Maryland has completed construction of a fourth lane on Route 50 eastbound over the Severn River Bridge, providing what officials expect will be congestion relief especially during the busy summer months.
Gov. Larry Hogan cut the ribbon on the new lane Monday, a month ahead of schedule, he said in a tweet, adding, “For far too long, Rt 50 at the Severn River Bridge has been a serious bottleneck that was a constant headache for many MDers.”
The $22.8 million project involved the shift of an existing median barrier and restriping the roadway between Rowe Boulevard and the state Route 450-Route 2 interchange. The bridge now offers four lanes eastbound and three westbound. The width of the lanes has been reduced from 12 to 11 feet.
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Stay the hell over there. We don't want you on Delmarva! You come across the Bay Bridge and think you are entitled to do and drive any way you want, like immigrants crossing the boarder from Mexico into the United States! STAY AWAY PLEASE, THINK ABOUT OUR HORRIBLE BY-PASS!!!!!
We will see, It goes back to three lanes right after the bridge so I believe they just move the start of the back up ahead about a half mile.
so watch out when my 12" wide boat trailer takes up a couple feet of your lane!
Hey 7:35 i comute from the shore across the bay 2 a week for the money. Its an improvement. So Lighten up francis! Traffic gonna suck today with the bikers. What is really needed us an interstate. Way to many lights on my route
You can free up traffic all you want but it will still bottle neck at the Bay Bridge.
If anything by opening up another lane you now allow more traffic to get to the bridge at the same time thus making the Bay Bridge bottle neck much worse.
Until they put another bridge somewhere else the congestion is never going to improve and if anything it will get worse.
LOL calm down Billy Bob.
100 bucks says 7:35 drives a beat up old truck with a crooked bed at 45 mph on the "HORRIBLE BY-PASS"
A fourth lane will make it easier for the low pants thugs and drug dealers to get to that promised land called Ocean City.
only to be backed up at the toll booth a few miles away. what a waste of money
lets shut the bridges down.
maybe even build a wall
Dumb comment of the day. If they didn't come here and spend money, there would be no economy on the eastern shore.
I think this is fake news... I was just across the bridge a week or two ago, and there was no construction I saw... There is no way they can build a bridge in 2 weeks...
7:35 - the 'by-pass' doesn't really go around enough - especially if you are going from 50 to 13 North...you still have all of the stoplights before you get out of town!
After the accordion action at the toll lanes, the stop light at 213 is the next major choke point. The turn lanes at 404 are only a pinch better - they should have installed a left-turn fly-over-pass and ditched the light!
7:35 who hurt you?
How can a 12 inch boat carrier take a couple of feet?
Public Education much?
It's still two lanes before the bridge, and two lanes after the bridge, to get to the Bay Bridge. Adding lanes on the Severn River Bridge solves nothing for the backups leading to the Bay Bridge. When they eliminate the toll booths for the Bay Bridge, THEN, and only then, the backups will not be ones that completely stop traffic, and will just be rolling slow downs.
8:44 you might want to stop driving because you are as blind as a bat, construction started in Sept of 2017.
You have a little boat if your trailer is only 12 inches wide.
The poultry industry, fishing industry and farming takes care of the Eastern Shore! Only thing tourism does is pay the motel taxes that goes back across the bridge for mass transit improvement and that's all.
Wonderful job Governor Hogan.
Now, please tear down the Bay Bridge.
Mr. Bob
Agree
We can.make out just fine without them
Thank you
Make 50 a 12 lane expressway from the western shore to OC. Exits every 20 miles and only clover leafs to enter and exit express way. This way 10 times more idiots can ruin the way of life on the Shore. Then charge a $50 dollar fee to cross back over Bay Bridge unless you have proven you live on the Eastern Shore 6 months and 1 day out of the year. This fee will be returned to the Eastern Shore for the destruction these idiots make.
Traffic gonna suck today with the bikers. What is really needed us an interstate. Way to many lights on my route
May 3, 2018 at 8:06 AM
It's not the bikers who screw up traffic. My guess is it is people like you. Bikers don't want any four-wheelers anywhere near them because of the way they drive (or not). And you sound impatient, I definitely wouldn't want you or the many like you around me.
Bikers have to pay more attention to the road and traffic so hopefully, they don't get run over.
408
You have it all figured out!
1:08 You are dreaming. Those tourists spend millions in food, alcohol, retail purchases, entertainment, parking and fines. Salisbury screwed up the bypass when it was first built. It prevented the tourist money from being spent in Wicomico county. No stores before or after entrance/exits. Rofo is the only one captitalizing on it after all these years.
If they isolate the left two ez-pass lanes eastbound before the tool booths so folks can't go in and out at the last minute, that will help the ez-pass users!
12:30 - the bypass is supposed to bypass! If you're transitioning from 50 to 13, you get screwed because they allowed construction and stop lights north of the bypass!
For those that don't give a crap about smallsberry, the bypass is great!
Life on delmarva was so much better without all the bridges, which includes bay bridge tunnel. It belonged to the locals. No family of ECI, OC and coast line belonged to locals. Peace and quiet. No fear of being mugged. No littering. Assateaque was for the horses. No bike week roaring in. Unless you are old, you wonder what planet I lived on.
8:21 Great business plan - let's divert all the people coming from elsewhere with money to spend away from businesses in Salisbury/Wicomico county. Smart planning would have put retail space and restaurants at 50 west of bypass and 50 east of bypass. You put a baseball stadium at 50 east that no tourists are going to stop at.
Salisbury/Wicomico county did very well without tourist. It is THE LOVE OF MONEY that changed us from small town atmosphere to GHETTO. We had Acorn drive in, movie theater, downtown shops Woolworth, etc. Read some of George Chevallier articles to see what it was like.
1:23 I lived here and remember those things but the local mentality of resisting change and any new ideas drove this area into the ground. Small cities that adapted to change are prospering, here not so much.
Then we have gone from being drove into the ground to being buried underground by,and I reiterate, the ghetto.
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