From the State Highway Administration: Crews Spreading Salt, Chemicals and Plowing as Needed More than 1,400 people are actively fighting today’s storm, which is dropping several inches of snow across much of Maryland. Crews from the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) and Transportation Authority (MDTA) loaded dump trucks with salt this morning and were in […]
Rocks Do Over: Route 24 Project To Begin Anew With Promise Of Cooperation
The State Highway Administration has wiped its slate clean and will be starting anew on plans to repair Route 24 through Rocks State Park – this time promising to work in concert with a contingent of scientists, planners, environmentalists, elected officials and citizen activists. During the first meeting of the DNR/SHA Advisory Committee for MD […]
Saving The Rocks: SHA To Reevaluate Plans For Blasting In State Park
The Maryland State Highway Administration is backing away from an aggressive highway improvement plan, which would have closed portions of Rocks State Park for several months in each of the next two summers while demolition crews blasted away portions of the historic boulders that give the park its name. The Route 24 Slope Protection Project, […]
Rocky Road: The Explosive $9 Million Plan To Improve Route 24
A $9.25 million State Highway Administration project to widen and shift Route 24 away from the eroding Deer Creek stream bank through Rocks State Park will involve dynamite blasting the famous geologic structures which give the popular park its name. Beginning next year, crews will shift Rocks Road, Maryland Route 24, 10 feet away from […]
Sgt VanSeeters of HCSO Wins National Highway Safety Award
NATIONAL SHERIFFS’ ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES 2008 RECIPIENT OF THE J. STANNARD BAKER AWARD FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY (July 10, 2009, Bel Air, MD) — Sergeant Joseph VanSeeters of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office was honored Tuesday, June 23, 2009 during the National Sheriffs’ Association Annual Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He was the 2008 recipient of the […]
Sen. Mikulski Announces Major Federal Investments In Maryland Transportation Projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act includes funding for key Maryland transportation projects and fulfills her promise to help communities manage growth related to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission’s […]
