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MPO outlines Safer Neuse Boulevard concept to seek federal RAISE grant; commissioners raise landowner, congestion concerns
Summary
The Metropolitan Planning Organization presented a concept for Neuse Boulevard improvements — including a road diet, shared-use path, bike lanes, signal changes and a proposed pedestrian hybrid beacon — to support a RAISE grant application. Commissioners asked about travel-time impacts, emergency access and outreach to property owners.
Deanna Treble, representing the Metropolitan Planning Organization, presented a conceptual design for a Safer Neuse Boulevard project the MPO plans to include in an upcoming RAISE grant application.
Treble said the project limits run from Glen Burnie to First Street and describe treating most of Neuse Boulevard as a three-lane corridor with a center turn lane, new sidewalks, bike lanes, a shared-use path on the north side and signal modifications. Treble said the proposal would keep four lanes at Glen Burnie but add pedestrian crosswalks and a shared-use path that ties to existing facilities. She described a proposed pedestrian hybrid beacon near Longview…
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