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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.
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Traffic
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.
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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.
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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.
The Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board unanimously approved a resolution on Nov. 24, 2020, to change the name of Route 1 in Prince William County to Richmond Highway. The County will now move forward with the name change process. This includes reaching out to business owners and residents, who live along the stretch of Route 1 in Prince William County that is impacted, to make this transition as smooth as possible.
According to Supervisor Margaret Angela Franklin, who testified before the Commonwealth Transportation Board, “This a tremendous step in the right direction as we continue the revitalization of Route 1 and spur economic growth in Prince William County. As a majority-minority county, it is time we move on from memorials to confederate leaders.”
Here are this week’s traffic hot spots in the Stafford County and Fredericksburg area provided by the Virginia Department of Transportation:
I-95 Northbound
Metro today announced plans to accelerate major capital work on the Blue Line in Virginia that will modernize the signal system in the Alexandria Rail Yard, resulting in improved safety, reliability and on-time performance.
Prince William County, in conjunction with the Fairfax County Department of Transportation, will hold a virtual information session regarding the Route 28 Bypass project on Dec. 7, 2020, at 7 p.m. The $300 million infrastructure project, one of the largest in the history of Prince William County, is aimed at reducing traffic congestion, improve travel reliability, and address other transportation challenges in the area.
The meeting is meant to inform residents of both counties about the project background, efforts to date, and the current status, focusing on proposed concepts for the Route 28 Bypass connection and tie-in point to the existing Route 28 in Fairfax County.
Stafford County recently announced they had received $8.4 million in transportation funding through the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Revenue Sharing Program for roadway improvements on Shelton Shop Road, Leeland Road and the U.S. Route 1/Courthouse Road Intersection.
Transportation fund availability varies each year since it is based mostly on gas tax dollars tied directly to gasoline sales and prices. This year, the coronavirus pandemic significantly impacted transportation funding on local, state and federal levels. To address some of the funding shortfalls in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governor Northam made changes to the state’s Six-Year Improvement Plan that reallocated funding for projects in the out years to ensure current project schedules are supported.