Sauerbrey has made her support of the connector a centerpiece of her pro-highway campaign message. She said she would try some innovative construction techniques that would put the highway on piers above the environmentally sensitive part of the route. Sauerbrey concedes that she knows few details about the techniques or their costs. It's a little unfair for a candidate to have to address all these issues without a State Highway Administration behind you. State highway officials say they have no choice.
Federal law requires every alternative to be scrutinized.
Yet some residents worry that such moves are an indication that Glendening means merely to put the controversial issue off until after the election. This is a political move. He was, with his hand behind his back and his fingers crossed. Now, he's buying up land in an area where the road was never supposed to be. Glendening says such talk is nonsense.