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Biggs Ford Road Crossover to Temporarily Close for Reconstruction; Motorists Should Expect Three Weeks of Nighttime Traffic Impacts
(September 22, 2016) – Next week, the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) will close the Biggs Ford Road crossing as a part of upcoming traffic pattern changes for the US 15/Monocacy Boulevard interchange project. Crews will reconstruct the deceleration and acceleration lanes at the intersection. SHA will also begin erecting structural steel on the new Monocacy Boulevard Bridge, weather permitting.
Crews will close the US 15 median crossing at Biggs Ford Road and the deceleration and acceleration lanes from US 15 northbound to US 15 southbound until late fall. During the closure motorists will follow the signed detour.
To reach Biggs Ford Road, drivers on southbound US 15 must turn left onto Devilbiss Bridge Road, and then turn right onto Dublin Road.
Northbound US 15 drivers that need to access southbound US 15 will make a U-turn at Sundays Lane and proceed southbound on US 15.
(Google map: US 15 detour during steel setting operation.)
SHA will also begin erecting steel beams for the new interchange; crews will first perform work over southbound US 15, and then northbound US 15. Crews will need to close US 15 for 15-minute increments in order to place the steel across the active travel lanes.
This work will take place overnight between the hours of 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. The steel work is expected to last 2-3 weeks, weather permitting. Portable variable message signs will be placed in advance of the work. More information about the $59 million interchange project can be
found here. Nearly 45,000 motorists access US 15 at Monocacy Boulevard each day.
While SHA and its transportation partners work hard to maintain safe traffic mobility in work zones, each driver needs to actively modify his or her driving style to help prevent crashes. Stay alert and look for reduced speed limits, narrow driving lanes and highway workers. Slow down and don’t follow too closely. Work Zone Safety is in Your Hands.
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