Since 2013, Broening Highway’s Colgate Creek Bridge has had a sufficiency rating below 50, making it vulnerable to collapse. (Mark Reutter)
Project TR 16301, replacing the Broening Highway bridge over Colgate Creek, is special even by Baltimore contracting standards: it hasn’t yet started, but it’s already 26.1% over budget.
A $4,641,050.84 EWO (extra work order) was approved by the Board of Estimates – unanimously and without discussion – last month, even though construction won’t get underway until spring or early summer.
That’s spring or early summer 2021, despite the “Progress Ahead” signs the city Department of Transportation has erected along Broening Highway announcing the replacement bridge was completed last December.
