Why was Lombard Street in Baltimore closed?”
The expected traffic disruptions from city plans to resurface Lombard Street might not be so bad after all. As the city reopened the main westbound artery through downtown Baltimore early Thursday after last week’s water main break, officials announced revised plans for the coming work on Lombard changes that are expected to reduce the duration and severity of the lane closings that will be necessary. In March, city transporation officials announced a resurfacing program that would have involved closing half the capacity of Lombard Street for about a year. But on Thursday Frank J. Murphy, the Baltimore Transportation Department’s acting deputy director for operations, said that instead of pouring concrete at seven intersections along Lombard, the city will lay blacktop on the entire 15-block stretch from President Street to Martin Luther King Boulevard. Murphy said the blacktopping project will take fewer months and cause less disruption than the more ambitious previous plan. He said t
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