SHA Decides Against Traffic Light at Busy Route 113 Intersection

Courtesy of WBOC:

SNOW HILL- A heated debate over a busy Route 113 intersection near Snow Hill has come to an end.

Maryland State Highway Administration officials decided not to add a traffic light at the Route 12 intersection. The road changed from two lanes to four back in December. Five accidents have occurred there since then, all with injuries.

SHA District Engineer Donnie Drewer said a study of the road concluded a traffic light is not needed at the intersection.

But local drivers say it is the only way to keep them safe.

“When you’re trying to cross the intersection you’ll have so much more of a traffic flow of people going toward Virginia, toward Ocean City,” said Leigh Ann Vreeland of Snow Hill. “I think they’re setting up a lot of people for a lot of problems here.”

Drewer say drivers need to get used to the dualization.

“You drive something daily, the same thing over and over again and you just get use to it,” he said. “And when there’s a change put in, you don’t realize there was a change and that’s when there’s an accident.”

Drewer said the SHA plans to add more yield signs and rumble strips along Route 113.

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