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County transportation plan update outlines priorities: FDR Boulevard, Route 5 and Thomas Johnson Bridge
Summary
Deputy director John Broker presented an updated countywide transportation plan, highlighting population and traffic projections, prioritized projects (FDR Boulevard phases, Route 5/Great Mills improvements, Thomas Johnson Bridge), sidewalk ADA retrofits and near-term funding and design timelines.
John Broker, deputy director with the Department of Public Works and Transportation, presented an updated St. Mary’s County transportation plan at the Oct. 28 Economic Development Commission meeting and outlined short-, medium- and long-range priorities.
Broker said the county’s 2006 plan has not been comprehensively updated but that he had incorporated more recent studies and projections. He told the commission population projections for 2025 have risen: the 2006 projection of 120,000 was updated to about 137,000, and jobs were projected in earlier work to rise from roughly 49,000 to 66,000. Traffic was forecast to increase substantially, concentrating delays on Route 235 and Route 4 corridors.
Why it matters: Broker said several corridors and intersections are projected to reach failing levels of service by 2025 unless improvements are made. The plan lists projects that the county can advance and others that require state…
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