Little Gunpowder Falls Bridge Construction

Car transport drivers planning on using the Little Gunpowder Falls Bridge as part of the route they travel from point to point may want to see if they can think of a different route to take. The Maryland State Highway Administration currently has bridge construction crews working on improving the bridge and getting over the bridge will be slower due to the decrease in traffic capacity created by the construction work.

US 1 (Belair Road) travels over Little Gunpowder Falls Bridge at the Baltimore/Harford County line. At present the Maryland State Highway Administration says four lanes of traffic will be open to traffic on the bridge throughout the current construction work being done on the bridge. Construction began in the summer of 2009 and will continue until sometime in the spring of 2010, unless there are delays, in which case they’ll provide updates on the date of completion.

The project includes the removal and replacement of the bridge, along with a realignment of the roadways leading up to the bridge. The road engineers want to shift the road about twenty feet west to decrease the sharpness of the curve and improve the safety of the approach to the bridge.

At the same time they’re replacing the bridge three buildings are being removed and a new drainage system is being added, along with a gravel parking lot. Paths leading to the trail that goes to Gunpowder State Park are being put in, pedestrian access to the trail underneath the bridge is being added and road crews are putting in new road and trail signs.