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Friday, June 03, 2016

City Council Continues To Push Route 90 As Priority Road Project

OCEAN CITY — Ocean City continues to push for moving the future dualization of Route 90 further up the county’s priority list of State Highway Administration (SHA) projects, but improvements to the corridor appear to lag behind in the state’s pecking order.

On Tuesday, SHA officials briefed the Mayor and Council on a variety of projects in various stages of its planning pipeline in and around the resort. Inevitably, the discussion came around to the proposed future dualization of Route 90, a major entranceway to the resort.

For years, Ocean City officials have expressed their desire to see Route 90 prioritized ahead of the Route 50 Bridge, for example, but it remains mired behind other major highway projects in Worcester County, most notably Route 113. For the last two decades or so, the state has been dualizing Route 113 from the Delaware line to south of Snow Hill in a somewhat piecemeal fashion due largely to funding issues.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should see the underside of the rt50 bridge into oc,fish there alot and it looks to me like it needs attention

Anonymous said...

You can double the road's capacity, build new bridges. But you can't make coastal highway bigger. You still have a mess. You can put a 5 gallon funnel on a pint bottle, but it ain't real smart

Sand Box John said...

MD 90 should be upgraded to 4 lanes before anything is done at the US-50 drawbridge.

Sand Box John