The Mid Atlantic region has long needed a bypass of Interstate 95 through Baltimore and Washington. US 301 would make a good bypass if upgraded to freeway standards from the Delaware Maryland line to I 95 at Fredericksburg, Virginia. US 13 south of Dover, Delaware should be upgraded to a freeway to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. There is a plan for an Interstate 87 to run from Raleigh to Norfolk. If the two projects were linked and connected with tolled Delaware 1, that would serve as a bypass running from Wilmington, Delaware to Raleigh.
It will probably never happen.
The fine state of Virginia has been talking about widening I-81 for 20 years. Closer to home, talking about widening VA 28 for as long.
Meanwhile, they apparently don’t even have the money or manpower to trim vegetation from street signs or fill potholes or fix broken traffic signals.
301 in Virginia runs straight from Dahlgren (Maryland border) to Richmond, then parallels I-95 to North Carolina.