Pothole repairs in Maryland have increased 25% since the collapse and closure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge over a year ago.
Truck drivers and trucking company owners say that the road conditions in Dundalk, Sparrows Point, and surrounding Maryland areas have deteriorated over the last year now that trucks are using alternate routes to reach their destinations. Public works officials in the area agree that the state and county cannot keep up with the road repairs, which have increased significantly since the closure.
“I haven’t seen the roads this bad in a long while,” said Christopher Miskimon, owner of CKM Transport, a trucking firm in Sparrows Point, said to States Newsroom. “The roads used to be taken care of pretty decent, redone and kept up for the most part, but now it just seems it’s just getting worse and worse.”…