WOODBRIDGE — After high winds damaged the iconic Potomac Mills sign, state officials hoped it would fall on its own.
Traffic
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.
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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.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Officials are reviewing a project that would add a 4th travel lane on Interstate 95 south in Prince William County.
The lane would run from Route 123 to Prince William County and push back a bottleneck on the highway drivers face as the cross the Occoquan River, where the highway’s regular travel lanes reduce from eight to six.
From a press release from OmniRide [Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission]
PRTC has a new Executive Board that will oversee the mobility services operated and sponsored by the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission.
WOODBRIDGE — The search for the site of a new $37 million parking garage officially begins.
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday authorized county Transportation Director Rick Canizales to use nearly $300,000 for a study that will determine the best site for the commuter garage.