avenue west of Rock Creek.  In 1982, the divided highway was extended from Baltimore Avenue east of Rock Creek to MD 97.
  In the mid 1990s, Key West Avenue in the western part of Rockville was completed and expanded to a six-lane divided highway. MD 28 was moved to the improved highway to bypass the parallel stretch of Darnestown Road by 1999.  Between 2002 and 2004, MD 28 was widened to a four- to six-lane divided highway between MD 124 and the west end of Key West Avenue.  In 2002, Norbeck Road was completed between the eastern terminus of MD 28 and the MD 650-MD 198 intersection.
caption: MD 28 westbound near the village of Tuscarora
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