2010 Annual Report - Maryland State Highway Administration

Percent of SHA Roads That Have an
Acceptable Ride Quality Rating
V
System Preservation and Maintenance
Preserving Pavement Condition
SHA’s pavement assessment indicates that 87 percent of the pavements were in
acceptable ride condition in CY 2009, up less than a percentage point from CY
2008. In addition, 94 percent of the roads on Maryland’s National Highway
System are in acceptable condition, the majority of which (88 percent) are SHAowned.
100%
Ride Quality on SHA Roads
This result is the cumulative effect of increased investment in pavement
preservation, implementation of enhanced project selection tools and
strategies, improved engineering and improved materials over the past several
years. SHA resurfaced 887 lanes miles in FY 2010. This was 10 percent more
than the previous year, in large part due to the influx of stimulus funding.
A significant accomplishment is the increase in pavement conditions in nearly all
of the districts, meaning allocations were well distributed. SHA engineers
continue to improve processes for the selection of projects and roadway
treatments to facilitate the most cost-effective treatments available. SHA
recently developed a pavement preservation decision tree to greatly expand the
number of paving options that can be used, and to identify the appropriate
circumstances under which they should be placed.
Nearly all of Maryland’s counties had one or more resurfacing projects
completed in FY 2010. Of the 887 miles, 640 were resurfaced using ARRA funds.
Montgomery and Prince George’s counties had the largest number of lane-miles
resurfaced. All projects below, except I-270, were ARRA funded:
Northbound US 13 (Salisbury Bypass) and MD 12 to Mt. Hermon Road, for
$1.3 million in Wicomico County;
MD 213 (Augustine Herman Highway) between the Chesapeake City Bridge
and US 40 (Pulaski Highway) in Cecil County; approximately five miles along
MD 213 were resurfaced, part of a $2.3 million area-wide contract. In order
to minimize traffic interruptions to the 14,000 vehicles that usually travel
along MD 213 near the Chesapeake City Bridge, construction took place at
night from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.;
I-270 (Eisenhower Memorial Highway) between Middlebrook Road and
Muddy Branch Road in Montgomery County; a nearly four-mile section of
I-270 was resurfaced; other work included resurfacing the ramps at the
MD 117 (West Diamond Avenue), MD 124 (Montgomery Village Avenue/
Quince Orchard Road) and Middlebrook Road interchanges; drainage
improvements; upgraded existing sidewalks to ADA standards, pavement
markings, curb and gutter replacement, replacement of guardrail and
replacement of the concrete median barrier along I-270. This $6.7 million
project began in May 2009; SHA expedited the project to two weekends of
milling and paving in September 2009, which reduced long delays to
motorists;
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Calendar Year
40
STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION | FY 2010 Annual Report