US-50 Salisbury Bypass in Maryland
Scott M. Kozel
miles of the US-50 bypass of Salisbury, a city located on the Eastern
Shore in Wicomico County. (pronounced wi-KOM-i-ko).
The US-13 bypass of Salisbury was completed by about 1980, and the
extension of the north end of the bypass westward to US-50 west of
Salisbury has been planned for almost 20 years. The 1990 MDOT SHA TIP
showed this as a priority, to be started in 1992. Finally, this
long-delayed project is under construction, and planned for completion
in 2003.
Like the rest of the Salisbury Bypass, this new section will be built to
full 4-lane freeway standards. It will include several interchanges
including an upgrade to the existing US-13/Bypass US-13 interchange
north of town. The total cost for the new highway, including
engineering, right-of-way, and construction, is $87 million.
The transition from existing US-50 west of town to the new bypass will
form a continuous highway from existing to new, with the existing
highway being tied to the new via an interchange.
The 6-lane US-50 Salisbury Thruway passes through Salisbury as a
high-speed arterial, and has one interchange, the junction of Business
US-13 and US-50. The Salisbury Thruway is a reasonably good
thoroughfare, and was completed about 1970; and has provided good
service over the years, but it is not adequate (and hasn't been for at
least 10 years) for the heavy volumes of beach-bound traffic from the
Baltimore-Washington area, added to the local traffic.
So, this is GOOD NEWS!
Excerpts:
http://www.mdot.state.md.us/cgi-bin/mdotnews/news_display_choice.pl?item
=9
"SALISBURY, MD (May 4, 2000) - Following through on his commitment to
enhance safety and reduce traffic congestion along US 50 in Salisbury,
Governor Parris N. Glendening today celebrated the start of construction
on the US 50 Salisbury Bypass in Wicomico County. When completed, this
project will reduce traffic on US 50 through Salisbury and provide
vacationers a clear path to the beach. The five-mile bypass will begin
along US 50 approximately three miles west of Salisbury and continue
northeast to the existing US 13 interchange".
"'With traffic nearly doubling along US 50 in the summer months, the
Salisbury Bypass will provide a safer, more convenient trip to the beach
while giving Main Street back to the citizens of Salisbury'," said
Governor Glendening. 'Improving travel on this major Eastern Shore
roadway and restoring the quality of life for Salisbury residents has
been one of our top transportation priorities on the Shore. I commend
the determination and cooperation of local elected officials, residents
and business representatives for working closely with us over the years
to fund this project'."
"The daily number of vehicles that travel along US 50 during summer
weekends increases from 15,000 to 24,000. This new road will allow
eastbound and westbound travelers to bypass the 14 traffic signals they
now encounter when driving directly through the city of Salisbury".
"'The Salisbury Bypass will have positive benefits for the Salisbury
community as well as travelers along US 50,' said Delegate Norman
Conway. 'It's great that this long-awaited project has reached the
construction phase'."
"Governor Glendening added funds to the bypass project last fall that
will allow the $87 million dollar road to be completed in 2003, three
years ahead of the original schedule".
See the URL for the rest of the release.
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Before you buy.
Jon Morse
>"SALISBURY, MD (May 4, 2000) - Following through on his commitment to
>enhance safety and reduce traffic congestion along US 50 in Salisbury,
>Governor Parris N. Glendening today celebrated the start of construction
>on the US 50 Salisbury Bypass
Interesting how Parris can "celebrate" a construction project that does not
much but help tourist traffic, but keeps waffling on a project designed to help
residents...
Jon Morse
Herndon, VA
via lots of much larger places
cbl...@my-deja.com
"Scott M. Kozel" <koz...@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
> Like the rest of the Salisbury Bypass, this new section will be built
to
> full 4-lane freeway standards. It will include several interchanges
> including an upgrade to the existing US-13/Bypass US-13 interchange
> north of town. The total cost for the new highway, including
> engineering, right-of-way, and construction, is $87 million.
>
> The transition from existing US-50 west of town to the new bypass will
> form a continuous highway from existing to new, with the existing
> highway being tied to the new via an interchange.
'Bout time. This means that Salisbury will have a 270-degree beltway-
like expressway. I wonder if this is the smallest city to have such a
thing?
Will the section of the bypass that will become the US 50/US 13
multiplex need to be widened from 4 to 6 lanes to handle the extra
traffic? I mean, US 13 is the main north-south route through the
Delmarva, and US 50 is the way to the beach from DC and Baltimore. I
would expect that during the summer the bypass would get extremely
clogged.
Chris Blaney
Mike
(about a dozen years ago), I remember a quaint town with one big
intersection, a nice college, and restaurants with good seafood. Also a
chicken plant, but I didn't spend much time there <g>. The place must have
grown a bit.
