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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — They’re called bots, or ROVs — remotely operated underwater vehicles.
The students here call them the “seaperch.”
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A sedan collided with a truck carrying oxygen about 2 p.m. causing the truck to overturn and a major road closure.
It happened at the intersection of Route 234 and Pinnacle Ridge Drive, south of Lake Jackson and north of Purcell Road in Prince William County.
STAFFORD — There is a plan for a new, nearly $9 million signal light, intersection, and street in North Stafford.
The signal light will be erected on Route 1 between Woodstock Lane and Telegraph Road, at a crucifix noting the site of Virginia’s first Catholic settlement.
It’s been more than a year since Virginia State Senator Jeremy McPike was promised a review of what it would take to add estimated travel times to toll lanes on Northern Virginia’s highways.
So far, estimated toll lanes travel times have been added to only one sign — an electronic message board erected over Prince William Parkway just before Old Bridge Road — as part of a test project.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Four years after the groundbreaking, developers are ready to begin work on a new Virginia Railway Express station at Potomac Shores.
The $20 million station is considered to be the transportation centerpiece of the transit-oriented, mixed-use community nestled on the Potomac River near Dumfries.
LAKE RIDGE — The Woodbridge District Supervisor on Monday night expressed shock that a proposed amendment to the comprehensive plan didn’t pass — one that could pave the way for up to 130 new homes.
He said the proposal would have easily won five of the eight votes needed from members of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors. Probably not his, however.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — The opening of the Charlie T. Deane Police Station is behind by about three months.
The new station located at 5000 Davis Ford Road adjacent to McCoart Government Center building was due to open November 24, 2017.
WOODBRIDGE — After high winds damaged the iconic Potomac Mills sign, state officials hoped it would fall on its own.
LAKE RIDGE — A recently-completed study of the Old Bridge Road corridor suggests straightening and widening of some of the road’s most problematic stretches.
The study calls for removing a partial s-curve at the busy intersection of Old Bridge and Occoquan roads. That intersection has seen 31 crashes with 22 injuries between 2014 and 2017.
MANASSAS — The Prince William Committee of 100 will turn its attention to schools this month.
The committee will hold a panel discussion called “What is a world-class education and does Prince William County offer one?”
