Alternatives
Bypass Corridors
The alternatives within the bypass corridors were developed with the intention of avoiding or minimizing impacts to existing and planned development and to environmentally sensitive areas, while still conforming to Federal and State design guidelines. At this stage of the project, corridors are quite wide in order to provide as much flexibility as possible when specific locations of the much narrower roadway footprint are determined in the future. Several alternatives have been developed within the western and eastern corridor boundaries. Each of the corridors begins near the MD 5/US 301 interchange at T.B. in Prince George’s County, extends southward through Charles County, and ties back in to existing US 301 near Turkey Hill Road. For the purpose of this first stage of planning, a consistent roadway section width of 300 feet (including medians, shoulders, and side slopes and drainage) was used to assess each alternative within each corridor equally.
