BERLIN– Residents shared frustration regarding Route 90 and Route 589 traffic at a recent meeting in Ocean Pines.
Several residents brought up the need for the widening of Route 90 and Route 589 at a town hall meeting hosted by Worcester County Commissioner Chip Bertino last Wednesday. Officials stressed that both were state roads but said they would continue advocating for improvements and communicating with representatives of the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).
“We’ll have a better gauge this summer when we meet with them one on one,” said Weston Young, the county’s chief administrative officer.
At Bertino’s meeting at the Ocean Pines library last week, Young told attendees that county staff communicated regularly with MDOT and Maryland’s State Highway Administration (SHA) regarding projects in Worcester County. He said each year, the county sent MDOT a letter outlining local transportation priorities. He said at the moment, staff wanted to make sure progress continued on Route 90, which then-Gov. Larry Hogan announced some funding for in 2021.
“Governor Hogan and his staff have put a lot of things in motion that hopefully it’ll be hard to unwind and we can work towards dualization of Route 90 then we can focus on our other needs such as dualization of Route 589,” Young said.
Getting ready to Fkk up the roads for the busiest Time of year NO DOUBT !!!!!
There is no money folks….and Hogan is gone. Route 50 bridge needs replacing way before billions are spent to add new bridges, overpasses, exit ramps to dualize route 90. 90 east still ends at coastal highway and west bound to a 2 lane route 50 west.
Not worth it, nor the money.