Maryland Transportation Authority has issued the following traffic pattern bulletin:
All work will be performed weather permitting. The MDTA urges motorists to drive with caution and obey all traffic-control devices and lane-control signals. Headlights are required at all times on the bridge. Lane closures are subject to change and closure times are dependent on traffic volumes.
Reminder: the right lane on the westbound span will be closed 24/7 for roadwork starting Sept. 30.
Expect major delays in both directions.
The westbound span may be closed Sunday from midnight to 5. a.m. the following morning, Monday through Wednesday from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning, Thursday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning and Saturday from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning for preservation/maintenance work or routine annual inspections. Two-way traffic will operate on the eastbound span during the full westbound span closures.
Monday through Thursday, one lane will be closed for approximately 15 minutes for contractor pick-up.
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Mordecai E Buckingham says
Attention Governor & Board of Public Works; It’s time to hold your secretary of transportation accountable for this mess. Open tolls while you continue to screw Maryland’s taxpayer. Most grossly mismanaged transportation system in the world!!!!! SHAME!!! Even on a Sunday morning you’ve endangered our public till 11 AM!!!!!! UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!
Donald G Biggar says
This has already proven to be inaccurate. Yesterday (Sunday) morning at 8 o’clock, the westbound span was still entirely closed.
3 hours late. Even at that hour the back up was tremendous.
We do not expect the contractor to keep to this supposed schedule.
MDTA should be posting far more realistic time frames, for our safety at the very least.
David Etheridge says
Time to come into the 21st Century and loose the toll booths and install overhead readers that can read EZ Pass and tags for billing. Retrain displaced toll takers to process toll invoices sent to vehicle owners. Nothing good comes from merging 10 lanes into two after going through the toll booths.
Ann Miller says
I concur. I’ve got to head over to Glen Burnie on Wednesday and I’m already dreading it!
Brian Haines says
I could not agree more. 3 lanes into 11 toll lanes back into 2 lanes on the bridge, if we’re lucky!! That is such a ridiculous system. I think there should only be at the most 4 toll lanes.