Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you. It is expected to be in place for 100 years.The existing Nice-Middleton bridge will be demolished after construction is complete.
Free Maryland tolls, plus travel and tourist information. website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area. US 301 near the top of the Harry Nice Bridge . WTOP.com | Alexa | Google Home | WTOP App | 103.5 FM WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. … 24.© 2020 WTOP. Larry Hogan’s office announced that the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge has been renamed.
Sally Jameson, who represents Charles County, sponsored the law to rename the bridge during the 2018 legislative season.Hogan, along with Jameson, Middleton and Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn, had a ceremony to unveil the bridge’s new signage on Saturday.During the event, Hogan said that he has issued a request for qualification — officially starting the contractor procurement process — for a new bridge that will be located north of and parallel to the existing bridge.Building a new bridge will mean that the existing bridge no longer needs a major rehabilitation project in the next five years, as previously estimated, according to the news release.© 2018 WTOP. US 301 on the roof of the Plaza at the Harry Nice Bridge looking South to Virginia . WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. Del. Image by Dmclane101 licensed under Creative Commons.. Maryland is working on a new bridge across the Potomac. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.Copyright © 2020 by WTOP. Log in to your WTOP account for notifications and alerts customized for you. The 1.7-mile-long, 77-year-old Harry Nice bridge will now also bear the name of Charles County Senator Thomas "Mac" Middleton. This Harry W Nice Bridge toll calculator for cars, trucks, SUVs, RVs, busses and all vehicle classes. Get toll … It cost $5 million to build over nearly three years.More than 18,000 vehicles use it each day between Charles County and King George County near Naval Support Facility Dahlgren.Local and regional leaders had pushed Maryland to include an originally promised bike and pedestrian path as part of the bridge, but the MDTA board led by Transportation Secretary Pete Rahn voted against that proposal Thursday at a meeting in Baltimore.Under the selected bid, the path would have added $64 million to the cost.The Hogan administration said that was too expensive after the administration cut toll rates on the bridge in 2015.After Thursday’s vote, a number of Maryland officials expressed concerns that the state could end up doing the same backtracking on a bike and pedestrian path recently Maryland and Virginia leaders say there will be a bike and pedestrian connection over the Potomac River on or near a rebuilt Legion Bridge.Maryland had originally announced there would be a bike path and full 10-foot shoulders on a new Nice Bridge though.The new bridge will have two-foot shoulders. Larry Hogan’s office announced that the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge has been renamed.The 1.7-mile-long, 77-year-old bridge will now also bear the name of Charles County Senator Thomas “Mac” Middleton.“I cannot think of a more fitting tribute to a gentleman and a leader who has dedicated so much of his life to this county, to our great state, and to serving others than renaming this the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas “Mac” Middleton Bridge,” Hogan said in a news release.“On behalf of all the grateful Marylanders, I want to sincerely thank Senator Middleton for his decades of dedicated service to the people of Charles County and to the State of Maryland.” The Harry W. Nice Bridge today. The new Nice-Middleton Bridge between Maryland and Virginia will be significantly slimmed down from originally promised plans. This May 2014 photo shows the Harry Nice Bridge, which carries U.S. 301 over the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland. The new Nice-Middleton Bridge between Maryland and Virginia will be significantly slimmed down from The Maryland Transportation Authority Board voted Thursday to approve a $463 million construction contract for a new U.S. 301 bridge that will have two lanes in each direction for car traffic, but little else.Virginia is contributing $13 million to the project for the pieces on the Virginia side of the river.The current 1.7-mile bridge that opened in 1940 is only one lane each way. All Rights Reserved. The state declined to keep the old span in place as a bike and pedestrian crossing, and Charles County could not afford to take ownership of the old bridge and keep it up on its own.The MDTA board separately voted Thursday to change the rules on current E-ZPass-only roads to allow certain drivers to avoid extra fees. (Courtesy Maryland Transportation Authority) US 301 in Virginia looking north toward Maryland and the Harry Nice Bridge . The Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas "Mac" Middleton Bridge, also known as the Potomac River Bridge, is a 1.7-mile (2.7 km), two-lane continuous truss bridge that spans the Potomac River between Newburg in Charles County, Maryland and Dahlgren in King George County, Virginia, United States.