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.
I have not heard any discussion on increased traffic and what safety precautions are being considered. I have not heard of how the traffic are going to be enforced for the increased speeding and more aggressive drivers. The more traffic on a larger highway creates a higher danger and less safety for other drivers. What is the speed on these highways now? what is the percentage of reckless drivers on these highways now. The last time I took these highways I had to drive 70mph or be pushed and when I got on the ISLAND. What is going to be constructed to get on and off BEACHWAY TO 90W or 90E to BEACH HIGHWAY NORTH? I was cut off or pushed on BEACH HIGHWAY. Will MDDOT, Maryland HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, BE RESPOSIBLE FOR THE LAWSUITS, since they approved a destructive highway? WHAT IDIOTS COME UP WITH THESE ALFRED E. HEWMAN PLANS for diseater?
i got a better idea, How about all those op residents go back to where the hell they came from!
oh thats right you moved here to get away from people like yourselves, now you are destroying this area like you did the last place you lived. damn plague!
I’m wondering if there is any truth for SHA to make one of those stupid traffic circles – The little ole blue hairs can barley negotiate things as they are, but can you imagine what will happen if they do that? Geesh!