NEWS FROM COMMUNITY SPONSOR PRTC
Have you noticed a change at your bus stop in Washington, D.C. or Arlington? All Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission bus stop signs in those areas were replaced this spring.
Traffic
TRIANGLE, