Baltimore County: Joppa Road EASTBOUND before Harford Road – LEFT lane BLOCKED
US 1/Bel Air Bypass: SOUTHBOUND is CLOSED near the northern interchange with MD 24 (Bel Air). Traffic gets by ONE direction at a time at the discretion of the work crew
US 1/Belair Road: NORTHBOUND and SOUTHBOUND north of Joppa Rd:
NORTHBOUND - LEFT lane BLOCKED
US 1/Washington Boulevard: SOUTHBOUND after Levering Avenue - RIGHT lane BLOCKED
MD 3/Crain Highway: SOUTHBOUND after the southern intersection with MD 450 (Bel Air/Bowie/Crofton - Anne Arundel County) - RIGHT LANE BLOCKED
MD 32: EASTBOUND ramp to Dorsey Run Road is CLOSED.
US 40/Pulaski Highway: WESTBOUND between Joppa Farm & Days Cove Roads - RIGHT lane BLOCKED
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When Amazon opened its second fulfillment center in the Baltimore region, in 2018, most anyone driving to it from the city arrived via Dundalk Avenue, which took them past a yellow brick building that was constructed in 1952 to house Local 2609 and 2610 of the United Steelworkers and an adjacent building that opened after Local 2610 moved into its own space.
By then, the buildings were mostly vacant, because the steel mill whose workers the union had represented had closed, in 2012, after a long, steady decline. The Bethlehem Steel works were once the largest in the world, an industrial sprawl on the Sparrows Point peninsula that employed some 30,000 people, several thousand of whom lived in an adjoining company town. The work had been grueling and frequently treacherous since the mill’s founding, in the 1890s: “Always More Production” was the slogan of Eugene Grace, Bethlehem