Upcoming schedule changes for Rest Areas and Welcome Centers

Beginning December 7th, in order to continue providing rest area services during challenging economic times, the State Highway Administration (SHA) is modifying service hours to primarily daytime hours at several rest areas.

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Crews dig out truck following successful use of runaway truck ramp traveling down Backbone Mountain on MD 135.

SAFETY MEASURE SAVES LIVES

Travel along MD 135 (Maryland Highway) down Backbone Mountain in Bloomington ends with a 90 degree right turn, which can be difficult to navigate, at a high rate of speed. In recent years the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) has enhanced safety by adding three mandatory truck pull off areas requiring truck drivers to stop and verify their brakes are functioning properly.

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Learn more about some of the best driving tours in the nation.

Four additional Maryland Byways are now designated as America’s Byways.

Four additional Maryland Byways – stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Catoctin Mountains – are now designated as America’s Byways.

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ICC - Notice for Public Tolling Comment

The public is invited to comment on proposed toll ranges for the Intercounty Connector.

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VOTE to make the MD 32/Burntwoods the People's Choice in Transportation Award Winner for 2009!

Maryland won the Grand Prize for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and two America's Best awards in 2008 for the Rowe Blvd. project and the York Road Revitalization project. Your vote could help win the People’s Choice Award for 2009.

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New Laws take effect October 1st!

Automated Speed Enforcement (Speed Cameras) in work and school zones.
Impaired Driving Laws (Press release)
Text Driving Law (Press release)

Governor Martin OMalley signs speed camera law into effect

Maryland's New Speed Camera Law

Governor Martin O'Malley is pictured here with advocates for the new speed camera bill recently signed into law. Senate Bill 277 permits the use of speed cameras in highway work zones and within a one half mile radius of Maryland schools.

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Maryland’s Official 2009-2010 Highway Map now available

Now available: Maryland’s Official 2009-2010 Highway Map with vibrant details of every route and interstate from east, west, north and south. Larger, with improved easy-to-read text, the map includes a new tourism informational panel, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport parking map and larger insets of the Baltimore/Washington area and Central Historic Annapolis.

An example of a Goldhofer trailer, which will ship the transformer from Havre de Grace, MD to Peach Bottom.

SHA to assist Exelon Nuclear with half-million pound transformer move through Harford County

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) and the Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA) are assisting Exelon Nuclear with a major oversized vehicle transport through northeastern Harford County scheduled to begin 9 p.m. Monday night, July 27.

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