OmniRide Express buses will follow the Emergency Service Plan during the afternoon/evening commute today, Monday, September 23, due to street closures for demonstrations in Washington D.C.
Beginning at 12 noon, OmniRide Express buses will only pick up from Metro stations.
The state is investing, and the VRE CEO Doug Allen is excited about plans for a rebuilt Potomac River crossing.
At a VRE Operations Board meeting Friday in Woodbridge, DRPT Director Jennifer Mitchell used those words, “huge” and “transformational” to describe a $1.9 billion project to build a new Long Bridge across the Potomac River.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) hopes to have a contractor lined up to build the second of two new river crossings over Interstate 95, by the end of Summer 2020.
This bridge is separate from another new center bridge now being built over the Rappahannock in between north and southbound I-95.
Starting Sept. 30, most hybrid vehicles will no longer be able to use HOV lanes without the required number of occupants, according to federal law.
The rule applies even if the vehicle displays a clean special fuel license plate.
The Washington D.C. to Richmond Southeast Higher Speed Rail Project (DC2RVA) has just been made eligible for additional federal funding to advance the project’s planning.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) announced the signing of the Record of Decision and the completion of the Environmental Impact Statement study.
Officials are working to purchase land for the future right-of-way for an expansion of Route 1 at Courthouse Road. But the cost is on the rise due to inflation, county officials said.
Last year, the budgeted cost was about $14 million. Now it’s increased to they’ve doubled, at $18.7 million.
With nearly 90,000 aircraft that fly in and out of the Manassas Regional Airport, which sits on nearly 1,000 acres of land, injecting some $375 million into the local economy each year, officials there say it’s time for the state’s only commuter railroad to recognize its size.
The airport’s operations board has asked Virginia Railway Express to remove the “Broad Run” portion of the name of the commuter railroad station, leaving only the airport’s name, dubbing it “Manassas Airport Station.”
That’s the message from the county’s communications office to members of the Board of Supervisors who are waiting to see if voters will approve the proposed bond at the voting booth on Nov. 5.
The money would go to improve multiple roads, to include
WOODBRIDGE – (Press Release) OmniRide will offer free rides on all buses on Friday, September 20, 2019 to celebrate Virginia’s annual Try Transit Week – an educational event designed to encourage people to try a bus, commuter rail, ferry or vanpool rather than driving alone.
Try Transit Week is set for September 16-20, 2019 and is sponsored by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT).
The signs erected at — you guessed it — bus stops, will be placed at stops across the county, and at stops in Arlington and Washington, D.C.
The featured photo in this post shows an example of a new bus stop sign that’s sitting in an OmniRide office. The new signs are expected to make their debut first in western Prince William County in January.
