More on the US 113/Snow Hill bypass

December 28, 2006 by webmaster.

I finally had the opportunity to drive the new dualized section of US 113 around Snow Hill last week.  The new lanes area nice drive… though there’s still a bit of finishing work to do.

Also… I suppose to make the highway more “expressway” like, crossover intersections at Brick Kiln Road and Castle Hill Road have been closed off.  That’s really going to upset some of the locals… but it’s safer for the mass majority.

They also has the foresight to put a stub at the northern end of the bypass… to be used whenever the funding is available for the next phase of US 113 dualization.

IMO… Maryland has really dropped the ball when it comes to US 113.  Delaware has had US 113 entirely dualized for years now… and only recently has Maryland started upgrading the highway (with the exceptions of the Berlin bypass and from Pocomoke to Snow Hill… which was upgraded in the 70s).  Traffic counts are steadily increasing… and population influx into Worcester County is skyrocketing.  Maryland needs to step up and get this highway finished… instead of just putting rumble strips along the center line of the highway and having mandatory “headlights on” zones… which are never enforced.

Come on Maryland… get with the program.  Spend some money on highway upgrades somewhere other than the Baltimore/DC metro area.  We can use a little bit of that transportation money over here on the Eastern Shore also, you know?

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