A western Howard County reader, who preferred to remain unidentified, had a detailed question abbout why the inttersection of Marriottsville Road and Route 99 is configured as it is. The State Highway Administration came back with an equally wonky answer.
I'll pass along both, wiith the caveat that it's probably far too much information for anyone who doesn't live out that way or travel there frequently. That is -- unless you want to get a flavor of the sheer complexity of the decision-making that goes into the design of any intersection.
As you can see, whatever action is taken at an intersection produces a rreaction that is not always predictable -- even for professional engineers. The reader wrote:
So SHA spokesman David Buck talked with the local engineers and came back with this reply:
And there you have it: Everything you could want to know about this intersection and more.