Chesapeake Bay Bridge - It’s Time for a Replacement Span
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2022
- Anne Arundel and Queen Anne’s County Officials Want Your Support for a Replacement Bay Bridge
Traffic in Maryland surrounding the aging Chesapeake Bay Bridge is a problem that has grown out of hand. Queen Anne's County Commissioners and Anne Arundel County Council have now partnered with multiple Maryland counties in agreement that it is time to build a replacement span, and to move forward with the Tier 2 NEPA Study.
It's time to make your voice heard. We encourage Maryland residents to reach out to your local representatives and give your support for a replacement Bay Bridge. mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsit...
You may also review the findings of the Tier 1 Study at the following website
www.baycrossingstudy.com/
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I hope when they build a new bridge, they include a train that goes over it all the way to Ocean City. If not, you will not solve the problem. And I know it will be people sitting at the table saying we don’t need a train for whatever reason, but those are the people that make the dumbest decision. You need a railway to go over that bridge to move people to eliminate the traffic and cars from being on it.
An 80 lane tunnel with overhead airplane space wouldn't solve the problem. All you're doing is inviting more congestion and mayhem.
You read my mind.
Kid who grew up in MD here. Back in the day, Kent Narrows Drawbridge openings would back up traffic. They fixed that. MD likes “gimmick” solutions. Contraflow is incredibly dangerous, so they lower the speed limit to “school zone” speeds. Tolls are already charged, so replacement funding, from a legal standpoint shouldn’t be a problem. If NY could quickly replace the Tappen Zee Bridge and FL could rapidly replace the Sunshine State Skyway after a ship wrecked into it, Maryland is just making excuses, and their citizens “just take it” instead of demanding better from their governments!!
A replacement bridge WILL NOT alleviate the gridlock along Rt. 50 through Queen Anne's County. This is a major safety concern for the Dept of Emergency Services and the local population.
They would need something along the lines of the new Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge or the New Tappan Zee Bridge (5 lanes in each direction), plus Express Toll Lanes (like that found on I-95 between I-895 north of Baltimore to White Marsh) on both sides of the bridge.
How about a tunnel, the way SF did it for BART several years ago. If a new bridge is built, can they make it wide enough and with high enough guardrails to not scare the p*** out of people?
I agree with others. Building a new bridge would only be a short term fix. The roads supporting a bridge wouldn't handle more traffic. Also, if you build a larger bridge then more people will come.
You need to decide if you really want more people.
Any bridge must include at least 2 train tracks. You need to move people and freight from the roads, to the rails.
They're definitely going to have to replace that old bridge so when they build a new one why not include a span for passenger trains?
They've done studies on trains and found that trains would only reduce traffic by as little as 2% iirc
@@MrCrappyProduction Can i see the studies?
Come on Hogan. Lets get this project started. Its hell coming back from O.C.
This could provide an opportunity to extend I-97 across Chesapeake Bay and than southbound on the Delmarva Peninsula. Currently I-97 only goes from Baltimore to Annapolis which is only 30 miles which is awfully short for a mainline interstate.
YES ! Into Norfolk. NC needs a coastal interstate to remove traffic from I-95 (Which is being widened to 8 lanes) , and to serve the coastal communities.
Future it could extend further to NewBern NC, Wilmington NC (where I live), Charleston and terminate in Savannah.
Also, Heading North From Queenstown could be a spur route I-297 to go back to I-95.
Well north of the spans not near Annapolis. Or Kent Island. Baltimore county to eastern shore.
Agree with your basic viewpoint.
Adding another span of the bridge will not help traffic flow. Because people will still have to drive on 97 and 50 which both become backed up due too traffic issues in Annapolis before you get to the bridge now due to small traffic issues. The reality is that they don’t want to pay to connect 695 or 100 to the shore which would alleviate traffic from the north going to Annapolis to cross which is the biggest issue.
Eight lanes will not solve the traffic problems. I see that because there are not eight lanes leading to the bridge itself from either direction. So you will have a back up on that bridge. If you want to alleviate or get rid of some of that back up, you must have a railway that go across the bridge through the projected counties all the way to Ocean City. That way, the train/railway will take some of the load off of the traffic issues. I’m speaking of a train similar to the light rail. It will be less cars on the road which means less cars on the bridge if you add a train. And yes, the train have to make stops in certain counties while traveling to Ocean City. That’s the best way to do this and his best to do it from the beginning and not try to add it later. Philadelphia have a similar bridge that has a train on it also. Just build the one in Maryland better than that one. I will also say you need a bridge from Woodbridge Virginia area to Maryland.
Wait until you are stuck on the bridge and it fails! You all go swimming or drown! Politicians wouldn't raise taxes to fix something & lie to you about it, would they?
Tear both bridges down and let the people move on to other areas of our great country. There are too many people jammed up in such a small area. The lure of living on the bay ended when the fish and other sea life were killed off by green-lawn-fertilizer pollution. I say let's bring the bay back to a wildlife paradise and end the constant encroachment on their home. No one doubts the demise of the 'hard-head' (croaker) population during the original construction in 1952. How dare we think another span will do any good to the creature populations.
