Baltimore Stadium Access Study
Russell Street Improvements: Ostend Street to Pratt Street

Location:	Baltimore, Maryland
Clients:	Maryland Department of Transportation
	Baltimore City Department of Public Works

In the mid 1980s, the State of Maryland and Baltimore City were investigating the feasibility of constructing a new stadium for the Baltimore Orioles, to replace the 30+ year old Memorial Stadium. Three new sites, as well as the existing Memorial Stadium site, were under consideration. Two reports, published in late 1985/early 1986, had reached different conclusions as to the best site for a new stadium.

We and two other consultants were requested by the Maryland Department of Transportation to determine the best feasible and prudent access at each of the four sites. Items addressed included travel demand forecasts, traffic operations and impacts, and costs. The resulting report was a tool used by decision-makers in selecting a site considering a wide range of factors, of which transportation was one.

When the Camden Yards site was selected, we worked, as a subconsultant, for the Baltimore City Department of Public Works in designing some of the access improvements recommended in our report, including the reconstruction of Russell Street from Ostend Street to Pratt Street and I-95 from Caton Avenue to Russell Street. The Russell Street project and its Babe Ruth Plaza on the north side of Oriole Park at Camden Yards won an Honor Award from the Maryland and Potomac Chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects.