Maryland Route 218
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| Suitland Road | ||||
Maryland Route 218 highlighted in red
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| Maintained by MDSHA | ||||
| Length: | 1.64 mi (2.64 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1927 – present | |||
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| West end: | Suitland Road at the District of Columbia boundary in Suitland | |||
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 MD 458 in Suitland |
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| Counties: | Prince George's | |||
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Maryland Route 218 (MD 218) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Suitland Road, the highway runs 1.64 miles (2.64 km) from Southern Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary east to MD 458 in Suitland. MD 218 provides access to the Suitland Federal Center, which is home to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state highway was constructed in the late 1920s and widened in the early 1940s and again in the late 1940s. The county portion of Suitland Road was reconstructed by the state in the mid-1950s.
MD 218 begins at Southern Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary. Suitland Road continues west into Washington to an intersection with Alabama Avenue in the Fairfax Village neighborhood. MD 218 heads southeast as a two-lane road between apartment complexes and crosses Oxon Run. The highway passes between Cedar Hill Cemetery to the north and Lincoln Memorial and Washington Memorial cemeteries to the south. East of the cemeteries, MD 218 gains a center turn lane and passes between Suitland Manor neighborhood on the north and Suitland Federal Center on the south; the federal center's main tenant is the U.S. Census Bureau. The state highway reaches its eastern terminus in the center of Suitland at MD 458 (Silver Hill Road). Suitland Road continues southeast as a county highway through a diamond interchange with Suitland Parkway, the town of Morningside, and a half-diamond interchange with the Capital Beltway to its terminus at MD 337 (Allentown Road) on the edge of Andrews Air Force Base.
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