Hogan announces $1.97 billion in transportation funding
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced nearly two billion dollars in funding for transportation across the state.
On Thursday, Gov. Hogan announced that $1.97 billion would be allotted to transportation funding, for a total of 84 projects. Of that, $1.35 billion is for new projects to go to construction, including $845 million for major projects and $500 million to fix bridges and improve roads, while the remaining $625 million is for preserved projects.
“Today, I’m delivering on my promise to provide nearly $2 billion in funding to our highways and bridges across the state,” said Governor Hogan. “This investment not only will move long-awaited highway projects into construction, so that Maryland families and businesses will benefit from safer, smoother roads, but also it will address every single structurally deficient bridge in the state. Building, maintaining, and fixing Maryland’s roads and bridges is a top priority of our administration.”
Some of that funding is headed right here to the Eastern Shore. In the $845 million of new funds for top priority projects is the widening of Route 404, and Route 113. Route 404 will go from two lanes to four, with a median from US 50 to the Denton Bypass in Talbot and Caroline Counties. Route 113 will also get two additional lanes, and a median, from Five Mile Branch Road to north of Public Landing Road, in Worcester County.
Gov. Hogan also announced funding of $168 million, scaled back from the proposed $700 million, for a streamlined plan for the Purple Line, a metro line that would connect Bethesda in Montgomery County to New Carrollton in Prince George’s County.
The $1.97 billion in 84 projects also includes:
· $790 million for 10 projects that support economic development
· $250 million to repave 1,959 lane miles of highway
· $355 million to improve safety in 25 locations
· $25 million to fix drainage and keep roads from flooding in 10 locations
· $355 million for 13 projects to improve traffic flow
· $195 million to repair 26 bridges
The $195 million to repair 26 bridges will be combined with $830.7 million in existing state funds to fix the current list of 70 state-owned structurally deficient bridges and maintain existing bridges.
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