A year and a half after a local teenager was killed trying to cross the highway, crews from Maryland’s State Highway Administration (SHA) have completed $128,000 in improvements to the intersection.
“Safety is our number one priority,” said SHA spokesman Charlie Gischlar.
Gischlar said crews had just finished a variety of safety-oriented changes at the Route 113 and Bay Street intersection. The largest of those is a crosswalk complete with a countdown clock to give pedestrians visible and audible notification of how much time they have to safely cross the street. Crews have also made the intersection ADA accessible. In addition, the span wire that previously held the intersection’s traffic signals in place has been replaced with metal arms. Gischlar says the metal beams are higher than the wire was, which will make traveling the route safer for vehicles.
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4 comments:
And I watched four kids cross today with the dont walk showing
Pay ATTENTION and grow up.
Boooooooom.
That will prevent state police from talking on the phone and fiddling with the computer while pushing 80 through there while dark clothed idiots walk through the hole in the fence past the intersection to cross illegally.
I feel better now.
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