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U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

September 2007
See FLH website for sources

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Fact Sheet

 

Maryland FLHP

MD FLHP road miles: 196
Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $28,200,000
Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 1.9%*
MD population: 5,615,727

Maryland State

  • National Park Service (23 units)

  • Fish and Wildlife Service (5)

  • This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map.

Photo of the Baltimore-Washington (BW) ParkwayThe Federal Lands Highway Program in Maryland. The Baltimore-Washington (BW) Parkway is a multi-lane divided urban parkway providing a direct link between Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland.The BW Parkway was envisioned in Pierre L’Enfant’s 1791 plan for Washington, planned as a scenic entrance into the nation’s capital as early as 1925, and built within a number of construction phases between 1942 and 1954.

In the last 20 years, Eastern Federal Lands reconstructed the parkway in partnership with the National Park Service and the Maryland State Highway Administration. The $170 million improvement program included the rehabilitation of pavement and shoulders, modifications and/or reconstruction of certain bridges and interchanges, and safety improvements such as lengthening ramp acceleration and deceleration lanes.The program was designed to enhance motorist safety and to improve aesthetics. One aesthetic treatment was the construction of a crash-tested, simulated-stone, precast-concrete guardwall safety barrier that matches the look and character of the existing historic bridges and walls on the parkway. Through use of context-sensitive solutions, this project has become the standard for American urban parkway design, has received numerous design and safety awards, and has been designated as a Maryland State Scenic Byway.

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