Reisterstown Road Needs Work Near Solo Cup Property, County Says

Reisterstown Road and Painters Mill Road must be improved to accomodate traffic that will be generated by development in Owings Mills, The Baltimore Sun reported Friday.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, County Council members and others met with Transportation Secretary Beverley K. Swaim-Staley in Towson Thursday to ask for state assistance on the project, The Sun reported.

But the county does not want to widen Reisterstown Road -- instead, it wants to build parallel access roads on either side of the northwest corridor's main artery near Painters Mill Road. The county is not sure what that would cost.

If the roads were to be widened instead, the cost would be between $45 million and $50 million, according to The Sun.

Locals in the area since it was announced the in September.

Construction at the -- which will host the county's largest public library and a community college extension -- . Reisterstown Road would be a main access point for both developments.