Baltimore Washington Parkway

A construction mishap led Saturday to prolonged closures of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and the West Nursery Road business corridor near BWI, but state officials said the roads should reopen by rush hour Monday morning. The problem occurred as crews were carrying out a bridge replacement procedure that was being used for the first time in Maryland. To replace the two spans of the West Nursery Road overpass, they planned to wheel away the old bridges — built in 1948 — and roll new ones in. But they had to halt their work about 12:45 a.m. because the existing bridge deck shifted while they attempted to remove it, according to Valerie Burnette Edgar, spokeswoman for the State Highway Administration.

Three of four northbound lanes on I-95 will be closed between Route 216 and Route 32 overnight Saturday as crews work to repair a bridge joint, the State Highway Administration said. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday one lane will be closed; between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. two; and between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Sunday three lanes will be closed. During that time crews will be doing emergency repair work on the Middle Patuxent River Bridge, officials said. Alternative routes include US 1 (Washington Boulevard)

The Baltimore-Washington Parkway reopened to traffic early Saturday morning, after the successful removal of segment of the West Nursery Road bridge overnight. The closures of the parkway, which is a major route to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, are part of an ongoing and sometimes troubled project to replace the bridges by rolling them down the highway and slotting them into position. Hurricane Sandy and construction mishaps had delayed the project, but the bridge over the northbound side of the parkway - also called Route 295 - was replaced last weekend.

As of 8:30 a.m. Thursday, a two-vehicle accident was reported on northbound Interstate 95 before the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Baltimore, according to state highway administration officials. MTA reported no major delays to MARC service.

A moving company truck driver, who got into an altercation while on the job then fled police, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Wednesday for ramming his company truck into several cars on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, injuring the occupants, including a 10-year-old girl. Michael A. Jasper, 40, of Hanover, was on a job in New Carrollton on March 31, 2010, prosecutors said, when he was “involved in an assault.” He jumped into the moving truck and took off, with Prince George's County Police in pursuit.

After some trouble on the first attempt, the State Highway Administration removed the 300-ton West Nursery Road bridge over the northbound lanes of Baltimore-Washington Parkway overnight and reopened the road early Saturday. Crews used hydraulic equipment to lift the bridge deck out of place, after an attempt two weeks ago that failed when the load shifted and the Highway Administration had to assemble a massive crane on the parkway to lift the deck back into place. The parkway reopened at 7:30 a.m. after the bridge was carried several hundred feet north on the parkway, also called Route 295, and dropped off in the median.

A rally of motorcyclists commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks will be departing the Pentagon in Northern Virginia at about 6:45 a.m. Saturday, according to America's 911 Foundation Inc. The convoy will be taking I-395 to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. They will then be going from the parkway to I-95 for a stop at the Maryland House rest area, about 24 miles north of Baltimore City in Harford County. They plan to depart Maryland House at about 9:30 a.m. and continue north on I-95 to Delaware.

A motorist was killed last night when his car struck the side of a bridge on the northbound Baltimore-Washington Parkway at Route 32, U.S. Park Police said. Battalion Chief Matt Tobia of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department said details were not available; emergency crews were trying to remove the unidentified motorist from the vehicle after the 10 p.m. accident. The accident closed the parkway's northbound off-ramp at Route 32 East, Tobia said.

Cash reportedly flew out of the window of a car chased by police Wednesday on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, after a bank robbery in Millersville, police said. Around 10:30 a.m. a man went into the Washington Savings Bank in the 600 block of Old Mill Road, passed a robbery note, received cash and then fled onto Veterans Highway in a red Pontiac Firebird, said Justin Mulcahy, a county police spokesman. The car was spotted near I-97 and the Baltimore Beltway, Mulcahy said.

The State Highway Administration plans to resume work on its "bridge on wheels" project this weekend after construction mishaps and the former Hurricane Sandy delayed the installation of two new spans on West Nursery Road over the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The Anne Arundel County roadway is a crucial artery to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. This will be the second time workers will try to replace the aging West Nursery Road bridge over the parkway, or Route 295, by rolling in new, prefabricated bridge decks.

As of 7:40 a.m. Thursday, eastbound lanes of Maryland Route 198, just east of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Anne Arundel County, remained closed due to a two-vehicle crash, according to state highway officials. Drivers near Aisquith and Federal streets in Baltimore might see delays due to another broken water main break on Thursday morning. A city department of Public Works spokesman did not have additional details, but drivers are being told to use an alternative route. The 2300 block of E. Monument Street in Baltimore has been reopened after the section of road was closed for almost five months after the collapse of a storm drain tunnel caused a major sinkhole.

The Baltimore-Washington Parkway reopened to traffic early Saturday morning, after the successful removal of segment of the West Nursery Road bridge overnight. The closures of the parkway, which is a major route to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, are part of an ongoing and sometimes troubled project to replace the bridges by rolling them down the highway and slotting them into position. Hurricane Sandy and construction mishaps had delayed the project, but the bridge over the northbound side of the parkway - also called Route 295 - was replaced last weekend.

After some trouble on the first attempt, the State Highway Administration removed the 300-ton West Nursery Road bridge over the northbound lanes of Baltimore-Washington Parkway overnight and reopened the road early Saturday. Crews used hydraulic equipment to lift the bridge deck out of place, after an attempt two weeks ago that failed when the load shifted and the Highway Administration had to assemble a massive crane on the parkway to lift the deck back into place. The parkway reopened at 7:30 a.m. after the bridge was carried several hundred feet north on the parkway, also called Route 295, and dropped off in the median.

The State Highway Administration plans to resume work on its "bridge on wheels" project this weekend after construction mishaps and the former Hurricane Sandy delayed the installation of two new spans on West Nursery Road over the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The Anne Arundel County roadway is a crucial artery to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. This will be the second time workers will try to replace the aging West Nursery Road bridge over the parkway, or Route 295, by rolling in new, prefabricated bridge decks.

Hurricane Sandy's pending arrival forced the State Highway Administration to postpone this weekend's attempt to replace one of two spans over the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at West Nursery Road. The $6 million project calls for swapping out two 60-year-old bridges that carry traffic to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and its business district with two new spans that were built in the highway median. A massive multiwheel transporter has been assembled for the heavy lifting.

A construction mishap led Saturday to prolonged closures of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and the West Nursery Road business corridor near BWI, but state officials said the roads should reopen by rush hour Monday morning. The problem occurred as crews were carrying out a bridge replacement procedure that was being used for the first time in Maryland. To replace the two spans of the West Nursery Road overpass, they planned to wheel away the old bridges — built in 1948 — and roll new ones in. But they had to halt their work about 12:45 a.m. because the existing bridge deck shifted while they attempted to remove it, according to Valerie Burnette Edgar, spokeswoman for the State Highway Administration.

The ramp from the northbound Baltimore-Washington Parkway to southbound I-695 in Anne Arundel County will be closed for a few nights this week as crews repair a sound wall. The State Highway Administration announced that the closures probably won't last more than three nights starting on Sunday at 10 p.m. Workers on the job between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. will be repairing damaged panels on the sound wall and putting in new traffic barriers in front of the wall. Weather permitting, the job is expected to be completed by the end of the week.

I read with interest your article about the innovative method that will be employed to install the new bridge at West Nursery Road and Baltimore-Washington Parkway over the weekends of Oct. 19 and Oct. 26 ("Rolling out better access to the airport - at 4 mph," Oct. 11). I applaud the State Highway Administration for choosing such a minimally disruptive means to replace an aging bridge. These weekends were chosen because there are no Ravens game scheduled. But who would have guessed that the Orioles could be hosting a World Series game Oct. 27?