FALMOUTH, Va. — If you normally cross the Falmouth Bridge from Fredericksburg into to Stafford County during your morning commute, we don’t need to tell you traffic was snarled this morning.

It happened about 5 a.m. after a crew performing parapet work on the bridge was cleaning up from overnight work when their bucket truck struck an overhanging light fixture on the bridge.


PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — The overall number of bus passengers on Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission services fell by 2 percent in 2012.

Transit officials at PRTC – which provides OmniRide commuter, OmniLink local, and Metro Direct bus services for Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park – compared ridership numbers with those logged in 2011 and found the decrease.


WHITNEY SPICER
Capital News Service

RICHMOND, Va. – Ten members of the Virginia House of Delegates have written a joint letter to the state’s congressional delegation, urging the federal legislators to join in opposing VDOT’s plans to charge tolls on Interstate 95.


Update 5:30 p.m Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013

A Maryland woman was killed Tuesday morning (Jan. 22) in a two-vehicle traffic crash in Fairfax County. The crash occurred at 7:12 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95 less than a mile from Route 286/Fairfax County Parkway.


WOODBRIDGE, Va. — We know more about what led to a commotion on Interstate 95 on Friday afternoon, when traffic nearly came to a halt during a police investigation at Prince William Parkway.

Here’s more in a press release from Prince William police:


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