The clash with Maryland officials highlights the limits of federal power on transportation infrastructure.
In 2019, the agency responsible for Maryland’s toll roads and bridges decided not to include a proposed bike and pedestrian path as part of a $463 million replacement of the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas “Mac” Middleton Bridge, about 37 miles south of Washington. Maryland officials said it was that decision that appeared to bring additional federal scrutiny.
The infrastructure package handed the Department of Transportation new discretionary grant programs and increased the size of other programs, which the administration has tied to goals like combating climate change and promoting racial justice. But the bulk of federal highway money is passed to states with few conditions on how it is spent.
The Maryland Transportation Authority, which operates toll roads and bridges, had already been working with federal authorities for more than a year when the state formally applied for the loan last summer to help replace the 80-year-old bridge. Officials expected a quick approval to lock in a favorable interest rate.
connecting Charles County, Md., and King George County, Va. It supports about 6.5 million vehicles annually. With the aging, narrow bridge seen as a traffic bottleneck, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced a plan The new bridge will include signage alerting drivers to cyclists and special joints between sections to accommodate bikes, but Niedringhaus said even die-hard cyclists have told him “they’d rather ride on the Beltway.”
With the loan stalled, Slater wrote to Ports in October while Slater was in California attending a convention of“Based on some conversations here in California, I think we might need [to] get a ‘put our foot down’ letter drafted,” Slater wrote in an email.
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