The work will close a southbound highway portion at milepost 136, Centreport Parkway near the Stafford Regional Airport. Crews will raise new steel beams into place at milepost 133, Route 17 near Falmouth, as part of the effort to extend the E-ZPass Express Lanes south from Route 610 in Garrisonville.

According to the Virginia Department of Transportation, inclement weather postponed the work to begin Monday, March 7.


Mountain Road (Route 600) between Quaker Road and Ridge Road will be closed to through traffic, weather permitting, from 7 p.m. Friday, March 11 to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 12 to replace a culvert pipe, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Those needing to reach properties along Mountain Road will have access; however, traffic will not be able to go beyond the point of pipe replacement in either direction.


A woman from Alabama was died while sitting in a disabled SUV on the Captial Beltway, and a Washington, D.C. man is now facing charges.

Virginia State Police is investigating a fatal crash in Fairfax County. The crash occurred at 9:27 p.m. Saturday. March 5 on Interstate 495 near Exit 174/Eisenhower Ave Connector in Alexandria.


Police remind pedestrians and drivers to watch out as spring temperatures warm up.

In Prince William County, four pedestrians were killed in 2020, the same number of pedestrians in 2019. In all the pedestrian-involved crashes, the pedestrian was determined to have violated a traffic law that was determined to be the primary cause of the collision, according to police.


The exit from Interstate 66 west to Route 28 north and Braddock Road/Walney Road will be relocated about one-half mile east of the old exit Friday, March 11.

The new exit location is just after the I-66 bridge over Stringfellow Road and will be the permanent location for this exit as part of the Transform 66 Outside of the Beltway Project.


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