STAFFORD — There is a plan for a new, nearly $9 million signal light, intersection, and street in North Stafford.
The signal light will be erected on Route 1 between Woodstock Lane and Telegraph Road, at a crucifix noting the site of Virginia’s first Catholic settlement.
It’s been more than a year since Virginia State Senator Jeremy McPike was promised a review of what it would take to add estimated travel times to toll lanes on Northern Virginia’s highways.
So far, estimated toll lanes travel times have been added to only one sign — an electronic message board erected over Prince William Parkway just before Old Bridge Road — as part of a test project.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Four years after the groundbreaking, developers are ready to begin work on a new Virginia Railway Express station at Potomac Shores.
The $20 million station is considered to be the transportation centerpiece of the transit-oriented, mixed-use community nestled on the Potomac River near Dumfries.
WOODBRIDGE — After high winds damaged the iconic Potomac Mills sign, state officials hoped it would fall on its own.
LAKE RIDGE — A recently-completed study of the Old Bridge Road corridor suggests straightening and widening of some of the road’s most problematic stretches.
The study calls for removing a partial s-curve at the busy intersection of Old Bridge and Occoquan roads. That intersection has seen 31 crashes with 22 injuries between 2014 and 2017.
STAFFORD — It would cost $35,000 a parking space to expand the Mine Road Commuter Lot in North Stafford.
Officials are looking at securing federal monies for the project to add 400 more spaces there via Smart Scale, a statewide initiative that requires localities to submit requests for transportation funding, which are then scored on a rubric that examines project merit and need.
The idea of a Potomac River commuter ferry has been floated (please, pardon the pun) for at least 10 years.
As I understand it, the ferry would pick passengers in spots in an around Woodbridge — like Belmont Bay on the Occoquan River, or at Quantico, and ferry them north to points Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Brought to us by VDOT:
FREDERICKSBURG – The Virginia Department of Transportation will close the Interstate 95 southbound on-ramp from Courthouse Road in Stafford County next week to allow crews to finish work on the temporary ramp.
Here’s what the VDOT press release has to say:
WOODBRIDGE – Route 1 traffic will be shifting onto new pavement Friday, March 2 and then Monday, March 5, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
