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You are here: Home / Local / Overnight Road Closures Planned in Northern Harford County for Transportation of Electrical Generation Equipment

Overnight Road Closures Planned in Northern Harford County for Transportation of Electrical Generation Equipment

October 24, 2015 By Dagger News Service 14 Comments

From the Maryland State Highway Administration:

The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) will assist Barnhart Crane and Rigging Company during the overnight transport of significantly heavy electrical generation equipment through North Harford County beginning Monday night, weather permitting. The move will take two nights through Maryland into Pennsylvania.

During the massive transport, several roads will be closed, and commuters will be detoured until the convoy, which includes cranes for heavy lifting, passes. These cranes are essential for safely moving large equipment. After the trucks and cranes pass, the roads will open accordingly. A Thrust Bearing is designed to accommodate axial loads in a singular direction, however they must not be subjected to any radial load.

The carefully planned move involves extremely large vehicles that move at speeds of only 5 MPH and require “jump bridges” to be deployed on MD 161 (Darlington Road) over Deer Creek. A jump bridge is engineered to protect SHA’s bridges from the massive weight loads associated with the transport.

The following is an approximate schedule approved by SHA:

Monday, October 26

9:00 .p.m. – Convoy leaving from the Vulcan Quarry on westbound MD 155 (Level Road) to the northbound I-95 Ramp. The convoy will stage at this location while the Maryland State Police and Maryland Transportation Authority Police to drag traffic that will enable the convoy to cross I-95;

11:00 p.m. – Convoy crosses I-95 and continues on MD 155 west of I-95;

12:30 a.m. – Vehicles to exit MD 155 and travel north on MD 161 to the Deer Creek Bridge;

1:15 a.m. – Cross the Deer Creek Bridge and continue north on MD 161;

3:15 a.m. – Turn onto southbound US 1 (Conowingo Road) and travel to predetermined staging area near the US 1/MD 136 (Whiteford Road) intersection;

4:15 a.m. – Arrive at staging area.

Tuesday, October 27

9:00 .p.m. – Depart staging area and turn onto westbound MD 136;

10:00 p.m. – From MD 136, the convoy will turn onto northbound MD 440 (Glen Cove Road.);

12 midnight – Turn onto westbound MD 543 (Ady Road) to northbound MD 165 (Pylesville Road);

2:00 a.m. – Turn onto northbound MD 165 toward the Maryland/Pennsylvania line;

4:30 a.m. – Arrive at staging area at the MD / PA line.

Motorists should plane extra commuting times during the large transports. For the latest real-time travel information, log onto www.md511.org.

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  1. Pavel314 says

    October 24, 2015 at 10:21 pm

    This is the internet; it would be nice to have a link to a map showing the route to be taken in this process.

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  2. Galyn says

    October 25, 2015 at 10:11 am

    Very large and heavy equipment. Why over side roads 161, 440 and 543. Why not 136 all the way.

    These back roads were not made to carry extremely large nor heavy loads. Yet we are deviating from a nice roadway, 136, that is wide, fairly straight from Route 1 to 165 and placing these heavy equipment items on roads not designed nor maintained for heavy leads. These three roadways are narrow and will require some narrow turns along the roadways and onto connecting turns. They may destroy the actual foundation of the roadways.

    Who made the decision to use this crazy course though the upper county in the first place. Were they sane at the time. Or is their another hidden political reason for this chosen route.

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    • Jack says

      October 25, 2015 at 1:00 pm

      543 is no more of a backroad than 136. Political? Gimme a break…you must be an engineer.

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    • A Real Engineer says

      October 25, 2015 at 9:05 pm

      My guess would be they don’t want to come down that hill on 136 approaching 165.

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      • A Real Idiot says

        October 25, 2015 at 10:52 pm

        Wow. Even a big progressive democrat like me could have guessed that one.

        Why add the politics? Isn’t that what you, cheese steak consuming, bible reading, redneck conservative’s like to do while adjusting your tin foil?

        Gerrymandering could very well be out, but democrats are rushing into N.Harford like the plague.

        The sea won’t be red, it will be blue with coexist, rainbow and anti gun stickers a’bout.

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        • Original Observer says

          October 26, 2015 at 8:10 pm

          Based on your political rant in this comment, I’d say you chose your screen name well. Too bad I can’t say the same about your politics.

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          • A Real Idiot says

            October 27, 2015 at 3:41 pm

            Yes I did.

            Don’t worry, sooner or later Democratic candidates will be majority elected.

            You dumb ol’Publicans keep electing the good ol’boy network for same ol’ same ol’

            Just like Second Amendment supporters, sooner or later there won’t be any of them left (old age) so we can finally add another amendment to abolish the second one.

      • Original Observer says

        October 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm

        Probably also that they don’t want to try to go up those hills approaching said downgrade on 136. I would guess — and in the absence of any evidence, a guess is all it is — is that lessons were learned from the other massive equipment moves that did take 155 to 22 to 136, lessons that resulted in the change of route.

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  3. rjbaskins says

    October 26, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    I guess the Dagger is a site for breaking news. Per The Sun paper yesterday

    “This week’s planned move of massive power plant equipment through northern Harford County has been postponed until further notice, the State Highway Administration announced Monday morning.

    SHA announced via email that the mega move has been called off.”

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    • A Real Idiot says

      October 26, 2015 at 9:59 pm

      Probably pretty obvious the rain headed our way stopped the move this week.

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      • A Real Idiot says

        October 26, 2015 at 10:41 pm

        Hands up, don’t shoot. Black lives matter.

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        • A Real Idiot (the real one) says

          October 27, 2015 at 9:48 am

          Typical white male living in Harford County, subterfuge racism, and tin foil conspiracies.

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          • A Real Idiot (the real one says

            October 27, 2015 at 7:06 pm

            Disregard that, I am incompetent.

          • A Real Idiot (the real one) says

            October 28, 2015 at 10:18 am

            Poetic irony. Who’s incompetent you mucking foron? You couldn’t even replicate (see; copy and paste) my user name on here without screwing it up.

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