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Dan, that highway "bypass" (U.S. 29 relocated) was envisioned in the (otherwise badly-flawed) 1981 Eastern Montgomery County Master Plan and the 1997 Fairland Master Plan. It was finally built after the 1997 plan document was approved by the Montgomery County Council and the full M-NCP&PC, and removed traffic from Burtonsville that had no desire to be there, and greatly reduced the number and severity of crashes at the signalized intersection of Old Columbia Pike and Sandy Spring Road.

Those of us that worked on the 1997 Fairland Master Plan were aware that traffic would be removed when U.S. 29 was relocated, but we worked to reduce the impact of the new interchange at U.S. 29 and Md. 198 on the Shemin's wholesale landscape operation and to make it relatively easy for traffic to exit U.S. 29 and pass through Burtonsville on old U.S. 29 and return to U.S. 29 (originally, there was no ramp envisioned from Dustin Road to northbound U.S. 29), which would have made it very inconvenient for northbound motorists to visit businesses in Burtonsville.

by C P Zilliacus on Jun 7, 2012 7:36 am • link • report

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