Bridge Road

Mountain Road residents say they have come up with a half-dozen ways to alleviate traffic problems on nearby Woods Road without closing down the popular local shortcut.The residents, upset at a proposal to erect a barrier on Woods Road at 11th Street, called a meeting Wednesday night at the Lake Shore Firehouse to get answers from 3rd District County Councilman Carl G. "Dutch" Holland and the county's chief traffic engineer, Jim Schroll.Woods Road, which cuts through the Chelsea Beach and Pine Crest communities, has become a bypass for motorists who want to get from Magothy Beach Road to the Pasadena peninsula without getting mired in the heavy traffic at several Mountain Road intersections.

Saint Clair Bridge Road in northern Harford County has been re-opened to traffic, the Harford County Department of Public Works announced Friday. The road had been closed since mid-June 2011 to allow for repairs to the bridge. For further information regarding this highway project, contact the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Construction Inspection, Monday through Friday during normal business hours, 410-638-3217, Ext. 2442.

Saint Clair Bridge Road in northern Harford County has been re-opened to traffic, the Harford County Department of Public Works announced Friday. The road had been closed since mid-June 2011 to allow for repairs to the bridge. For further information regarding this highway project, contact the Department of Public Works, Bureau of Construction Inspection, Monday through Friday during normal business hours, 410-638-3217, Ext. 2442.

Charles Warren West, a retired surveyor and bridge and road inspector for the Baltimore County Bureau of Highways who was also a tax preparer, died Wednesday of a heart attack at University of Maryland Medical Center. The Woodstock resident was 80. Mr. West was stricken while attending prayers at the St. Jude Shrine on North Paca Street and was taken to the nearby medical center, where he died. "He was devoted to the Wednesday novena at St. Jude," said a daughter, Patricia A. Smith of Ellicott City.

How much longer is Brock Bridge Road expected to be closed between Whiskey Bottom Road and Dorsey Run Road? For about three more weeks, according to representatives with the county and the construction project. Nearby residents and businesses are getting a bit antsy because the road was supposed to be reopened by January. This section of Brock Bridge links Annapolis Junction with Laurel-Maryland City-Russett and is a popular shortcut to bypass Route 198 and get to points north on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32. But unless you live on the road, ride on a school bus or drive a garbage truck, you are still blocked from using this portion of Brock Bridge.

Two Laurel men were killed late Tuesday when the car in which they were passengers veered off Brock Bridge Road and slammed into a tree, Anne Arundel County police said. The victims were identified as Corey Eugene Gibson, 23, and Michael Joseph Stansbury Jr., 17. The driver, Vincent Merrill Dilworth Jr., 18, was in critical condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was being treated for internal injuries. The men were friends who lived in Laurel, said police and family members.

FireUnion Bridge: Firefighters responded to a fire alarm on Union Bridge Road at 4: 31 p.m. Friday. Units were out one hour.Pub Date: 6/30/98

Section of Route 194 to close for repairsRoute 194 (Woodsboro Pike) in Frederick County will be closed between LeGore Bridge Road and LeGore Road from 7 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday for safety improvements at the Maryland Midland Railway crossing, the State Highway Administration has announced.Signs and flag posts will detour motorists to LeGore Bridge Road, Clyde Young Road and LeGore Road.Improvements include the installation of overhead railroad crossing warning lights, a prefabricated concrete road crossing surface and asphalt approaches.

Route 194 (Woodsboro Pike) will be closed to traffic again between LeGore Bridge Road and LeGore Road from 7 p.m. tomorrow to 6 a.m. Monday for safety improvements at the Maryland Midland Railway crossing.Work started last week was not completed because of the weather.Signs and flag posts will direct motorists to use LeGore Bridge Road, Clyde Young Road and LeGore Road as the detour route.Crews will install overhead railroad crossing warning lights, a prefabricated concrete road crossing surface and asphalt approaches.

FIRE* Taneytown: Taneytown and Harney responded to fire alarm on Trevanion Road at 1:45 p.m. Saturday. Units were out 30 minutes.* Union Bridge: Union Bridge and Taneytown responded to a fire alarm on Union Bridge Road at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.Units were out 20 minutes.

