70 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 27

controlled right or easement of access, light, air, or view by
reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such con-
trolled-access facility or for any other reason. Such high-
ways or streets may be freeways open to use by all customary
forms of street and highway traffic; or they may be parkways
from which trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles shall
be excluded.

3. (Authority to Establish Controlled-Access Facilities.)
The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, acting alone or in
cooperation with any Federal, State, or local agency having
authority to participate in the construction and mainte-
nance of highways, is hereby authorized to plan, designate,
establish, regulate, vacate, alter, improve, maintain and pro-
vide controlled-aecess facilities for public use wherever the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is of the opinion that
traffic conditions, present or future, will justify such special
facilities. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in
addition to the specific powers granted in this Act, shall
also have and may exercise, relative to controlled-access
facilities, any and all additional authority now or here-
after vested in it relative to highways or streets within
its jurisdiction. Said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such controlled-
access facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in
a manner consistent with Section 2 of this Act.

4. (Design of Controlled-Access Facility.) The Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore is authorized to so design any
controlled-access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or pro-
hibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility
is intended. In this connection the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore is authorized to divide and separate any con-
trolled-access facility into separate roadways by the construc-
tion of raised curbings, central dividing sections or other
physical separations, or by designating such separate road-
ways by signs, markers, stripes, and the proper lane for such
traffic by appropriate signs, markers, stripes, and other de-
vices. No person shall have any right of ingress or egress to,
from, or across controlled-access facilities to or from abutting
lands, except at such designated points at which access may
be permitted, upon such terms and conditions as may be
specified from time to time.

5. (Acquisition of Property and Property Rights.) For the
purposes of this Act, the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more may acquire private or public property and property
rights for controlled-access facilities and service roads, in-
cluding rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise,
purchase, or condemnation in the same manner as the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore is now or hereafter may be