John R Cambron
>
> Scott Kozel wrote:
>
> >"SALISBURY, MD (May 4, 2000) - Following through on his commitment to
> >enhance safety and reduce traffic congestion along US 50 in Salisbury,
> >Governor Parris N. Glendening today celebrated the start of construction
> >on the US 50 Salisbury Bypass
>
> Interesting how Parris can "celebrate" a construction project that does not
> much but help tourist traffic, but keeps waffling on a project designed to > help
> residents...
This is a continuation of the seemless run to the beach that Donald
Shaffer started when he rebuilt MD US 50/301 on Kent Island.
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Scott M. Kozel
angst...@aol.comeon.com (Jon Morse) wrote:
>
> Scott Kozel wrote:
>
> >"SALISBURY, MD (May 4, 2000) - Following through on his commitment
> >to enhance safety and reduce traffic congestion along US 50 in
> >Salisbury, Governor Parris N. Glendening today celebrated the start
> >of construction on the US 50 Salisbury Bypass
>
> Interesting how Parris can "celebrate" a construction project that
> does not much but help tourist traffic, but keeps waffling on a
> project designed to help residents...
The news release said that the bypass would take the heavy US-50 through
traffic out of town, and provide for a more pleasant local thoroughfare
along the existing US-50 Salisbury Parkway (not 'Thruway' as I posted in
the lead post).
"'With traffic nearly doubling along US 50 in the summer months, the
Salisbury Bypass will provide a safer, more convenient trip to the beach
while giving Main Street back to the citizens of Salisbury', said
Governor Glendening."
My parents live in a Maryland Eastern Shore town, but it is not on US-50
(the main beach access highway). I've seen the summer beach traffic
enough times to know that getting it out of Salisbury will indeed
provide a big benefit for the locals.
BTW, my newsreader didn't hyperlink the split off "=9" at the end, and
it got a different release... You might have to cut and paste the URL
to the Address bar on your newsreader:
http://www.mdot.state.md.us/cgi-bin/mdotnews/news_display_choice.pl?item
=9
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Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
Philadelphia and Delaware Valley
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html
Scott M. Kozel
cbl...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> "Scott M. Kozel" <koz...@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
>
> > Like the rest of the Salisbury Bypass, this new section will be
> > built to full 4-lane freeway standards. It will include several
> > interchanges including an upgrade to the existing US-13/Bypass
> > US-13 interchange north of town. The total cost for the new
> > highway, including engineering, right-of-way, and construction,
> > is $87 million.
> >
> > The transition from existing US-50 west of town to the new
> > bypass will form a continuous highway from existing to new,
> > with the existing highway being tied to the new via an
> > interchange.
>
> multiplex need to be widened from 4 to 6 lanes to handle the
> the Delmarva, and US 50 is the way to the beach from DC and
> Baltimore. I would expect that during the summer the bypass would
> get extremely clogged.
I don't think so. The northeast quadrant will, as you suggest, carry a
multiplex of US-13 and US-50. Other than the 24,000 AADT summer weekend
figure that the news release cited for existing US-50 through Salisbury,
I don't know the exact traffic volumes on the other roads, although I'm
pretty sure that US-13 would be a lot less. I doubt that anywhere near
the design capacity of a 4-lane freeway will be reached in the northeast
quadrant. The bypass is a freeway, but the portions of US-50 and US-13
beyond the bypass are arterial highways.
The existing US-50 inside the area to be bypassed area is mostly 6 lanes
divided. I recall that all of US-13 that was bypassed is 4 lanes
divided or more. The 4-lane freeway bypass will still be well augmented
by the Business US-13 and Business US-50.
One thing that the news release said that I omitted, was that the
current US-50/US-13 interchange east of town will be upgraded, with $5.3
million being spent. It didn't give details, but I would presume that
the movements between US-50 Bypass and US-50 east of the bypass, will be
upgraded. The existing interchange is a full cloverleaf design, and
that amount of money should be enough for a 2-lane semi-directional ramp
for the eastbound movement, and a 2 lane widening for the existing ramp
for the westbound movement.
cbl...@my-deja.com
> I don't think so. The northeast quadrant will, as you suggest, carry
a
> multiplex of US-13 and US-50. Other than the 24,000 AADT summer
weekend
> figure that the news release cited for existing US-50 through
Salisbury,
> I don't know the exact traffic volumes on the other roads, although
I'm
> pretty sure that US-13 would be a lot less. I doubt that anywhere
near
> the design capacity of a 4-lane freeway will be reached in the
northeast
> quadrant. The bypass is a freeway, but the portions of US-50 and US-
13
> beyond the bypass are arterial highways.
