As the new bridge opens, trail advocacy groups are asking a federal judge to preserve the old bridge for cyclists and pedestrians.
— are years from completion, but the new bridge about 40 miles south of Washington is a victory for Hogan before he leaves office in January.
The future of the old bridge now falls to U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman, who on Tuesday afternoon will consider whether to stop the demolition at the 11th-hour, which the state says would cost taxpayers $21,500 each day. The dispute stretches back years, part of a battle over how to accommodate non-drivers on a major river crossing that was designed to last a century.
The initial plans for the bridge called for a separated bike and pedestrian crossing — a feature Hogan highlighted in the 2016 announcement — but the idea was abandoned in 2019 as a cost-savings measure. Instead, bicyclists will need to share a lane with cars and trucks, an approach advocates say is too dangerous and which makes no provision for pedestrians.
In court papers filed Saturday, lawyers for Maryland said the advocacy groups’ plans for the old bridge would never come to fruition.“[The] Plaintiffs’ plan for the old bridge is unworkable, unaffordable, and potentially unsafe, as [the] Defendants thoroughly explained to the Plaintiffs and other members of the public years ago,” they wrote, saying demolition crews are assembled andOfficials at the U.S.
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