STAFFORD — Orange cones continue to litter Route 610 in North Stafford.
“We’re asked all the time, ‘when will the orange cones go away,” said Stafford County Deputy Administrator Keith Dayton.
The cones are there as construction crews prepare to finish a project to widen Route 610 (Garrisonville Road) from four to six lanes between Orville and Eustace roads. Construction, as of late, seems to have stalled along the project corridor.
Dayton in an address to the Stafford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday assured them it hadn’t. He told them the final paving work on the project is set to begin early next month, and that “the cones will go away once they’re done.”
A contractor is working on the paving project., and once finished, it’s up to the Virginia Department of Transportation to accept the improved road into its network.
While the project is dependent upon warm weather for completion, Dayton assures Potomac Local that what seems to be a delay in the project is not related to The Garrison — a delayed shopping center that is supposed to be built at the intersection of Route 610 and Travis Lane. The mixed-use center is more than a year behind schedule and will be the county’s first true mixed-use center with apartments, condos, retail, restaurants, and a movie theater.
Dayton said that, in fact, the contractor is working ahead of schedule. The road widening project began in April 2016 with an original completion date of October 2018.
“It appears we will beat that date by about four months,” Dayton stated in an email to Potomac Local.
The contractor on the project is also responsible for the work to widen Truslow Road in the midsection of the county. It began work on Truslow Road prior to staring the Route 610 project because of a second Route 610 widening project that had been underway at Orville Road. Now completed, that project was administered by VDOT.
