McDonogh Road

The McDonogh Road corridor is a heavily-traveled cross-county series of roads that run between the Baltimore County, Maryland towns of Randallstown and Owings Mills. The main route, McDonogh Road, is paired at many points with other major roadways. These include Painters Mill Road and Brenbrook Drive. While identified by the name McDonogh Road from Liberty Road to Reisterstown Road, the road physically continues about ¾ mile past Liberty to Old Court Road known as Greens Lane and about ½ mile past Reisterstown Road to Greenspring Valley Road known as Craddock Lane. All of these roads were at one time separate roads, but were merged together during construction that took place mostly during the 1980s.

McDonogh and Painters Mill Roads are a 4-lane road (plus turning lanes) from Reisterstown Road to Winands Road. The remainder of the route has two traffic lanes, plus turning and parking lanes in various places.

Painters Mill Road

About halfway between Liberty and Reisterstown Roads, motorists must make a turn in order to continue on McDonogh Road. Going physically straight at this point would continue the motorist on "Painters Mill Road" in Owings Mills, a 4+ lane road that continues to its end at Reisterstown Road. Most of the commercial development throughout the corridor is located on this road.

The most notable landmark on Painters Mill Road is the Owings Mills Metro Subway Station. A turn onto Red Run Boulevard would bring the motorist to the Owings Mills Town Center. Also located on Painters Mill Road are the offices of T. Rowe Price [http://www.troweprice.com/CorporateContact/0,,,00.html] .

Owings Mills Town Center:

Boscov'sJC PenneyMacy'sFood Court & other stores in the mall

Brenbrook Drive

While traveling in a southbound direction toward Randallstown, shortly after Winands Road, where McDonogh Road narrows, the road splits in a Y-split. A right turn at this Y is required in order to stay on McDonogh Road. Going what physically appears to be straight will bring the motorist onto Brenbrook Drive. Both roads will eventually reach Liberty Road after several blocks of residential development. Brenbrook Drive dead-ends shortly after Liberty Road, with "Brenbrook Plaza" on the right, a shopping center that Home Depot, and is the former location of a K-Mart.

Public transportation

Currently, the only public bus lines within the corridor of Bus routes M-9 and M-17, which both operate between Reisterstown Road and Red Run Boulevard via the Metro station. At one time, Route M-17 also went as far south as the T.Rowe Price campus at Lyons Mill Road, but this portion of the route was eliminated in 2005 as part of the Greater Baltimore Bus Initiative.

In 2005, there was also a GBBI plan to extend Bus Route M-8, the line serving the Liberty Road corridor, to Owings Mills along McDonogh and Painters Mill Roads. This plan, however, was fought by residents of the portion of McDonogh Road between Liberty and Winands, who opposed buses operated on their narrow residential street [http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=351&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1116691&om=1] .

ee also

*Owings Mills Boulevard

External links

* [http://www.mcdonogh.org/index_flash.cfm McDonogh School] , a landmark on McDonogh Road