The Virginia Railway Express Operations Board today unanimously approved a slate of officers for 2021. Installation of the new officers will take place at the board’s January 15 meeting.
City of Alexandria Vice Mayor Elizabeth Bennett-Parker will chair the 15-member Operations Board. Bennett-Parker, who joined the board in 2019, served as vice-chair this past year. She represents the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC).
Safety permeates every aspect of the Virginia Railway Express (VRE). It guides all actions and decisions by staff, train crews, maintenance workers, and the Operations Board. For its holistic approach to safety, VRE is the 2020 recipient of the Virginia Transit Association’s (VTA) Exceptional Safety Award.
“Safety is foremost in VRE’s mission statement,” said VRE Operations Board Chairman Gary Skinner. “If VRE service isn’t safe, being cost-effective, accessible, reliable, convenient and comfortable doesn’t matter. Safety is more than a philosophy at VRE. It is a culture.”
The situation on Brooke Road has become intolerable.
That was the gist of a situation, according to residents that spoke to the Stafford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, December 15. In the last couple of years, floodwaters have made driving on Brooke Road a dangerous prospect, especially on the S-curve that lies near Accokeek Creek.
At 9:07 a.m. on Tuesday, December 15, Virginia State Police responded to a crash on Route 17 near Route 301 in Caroline County.
The preliminary investigation reveals that a 2019 Volkswagen Jetta was traveling south on Route 17 when it ran off the road to the left and struck a tree.
Stafford County wants to change the name of Route 1, but leaders there would prefer a different name than what Delegate Joshua Cole (D-28, Fredericksburg, Stafford) proposes.
At a meeting of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, December 15, a leaders discussed a Cole’s bill that will introduced into the Virginia General Assembly, which begins on January 13, 2021, that would remove the name of Jefferson Davis from Route 1 and rename the highway after the Loving Family, of Caroline County.
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OmniRide told us today just before 2 p.m. that the transit agency was able to operate regular service and did not active its emergency service plan, as it had planned to do on Friday, December 11, 2020.
Occoquan officials aim to put a cap on the amount of time you can park your car in one spot.
The Town Council is looking into a new timed parking program that would allow police to use an electronic handheld scanner to mark your tires’ position and then use the information to see whether the car had been moved in the past three hours.
OmniRide’s Fall Service Change will take effect on Monday, December 14, and will include changes to most routes. All printed schedules will be reprinted with new effective dates.
As a series of road widening projects intended to ease congestion along Route 1 progress, Prince William County’s Department of Transportation is beginning to explore another means of moving people up and down the eastern part of the county.
The DMV Select at Dumfries Town Hall will remain shuttered indefinitely.
Town Manager Keith Rogers told members of the Town Council at a meeting on Tuesday, November 17. He plans to keep the center shuttered until the number of new coronavirus cases reported in Prince William County decline.
