GAINESVILLE, Va. — What do you get when you mix a major construction project and Jimmy Buffet? On the weekend of August 16 through 18, it’s a recipe for road delays.
Virginia Department of Transportation officials working to improve the intersection at U.S. 29 and Linton Hall Road, where a series new bridges will carry traffic on Linton Hall Road over U.S. 29 and a railroad, told drivers Wednesday to soon expect major delays in the area.
Virginia Transportation officials announced upcoming changes to the HOV lanes on Interstate 95.
Starting Aug. 5, they’ll close to northbound drivers an hour earlier in the mornings and open to southbound drivers one hour earlier each weekday.
![Now at the height of construction, a paving crew working on the 95 Express Lanes at Quantico uses a GPS assisted paving machine to lay the first new layers of asphalt. [Photo: Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]](https://www.potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/073013-express-08-600x362.jpg)
The first layers of new pavement for the 95 Express Lanes Project are on the ground. And with them comes a mean season for summer drivers.
New asphalt lies in the median of Interstate 95 at Quantico and in northern Stafford County, where there once was no road. It’s part of what will be 29 miles of new highway, or the tolled 95 Express Lanes, that when complete in late 2014, will seamlessly connect with similar lanes on the Capital Beltway from Springfield to Dulles Toll Road.
NOKESVILLE, Va. — On Aden Road in Prince William County’s Nokesville area, construction crews will be back at it in an effort to replace a bridge along the two-lane road.
More in a press release from VDOT:
![Construction crews are set to lay the final steel beams for a new bridge that will carry traffic across Interstate 95 via Telegraph Road in North Stafford. [Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]](https://www.potomaclocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/072513-Telegraph-Road-bridg-600x400.jpg)
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — Construction crews this weekend will finish what they started last weekend. New steel beams will be erected at a bridge at Telegraph Road in North Stafford.
With the new steel will come delays on along a portion of Interstate 95 where the work will take place. Drivers wills be detoured off the highway and onto U.S. 1 both Friday and Saturday nights.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — The plan for a Manassas Battlefield Bypass is simple: get the traffic out of the national park and off of hallowed ground.
The highway was approved in 1988 but is still awaiting funding. If it’s built, it would alleviate congestion on a 2-lane portion of U.S. 29 through the Manassas National Battlefield Park, taking cars out of the civil war battleground and routing them instead along a new limited-access highway that would run from the intersection of Va. 234 bypass (Prince William Parkway) and Interstate 66, and then north along the existing Pageland Lane to Va. 234 (Sudley Road) in Catharpin, and then along what would be a new portion of road along Bull Run Post Office Road to reconnect drivers with U.S. 29 in Fairfax County.
BRISTOW, Va. — A school bus was involved in a crash at the intersection of Bristow Road and Gallop Lane this afternoon, near Bristow Manor Golf Club.
There were no students on the bus at the time of the crash, and the driver of the second vehicle involved in the crash was treated at the scene, stated Prince William County Public Schools spokeswoman Irene Cromer.
QUANTICO, Va. — Yes, Interstate 95 south at Quantico closed during the overnight hours last weekend And, it’ll close again this weekend, too.
Virginia Department of Transportation officials plan to close a southbound portion of the highway in North Stafford at 9:30 p.m. Friday so crews can lay steel for a new bridge that crosses the highway.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Increased truck traffic with tankers carrying ethanol has become an issue facing commuters, residents, and Dumfries town officials and residents.
The trucks would travel from U.S. 1 in Dumfries to the winding, 2-lane Possum Point Road to a Nustar Energy facility on the connecting Cockpit Point Road.
QUANTICO, Va. — Steel beams are in place after a weekend of closures of southbound of Interstate 95 at Quantico.
Crews constructing the 95 Express Lanes from Alexandria to North Stafford focused their attention on a new flyover ramp that will carry drivers from the new Express lanes in the median of the highway to the travel lanes of I-95 south.