Having grown up in the area and watched the demise of a once flourishing bay, it sickens me to see more of the same being proposed. I myself moved on many years ago after seeing the diminished quality of life, both wildlife and human.
This type of thing is happening on major US CITIES PROBABLY ON BOTH COASTS . New York/New Jersey needs it badly . The longer the wait the traffic snarls and pollution will increase
PLEASE BUILD A TRAIN BRIDGE. Another span will not stop the massive amounts of traffic. When people see a new bridge they will want to use it, leaving traffic just as bad even worse as it was. We need a train to connect baltimore and OC. The East coast will be destroyed by the highway, once quiet towns like rock hall will probobly be turned into sprawl, just as stevensville was on kent island.
No. Trains go no where. Nobody wants to ride a stupid train. Cali tried a train and they've taken a billion or so bath on it because nobody wants it.
why not build a bridge tunnel just like the lower bay. It would more cost effective than a bridge in the long run.
Build baby build. It can't happen too soon!!
After what just happened in Baltimore, they should be considering a tunnel there as well as on US-50.
My solution would be a tunnel as on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
No bridge over the shipping channel.
I sketched out a 4-lane bridge-tunnel there for US-50 eastbound traffic. Island near the west anchorage, another near the east end of the eastern channel span. Just south of the two current bridges. About 9,000 foot long tunnel.
Someday in the future when the current bridges wear out they can be replaced with 4-lane bridge-tunnel for westbound traffic.
? The older span 1952 (Northbound) is getting a new decking 2023-2025. The newer span Westbound 1972 isn't. So which span are they 'replacing', or is this just a new addition?
I see requests for the new span to be 8 lanes. [ could be 5 westbound, median, 3 that are interchangable] with the other two bridges both Eastbound 5 total.
I left the area 30 years ago so I really don't have a dog in the hunt. It does seem that a new bridge is in order. The original bridge is over 70 years old. There should be one cable stayed bridge to replace the two current spans. I am not aware of any protection to the bridge piers to keep them safe from a cargo ship.
As for a train...no train could possibly climb the grade required for the bridge to cross the Bay and allow for ship clearance. A separate bridge with a drawbridge would need to be built.
Just my opinions. It's your problem, Maryland, and it's a big problem.
You're so right Ct! Take a look at Huey Long Bridge(New Orleans)! It carries Amtrak from Chicago! And they made it wider! We need this idea NJ-STATEN IS.,NY.
Actually, it's Amtrack's "Sunset Limited" train that goes over the Huey Long Bridge, not the "City of New Orleans".
Respectfully, scare tactics never really glean positive results. Your soapboxing viewpoint is yours.
Yeah. It is time for a new one. 8 lanes is not enough. I would recommend it to be a double deck bridge with a total of 12 lanes.(6 on the top, 6 on the bottom.) Just a suggestion...
But what will happen when you go from 6 to 3 lanes?
Great idea! Have 2 “truck only” lanes so cars and trucks can each “do their thing” separately. Yeah, have to expand the departures to 4 lanes each way until get to next major junctions either way.
According to your thinking we might just as well pave over the entire bay.
What are they going to do with the scariest bridge in Maryland?
Why not a Tunnel?
Replace the 50s bridge and modernize the 70s one.
Why does Larry Hogan own all the land where a bridge can be built?
Larry Hogan doesn't own the land, the State of MD does.
Is the state of Maryland going pay for it or beg for the rest of the USA taxpayers to foot the bill? It is a Maryland problem, no one else's
The need is for the designation of Future I-97 and building thereof along the US-301 corridor southward from US-50 to I-95/VA-207.
That is how capacity should be increased on the I-95 corridor to parallel and bypass I-95 and I-495 and the Washington area.
I disagree with having any extension of I-97. My position that 97 should be decommissioned and its roadway be made an an extension of I-70.
@@rayfridley6649
I-70 would have a missing section between I-695 and I-97.
My I-97 proposal would be a perfect use of that number.
Deportations would solve problem.
More studies and no action. Does Maryland really not want a new bridge or is the state that badly managed. The recent bridge collapse suggests the latter. Delaware has a twin span with 8 lanes total that fully opened in 1969, so this isn't some new-fangled concept or never been done before.
All they thonk abput is tge boats tgey have no concern for drivers safety
I don't like anything Jim Moran wants he only wants the bridge there because he owns a cement plant on the west side of the bridge and he will probably get the bid and make a lot of money.
1:17 you just put on a tape
Get immigrants to build it…all those doctors and engineers
Y'all screwed.
Maryland's highway system is a joke
A new bigger bridge won't solve anything. In fact it will make the problem worse. After a new bridge is built, commute times will go down temporarily. During that time, even more people than before will move/vacation to the east shore and then uh oh, now we're gonna need an even bigger bridge to "solve" the traffic problems.
I would rather build up more infrastructure to promote public transport than just adding more lanes for cars.
More bridge will just make more traffic.
Go back to the ferries. I HATE that awful goddamn scary bridge.