Eight Planned State Road Closures Affect Lanes in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, MDOT Listings Show
Maryland's official road-closure listings showed 17 planned state road closures across the two capital-region counties as of Friday noon - eight of them taking a driving lane or a turn lane, and nine more closing shoulders only.
Drivers in the Maryland suburbs start the week with a map of planned work to check before they go. As of about noon Friday, the Maryland Department of Transportation's road closure listings showed 17 planned state road closures in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Eight affect a driving lane or a turn lane; the other nine are shoulder closures only. The listings come from the department's Coordinated Highways Action Response Team, known as CHART. Statewide, CHART listed 128 planned closures, including 12 in Montgomery County and five in Prince George's County.
Five of the lane closures are in Montgomery County. MD 191 eastbound from Howell Road to Bradmoor Drive has one traffic lane and the shoulder closed. MD 410 appears three times: eastbound from Brookville Road to Jones Mill Road with one of two right traffic lanes and the shoulder closed, northbound from Sycamore Avenue to S Manor Circle with one lane and the shoulder closed, and westbound from Fenton Street to Georgia Avenue with one lane and the shoulder closed. US 29 northbound from Lockwood Drive to Burnt Mills Avenue has one of three right traffic lanes and the right shoulder closed. In Prince George's County, MD 450 westbound from Laurel Bowie Road to Annapolis Road has one lane and the shoulder closed, while MD 4 eastbound from Pennsylvania Avenue to Donnell Drive and MD 500 westbound past Hamilton Street each have the right turn lane and the right shoulder closed.
The nine shoulder-only closures include I-270 northbound and southbound near miles 9 to 11, the I-495 Outer Loop near mile 10, MD 190 eastbound at Brookside Drive, MD 198 westbound from Oak Hill Road to Veitch Lane, MD 650 in both directions from Oakview Drive to Elton Road, and US 50 eastbound at Kenilworth Avenue and near county mile 6 in Prince George's County. The listings do not include closures created by local jurisdictions, and they do not give start or end times or reasons - and they refresh through the day, so conditions can change. Drivers who want current conditions can check Maryland 511, the state's official traveler information service run through CHART, or call 5-1-1.
