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The Broad Run Station is the first stop on the Manassas commuter rail line on weekday mornings and the last each weekday afternoon.
And it could become a thing of the past.
Increasing the threshold of the infamous BPOL tax in Prince William County is just the start of the conversation.
The BPOL tax (business and professional licensing tax) is collected on the amount of gross receipts from licensed local businesses that generate at least $250,000 in gross sales. Tax rates vary between 5 cents and 33 cents per every $100. The tax collects $26.5 million in annual revenue for the county.
The Virginia Railway Express has grown since its inception in the early 1990s.
Today it carries more than 18,000 passenger trips. Trains on the system’s Fredericksburg and Manassas lines are packed with commuters each weekday, headed from the Virginia exurbs to employment centers in Alexandria, and in Washington, D.C.
Coming to a commuter lot near you this winter (if it snows): A jet-powered snow melter.
The Virginia Department of Transportation gave us an annual look at how they plan to do battle with Old Man Winter this year. It’s the agency’s job to keep more than 17,000 lane miles in Prince William, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties clear of snow and ice. About half of those roads are major highways and heavily-traveled arterials while the other half is neighborhood streets.
Residents Tuesday night packed the lecture hall at Gainesville Middle School to hear about plans to extend Virginia Railway Express to their neighborhood.
The state’s only commuter railroad is conducting a 2-year, $4 million planning and engineering a study to examine the impacts and costs of extending VRE’s Manassas line west, and building a new station at Innovation Park at George Mason University in Manassas, in Gainesville, and in Haymarket.
Traffic is one the most common complaints from those who live around here. That means officers in the Prince William County Police Department Traffic Unit have job security.
The 21 police officers that make up the traffic enforcement unit are easy to spot on their blue motorcycles.
A new education center in Woodbridge tells the story of how Prince William County gets its water.
The Durward E. Grubbs Environmental Education Center will open this month. Located at the Edward Mooney Advanced Water Reclamation Facility off Rippon Boulevard, the new center is part lab space and part museum.
Jeremy McPike kept the 29th District Virginia seat firmly in the hands of Democrats Tuesday night.
His 16-point victory over Republican Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish clears the way for first-time elected official to go to Richmond and replace the long-serving Charles “Chuck” Colgan, the state’s longest-serving senator who retired this year at age 89.
Samuel Seward plans to head for the Dominican Republic after Thanksgiving.
It’s a vacation trip that he and his friend Gail Jones have been planning for some time. Seward needs a U.S. Passport before he can travel to the Caribbean nation.
