Charles Street Ramp to Close February
4th...
On or about 8 p.m. Thursday night,
February 4, the Maryland Department of Transportation’s
State Highway Administration (SHA) will begin a long-term temporary
closure of the left-turn ramp from southbound MD 139 (Charles Street) to
eastbound I-695 (Baltimore Beltway Inner Loop), weather permitting.
As of 6 a.m. Friday morning, February 5, the left-turn ramp from
southbound Charles Street to eastbound I-695 will be closed to all
traffic, and motorists approaching the Charles Street Interchange from
Lutherville will be directed to use the official ramp detour route:
north/eastbound Bellona Avenue to eastbound Seminary Avenue (MD131)
to southbound MD 45 (York Road) to the York Road Interchange ramp to
eastbound I-695.
Also on the night of February 4, SHA and the contractor will temporarily
close the ramp from eastbound I-695 (Inner Loop) to northbound Charles
Street for one night, between 8 p.m. Thursday and 5 a.m. Friday to shift
traffic patterns on this ramp. Motorists will be diverted past the
Charles Street Interchange to the York Road Interchange, to westbound
I-695 (Outer Loop) back to the Charles Street Interchange to northbound
Charles Street.
In
case of inclement weather, the traffic pattern changes and long-term
ramp closure will take place on Sunday night, February 7 or the next
possible weeknight.
The
long-term temporary closure of the ramp from southbound Charles Street
to eastbound I-695 is necessary for Phase Two of construction work on
the new Charles Street bridge over I-695; crews will shortly begin work
on a retaining wall for the east side of the new bridge. The
right-turn ramp from northbound Charles Street to eastbound I-695 will
remain open.
Temporary traffic signs will guide motorists through the official detour
route in Lutherville and the ramp closure will remain in effect until
early fall 2010. The State’s contractor for the I-695/Charles
Street Interchange project is the Six-M
Company of Delta, Pa. The entire Charles Street Interchange
project will be complete late spring 2012, weather permitting.
For
more information about the Charles Street Interchange project, citizens
may view lane closure updates, interchange diagrams, and other project
information on the SHA project web page on
www.roads.maryland.gov. Citizens may also contact Mr. David
Bond, Project Engineer, at SHA’s project field office in Lutherville at
410-296-9041, through the project web page, or by email at dbond@sha.state.md.us.
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