It seemed like a lot of fuss over five little trees, but to Andrea Soukup they meant more than words could convey. With smiles lighting up their faces, Soukup and a small group of neighbors watched yesterday as contractors for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. pulled the quintet of American holly trees from a pickup truck at their designated new home, a hillside along Cromwell Bridge Road in Towson, just southwest of the Beltway. Then Soukup was handed a shovel, as were state Sen. Katherine A. Klausmeier and several BGE officials, and asked to perform some ceremonial digging in the dirt.

Aid sought to enforce housing law A hearing on a measure to direct state resources to local code enforcement in college towns such as Towson is scheduled for Thursday. The proposal would authorize the state Department of Housing and Community Development to provide grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions to enforce housing laws in areas where there is a significant population of college students. The bill is co-sponsored by Baltimore County Republican Dels. Susan L.M. Aumann, Steven J. DeBoy Sr. and Patrick L. McDonough, and Carroll County Republican Del. Nancy R. Stocksdale.

There's always lots of activity within earshot of Maryland City Park, be it kids playing on the playground, canines chasing their friends, or, behind a thick line of trees, thousands of cars whizzing down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. But about a month ago, park-goers could hear something else on the western outskirts of Anne Arundel County: foresters chopping to the ground a stand of leafy trees that extended more than 100 yards along a walking trail, all to clear a path for airplanes.

How much longer is Brock Bridge Road expected to be closed between Whiskey Bottom Road and Dorsey Run Road? For about three more weeks, according to representatives with the county and the construction project. Nearby residents and businesses are getting a bit antsy because the road was supposed to be reopened by January. This section of Brock Bridge links Annapolis Junction with Laurel-Maryland City-Russett and is a popular shortcut to bypass Route 198 and get to points north on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32. But unless you live on the road, ride on a school bus or drive a garbage truck, you are still blocked from using this portion of Brock Bridge.

Craters and cracks mar a short stretch of the new Shepherds Mill Road near Union Bridge and the surface must be removed and replaced with new asphalt by the contractor, Carroll County officials said. The 1 1/4 -mile road opened to truck traffic in April, to the relief of Union Bridge officials. The $2.2 million stretch that connects to Route 75 was designed to draw heavy cement trucks from the Lehigh Cement Co. off the town's Main Street. "There are a few areas where the surface paving has failed," said Deborah A. Butler, acting chief of the bureau of engineering for the county Department of Public Works.

The tanker truck explosion that closed Interstate 95 yesterday afternoon forced thousands of commuters and long-distance travelers onto clogged alternate routes, where they crept through hourlong backups, missed afternoon flights and got lost on unfamiliar roads. Two southbound lanes of I-95 reopened at 7 p.m., and state highway workers were laboring through the night in a "marathon effort" to open the northbound side by this morning, officials said. After waiting for emergency workers and police investigators to finish their jobs, road crews had to clear fire-retardant foam before they could survey the damage to the highway.

An 82-year-old Annapolis man was fatally injured Tuesday when he ran a red light on Brock Bridge Road in Laurel and his car was struck by a pickup truck driven by an Odenton man, county police said yesterday.Winfred Alban Ross, of the the 900 block of Lanna Way, was pronounced dead at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday.Ferdinand Rojas Rodriguez, 55, of the 500 block of Prince Charles Ave., driver of a 1991 Dodge pickup, was treated at Shock Trauma and released yesterday morning.

A 75-year-old Laurel woman was killed yesterday morning after the car she was driving left Brock Bridge Road in Laurel and struck two trees. Anna Mary Miller was headed south on Brock Bridge Road near River Bridge Way about 10:30 a.m. when she failed to negotiate a curve in the road, crossed the northbound lane and drove off the road. Her 1982 two-door Plymouth Reliant struck the trees and overturned, Anne Arundel County police said. There was no evidence that Miller, of Federalsburg South, had tried to brake or steer to avoid the accident, police said.

Two Laurel men were killed late Tuesday when the car in which they were passengers veered off Brock Bridge Road and slammed into a tree, Anne Arundel County police said. The victims were identified as Corey Eugene Gibson, 23, and Michael Joseph Stansbury Jr., 17. The driver, Vincent Merrill Dilworth Jr., 18, was in critical condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was being treated for internal injuries. The men were friends who lived in Laurel, said police and family members.