OCEAN CITY — The future dualization of Route 90 remains a possibility, but it now appears the path to get the project approved could be a little rockier.
On Tuesday, State Highway Administration (SHA) officials briefed the Mayor and Council on a variety of projects in various stages of the planning or completion process in and around the resort area and, inevitably, the discussion came around to the proposed future dualization of Route 90. For years, Ocean City officials have expressed a desire for Route 90 improvements including expanding the highway and its bridges from the current two lanes to four to ease access in and out of the resort for the public, and perhaps more importantly emergency services including fire apparatus and ambulances, for example.
Formal letters have been written to SHA expressing the town’s desire to have Route 90 moved up the priority list for Worcester County. Heretofore, SHA has been the agency with which Ocean City has made multiple formal and informal requests for improvements to Route 90.
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Come up the cash yourself oc if you want it that bad. You write enough tickets and have enough fees.
ReplyDeleteWidening Rt 90 will only make it a bigger parking lot in the summertime. How can they not see this? OC can't handle anymore vehicles, that's why it gets so backed up.
ReplyDeleteAll people would have to do is not come for one summer and put on social media they aren't going to deal with the traffic anymore, let all the tax revenue from OC dissappear, and the project would be started asap. Pretty simple if you ask me. This is the new world of politics, only tax loss and public outrage get anything done anymore. Learn it, use it, and benefit from it.
ReplyDeleteFrom Rt 50 to Rt 589 most of the road bed was laid out when the original highway was built. You can still see it in the woods on the side of the highway. One major obstacle will be the bridge going over Ocean Parkway in the Pines. The original plan was to cut Ocean Pines in half, if they wanted a bridge they had to pay for it hence the narrow overpass in the Pines. Wonder who will pay for the new one?
ReplyDeletethat means they will have to widen 90 all the way to 50. Then you will have a bottleneck entering 50 which means more accidents and severe amount of rubbernecking from those idiots. There should be a limit on vehicles aloud on the island just like Assateague.
ReplyDeleteI agree with 11:28...only so many vehicles will fit into OC and once it gets backed up on Coastal Hwy. it doesn't matter how many lanes are going in. The only benefit I can see is if there was an evacuation needed during the summer months. My guess is they will need another 5 million dollar study to figure it out.
ReplyDeleteKeep ignoring the bigger issue and that's the route 50 bridge. That needs to be replaced way before adding 2 bridges to Route 90. Need better resource mgmt. in City Hall!
ReplyDeleteThere was mention about raising the money? HAHAHAHAAHHA Can't raise what you've already spent. Plus City Hall still cannot handle the boardwalk peddler issue, what makes anyone think they can raise money?
$3M for a coastal highway WALL that is NOT needed!!!! The season hasn't started yet, and City Hall is puckering!!!!!