Montrose Parkway West

Montrose Parkway is the largest highway capital improvement project to date for the Montgomery County Department of Public Works and Transportation (DPWT) and is an example of context sensitive design. JMT fit the project into the context of the communities it traversed in an environmentally sensitive fashion while meeting all design requirements.

The Montrose Parkway project will reduce the traffic volume on Montrose Road by 47%, east of the proposed intersection of Montrose Parkway and Montrose Road. The project provides congestion relief, increases capacity, improves safety, reduces neighborhood cut-through traffic, and provides an aesthetically pleasing roadway.

The construction costs and project budget, including engineering, construction, utility relocation and land acquisition costs, were approximately $30 million and $70 million respectively, making this the most expensive project undertaken by the DPWT to date.

Using DPWT's facility planning documents completed in May 2000, JMT began preliminary design and held various community meetings with the public, various agencies and other stakeholders.  JMT completed the preliminary plans in 2001 and prepared the final design between 2002 and 2004. Construction began in September 2005 and the project is substantially complete and is scheduled to be finished in September 2008.

JMT was integral in every part of the planning, design, and construction phases of this project. The scope of work included widening a 3,900 foot segment of Montrose Road east of the I-270 interchange from a 5-lane undivided road to a 6-lane divided arterial, and construction of a 5,300 foot segment of the 4-lane divided Montrose Parkway.

Other elements include:

  • Reconstruction of a 935 foot segment of Montrose Road to the east of the Parkway
  • Widening a 950 foot segment of East Jefferson Street
  • 2 roadway bridges
  • 1,300 foot extension of Hitching Post Lane to provide improved access to adjacent communities
  • Shared-use trail including a bridge over Old Farm Creek
  • 3,000 linear feet of noise walls
  • 7 traffic signals