Editing Prince Frederick, Maryland (section)

==Transportation==
[[Image:MD Route 2-4.svg|100px|right|thumb|Solomons Island Road, the main Calvert County artery]]

'''Solomons Island Road''' is the major north–south artery through Prince Frederick and carries two Maryland Route designations: [[Maryland Route 2]], which runs from [[Baltimore]] to [[Solomons, Maryland|Solomons]], and [[Maryland Route 4]], an extension of [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Pennsylvania Avenue]] from [[Washington, D.C.]], which continues past Solomons over the
[[Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge]] across the [[Patuxent River]] to [[St. Mary's County, Maryland|St. Mary's County]]. Route 4 was dualized in the mid-1970s, and commuter buses run on it to Washington. Routes 2 and 4 join north of Prince Frederick near [[Sunderland, Maryland|Sunderland]]. Route 2 from there north is only a two-lane road to [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]].

In 2009, a portion of Route 2–4 in Prince Frederick was widened to three lanes in each direction.

[[Maryland Route 231]] (Hallowing Point Road) intersects Solomons Island Road and runs west, ultimately crossing the Patuxent River and continuing into [[Charles County, Maryland|Charles County]]. [[Maryland Route 402]] (Dares Beach Road) leads east to [[Dares Beach, Maryland|Dares Beach]] on Chesapeake Bay. [[Maryland Route 765]] serves as Prince Frederick's Main Street and provides access to the courthouse and government center.

In the mid-1990s, a series of new loop roads and side streets were approved in Prince Frederick in order to divert local traffic off Route 2-4 and alleviate thru-traffic congestion. The first of these roads, Prince Frederick Boulevard, has been completed between Maryland Route 231 and Stoakley Road. A second portion of the road, Chesapeake Boulevard, opened in 2010 on the eastern side of Route 2-4 and provides access to the new Calvert Middle School. Additional roads are planned around the southern portions of town.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.co.cal.md.us/assets/OngoingRoadProjects.pdf| author=Calvert County Department of Public Works| title=Ongoing Road Projects Status Report| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410072212/http://www.co.cal.md.us/assets/OngoingRoadProjects.pdf| archive-date=2008-04-10}}</ref>