Interesting. One wonders why the US 13 portion of the bypass was built
first and not the US 50 portion. Was US 13 traffic greater then than
the US 50 traffic through Salisbury?
Is it generally the policy on a "multiplex" section of highway, where
the two routes are equally major, to give more capacity to the combined
section than it would ordinarily have if it were just carrying a single
route?
Chris Blaney
Scott M. Kozel
cbl...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Scott M. Kozel wrote:
>
> > The northeast quadrant will, as you suggest,
> > carry a multiplex of US-13 and US-50. Other than the 24,000 AADT
> > summer weekend figure that the news release cited for existing
> > US-50 through Salisbury, I don't know the exact traffic volumes on
> > the other roads, although I'm pretty sure that US-13 would be a lot
> > less. I doubt that anywhere near the design capacity of a 4-lane
> > freeway will be reached in the northeast quadrant. The bypass is a
> > arterial highways.
>
> Interesting. One wonders why the US 13 portion of the bypass was built
> first and not the US 50 portion. Was US 13 traffic greater then than
> the US 50 traffic through Salisbury?
The US-13 traffic was lighter than US-50, but the US-50 Salisbury
Parkway that I mentioned earlier is a mostly 6-lane high-speed arterial
that was completed on mostly new location about 1970. US-13 for a
number of miles through Salisbury was (and is) a 4-lane and 5-lane urban
arterial with lower design speeds.
The article mentions that there are 14 traffic lights on US-50 through
town. I recall back in 1974 when my parents first started going out to
the Eastern Shore, that there probably weren't more than 5 lights. Plus
the interchange in the center of town between US-50 and US-13 (IOW no
light there; a grade separation). So the US-50 Salisbury Parkway was
(and still is) a GOOD thoroughfare, even though it is not a freeway.
IOW, in the pre-freeway days, US-50 was well ahead of US-13 in traffic
handling ability by 1970, and IMO the first priority for the Salisbury
Bypass was to bypass US-13 first.
Also, the northwest quadrant that is now just starting construction, was
originally planned to follow within a few years after the US-13 bypass
was completed about 1980.
Back in 1974, the US-13 bypass was complete from US-13 north of town, to
MD-12, where the bypass ended. About 1980, the southern half was
opened.
> Is it generally the policy on a "multiplex" section of highway, where
> the two routes are equally major, to give more capacity to the
> combined section than it would ordinarily have if it were just
> carrying a single route?
Yes, but in the case of a 4-lane freeway bypass, unless the "multiplex"
section actually warrants more than 4 lanes, there won't be a need for
more than 4.
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Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
Philadelphia and Delaware Valley
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html
Scott M. Kozel
"Mike" <alba...@xuplink.net> wrote:
>
> Multiplex?? Sheesh, I have to get out more. Last time I was in
> Salisbury (about a dozen years ago), I remember a quaint town with one
> big intersection, a nice college, and restaurants with good seafood.
> Also a chicken plant, but I didn't spend much time there <g>. The
> place must have grown a bit.
Salisbury is the metropolis of the Maryland Eastern Shore! :-)
The 1990 U.S. Census population for the city was 20,500, and the
"suburbs" probably add at least 50% more to that.
pauline groleau dumas
Scott M. Kozel a écrit dans le message <8j8nbu$4ei$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>MDOT SHA has announced the beginning of the construction of the 4.75 miles
of the US-50 bypass of Salisbury, a city located on the Eastern Shore in
Wicomico County. (pronounced wi-KOM-i-ko).
>
>
>Excerpts:
>http://www.mdot.state.md.us/cgi-bin/mdotnews/news_display_choice.pl?item=9
I'm sure than Maryland has much bigger plans with the extension of the US50
freeway to meet the US13 Salisbury by-pass.
And the much bigger plans is the construction of their "l-101"(aka DE1 which
was suppose to be l-99 if Bud didn't stoled the number) gap soon or later
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>Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
>Philadelphia and Delaware Valley
>http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html
>
Stéphane Dumas steph...@videotron.ca
Scott M. Kozel
>
> I'm sure than Maryland has much bigger plans with the extension of the US50
> freeway to meet the US13 Salisbury by-pass.
>
> And the much bigger plans is the construction of their "l-101"(aka DE1 which
> was suppose to be l-99 if Bud didn't stoled the number) gap soon or later
US-13 on the Maryland Eastern Shore is 4 lanes divided. The bypass
around Salisbury is a freeway, and most of the rest of US-13 in
Maryland, beyond the Salisbury Bypass, has partial control of access
with at-grade intersections.
US-50 on the Maryland Eastern Shore in the vicinity of Salisbury is 4
lanes divided, with the portion in Salisbury 6 lanes. Some parts are
non-controlled access highway, and other parts are partial control of
access with at-grade intersections.
