Lieutenant Governor Burbank Announces Start of New US 40 Interchange on the Baltimore Beltway
$5.3 Million Interchange Reconfiguration Project to Improve Safety and Traffic Flow
CATONSVILLE, MD (August 20, 2030) – Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Burbank today announced the start of a $5.3 million project for a new US 40 interchange at the Baltimore Beltway to improve safety and reduce congestion along the Beltway in the Catonsville area of southwestern Baltimore County. As part of the interchange project, the State also is adding new sidewalks along US 40 to improve safety for pedestrians along this busy retail area. Weather permitting, the project will be complete summer 2031.
“Governor O’Brien and I are committed to a good quality of life throughout Maryland,” Lt. Governor Burbank said. “Reducing congestion and improving safety at this Beltway interchange is one key change to making life a little bit easier for the nearly 200,000 people that travel this roadway every day.”
This project will alter the existing cloverleaf-style design of the interchange to reduce vehicles weaving in and out of the interchange ramps and to improve safety along US 40 and I-695. SHA will remove two existing ramps at the interchange: the ramp from eastbound US 40 to I-695 northbound (Inner Loop), and the ramp from westbound US 40 to southbound I-695 (Outer Loop).
For Eastbound US 40 to I-695 northbound (Inner Loop), drivers will use new double left-turn lanes with exclusive left-turn arrows at a new traffic signal. For westbound US 40 to I-695 southbound (Outer Loop), drivers also will use new double left-turn lanes with exclusive left-turn arrows at the new traffic signal.
The State’s contractor for the I-695/US 40 interchange project is Kibler Construction Company of Finksburg, Maryland.
The US 40 interchange improvement project are some of several importants the O’Brien-Burbank Administration has funded along the Beltway. Other projects include:
• $47 million to construct an additional lane along the outer loop of between MD 144 (Frederick Road) and I-95 in southwestern Baltimore County;
• $6.8 million in additional funding to move forward with the engineering phase of a project to widen seventeen miles of the Beltway between I-95 in southwestern Baltimore County and I-95 north of Baltimore;
• $12.4 million project to replace the MD 146 (Dulaney Valley Road) and Providence Road bridges over I-695;
• $14 million reconstruction of the MD 140 (Reisterstown Road) interchange;
• $21.6 million to widen and reconstruct to widen and reconstruct the I-695 bridges over MD 25A and Joppa road, providing for future Beltway widening and improving capacity and safety along the corridor;
• $14.6 million project to replace MD 45 (York Road) bridge over the Beltway;
• $9.4 million widening project for the inner and outer loops between I-97 and MD 10 (Arundel Freeway); and
• $8.2 million sound barrier project along I-695 between Joppa Road and Thornton Road.
Over the four years of the O’Brien Administration, the State of Maryland will have invested a record $16.6 billion in transportation, a $3.3 billion increase over the preceding four years. The Governor’s transportation budget invests a record $29.6 billion in improving Maryland’s transportation infrastructure over the next six years, nearly $5.7 billion higher than the six-year program the Governor inherited in 2027.