Project Complete: Honeygo Boulevard Extends to Belair Road

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Honeygo Boulevard is finally complete. On Thursday, Feb. 25, the final extension between Forge Road and Belair Road opened for traffic. Honeygo Boulevard connects Belair Road all the way to White Marsh and Perry Hall boulevards. We wanted to provide access for the people of western Perry Hall to White Marsh Mall, said Perry Hall Improvement Association President David Marks. Baltimore County hopes trucks use the extension instead of continuous usage of Ebenezer and Chapel roads. The construction of the road has helped the Perry Hall community with more than just an access road. The expansion of Honeygo led to an area where the new Perry Hall library was built, Marks added. The addition created two new parks (Honeygo Run Regional Park, and Perry Hall Park) in Perry Hall. A ribbon cutting ceremony was scheduled to take place on Feb. 8, but was canceled due to the double blizzard. The event wasnt rescheduled and the county decided to open the road with little fanfare last Thursday. In 1999, shortly after I became President of the Perry Hall Improvement Association, our organization worked to break a bureaucratic logjam that had delayed the completion of Honeygo Boulevard, Marks said. We knew that Honeygo Boulevard was not just an important connection between western Perry Hall and White Marsh, but that it could hopefully take truck traffic off local routes like Ebenezer and Chapel roads. Within two years, the project had been approved by state environmental officials. Before 2001, Honeygo Boulevard took motorists on an awkward left turn as it ended at Ebenezer Road. The Joppa Road-Honeygo Boulevard intersection opened in 2001 and Honeygo Boulevard was extended to Forge Road in 2006. Mark said the project is completed as plans to further extend Honeygo Boulevard to Gunview Road were scrapped. This is likely the last highway project to be built in Perry Hall, Marks concluded. We thank the county and the state for their support of a road that will not only improve mobility in Perry Hall, but hopefully lighten truck traffic on our neighborhood streets.