I don't know of any current studies in Maryland to convert those
sections of highway, beyond the Salisbury Bypass, to full freeways.
John_Da...@acm.org
> And the much bigger plans is the construction of their "l-101"(aka DE1 which
> was suppose to be l-99 if Bud didn't stoled the number) gap soon or later
Once I-101 gets a "foot in the door", I'm starting the movement to renumber
I-238 to 1180.
rvdroz
> Once I-101 gets a "foot in the door", I'm starting the movement to renumber
> I-238 to 1180.
I think by then Caltrans will be ready to re-assign one of the not currently used x80's.
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> miles of the US-50 bypass of Salisbury, a city located on the Eastern
> Shore in Wicomico County. (pronounced wi-KOM-i-ko).
>
> extension of the north end of the bypass westward to US-50 west of
> Salisbury has been planned for almost 20 years. The 1990 MDOT SHA TIP
> showed this as a priority, to be started in 1992. Finally, this
> long-delayed project is under construction, and planned for completion
> in 2003.
13/BUS US 13.
>
> Like the rest of the Salisbury Bypass, this new section will be built
to
> full 4-lane freeway standards. It will include several interchanges
> including an upgrade to the existing US-13/Bypass US-13 interchange
> north of town. The total cost for the new highway, including
> engineering, right-of-way, and construction, is $87 million.
>
> The transition from existing US-50 west of town to the new bypass will
> form a continuous highway from existing to new, with the existing
> highway being tied to the new via an interchange.
>
> The 6-lane US-50 Salisbury Thruway passes through Salisbury as a
> high-speed arterial, and has one interchange, the junction of Business
> US-13 and US-50. The Salisbury Thruway is a reasonably good
> thoroughfare, and was completed about 1970; and has provided good
> service over the years, but it is not adequate (and hasn't been for at
> least 10 years) for the heavy volumes of beach-bound traffic from the
> Baltimore-Washington area, added to the local traffic.
>
> So, this is GOOD NEWS!
I wouldn't be surprised if they complete the circle after this project,
since at that point it'll be 3/4 done. A full beltway for a 20,000
city. The US 13/BUS US 13 interchange is going to need some work done
though - any idea how that interchange is going to be redone?
Scott M. Kozel
Ri...@capital.net wrote:
>
> "Scott M. Kozel" <koz...@richmond.infi.net> wrote:
>
> > The US-13 bypass of Salisbury was completed by about 1980, and the
> > extension of the north end of the bypass westward to US-50 west of
> > Salisbury has been planned for almost 20 years. The 1990 MDOT SHA
> > TIP showed this as a priority, to be started in 1992. Finally, this
> > long-delayed project is under construction, and planned for
> > completion in 2003.
>
> That explains the ghost ramps at the end of the expressway now at US
> 13/BUS US 13.
At the north interchange, yes. It was designed so that the bypass could
be extended west to US-50 west of town.
> I wouldn't be surprised if they complete the circle after this
> project, since at that point it'll be 3/4 done. A full beltway for a
> 20,000 city. The US 13/BUS US 13 interchange is going to need some
> work done hough - any idea how that interchange is going to be redone?
That southwest quadrant was discussed 20 to 25 years ago, but I'm not
sure if any detailed plans were ever devised. It would be expensive,
since a high-level bridge over the Wicomico River would be needed with
at least 65 feet of vertical navigational clearance (commercial and
private marine traffic).
I recall lots of wetlands near the river there too, so long bridges over
the wetlands would be necessary. IOW, there would be high construction
costs as well as considerable environmental impacts. I doubt that the
benefits of building a southwest quadrant would warrant the high costs
and impacts.
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Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
Philadelphia and Delaware Valley
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html
C. P. Zilliacus
built
> to
> > full 4-lane freeway standards. It will include several interchanges
> > including an upgrade to the existing US-13/Bypass US-13 interchange
> > north of town. The total cost for the new highway, including
> > engineering, right-of-way, and construction, is $87 million.
> >
> > The transition from existing US-50 west of town to the new bypass
will
> > form a continuous highway from existing to new, with the existing
> > highway being tied to the new via an interchange.
>
> like expressway. I wonder if this is the smallest city to have such a
> thing?
I don't know how Salisbury compares to Leesburg, Virginia, another place
with a 3/4 "beltway" (although the Leesburg Bypass has several at-grade
intersections).
Chris Lawrence
Oxford, Mississippi has a 3/4 beltway that's all freeway (though the
MS 6/7 interchange is substandard); 1990 census population was just
over 10,000.
Martin, Tennessee also has a 3/4 beltway that's all freeway, though I
can't say what the population is (but it's definitely pretty small).
Chris
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