With a section of Longwoods Road (MD Route 662) currently closed for the construction of the new regional medical center, voters who use Route 662 north to the Hiners Lane entrance to reach their polling place at the Talbot County Community Center, will need to consider an alternate route on November 5.
Talbot County and University of Maryland Shore Regional Health are jointly issuing detour directions that enable drivers coming to the Community Center from westbound U.S. Route 50 to avoid crossing U.S. Route 50 where there is no traffic light.
Drivers who prefer not to turn left across U.S. Route 50 to enter the Community Center are advised as follows:
- From U.S. Route 50 North, turn left at Airport Road and follow it to Goldsborough Neck Road; turn right.
- From Route 662 North, turn left at Airport Road and follow it to Goldsborough Neck Road; turn right.
- At the fork of Goldsborough Neck and Hailem School Road, bear right and follow Hailem School Road to its dead end at Longwoods Road; turn right.
- Drive a short distance on Longwoods Road and turn left on Hiners Lane, which leads to the rear entrance of the Talbot Community Center (on the right).
This alternative route will remain an option to access the Talbot County Community Center for the duration of the Route 662 closure. The road is scheduled to reopen in May.
About University of Maryland Shore Regional Health
A member organization of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), University of Maryland Shore Regional Health (UM SRH) is the principal provider of comprehensive health care services for more than 170,000 residents of five counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. UM SRH consists of approximately 2,000 team members, including more than 600 health care providers on the Medical Staff, who work with community partners to advance the values that are foundational to our mission: Compassion, Discovery, Excellence, Diversity and Integrity. For more information, visit https://www.umms.org/shore.
About the University of Maryland Medical System
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
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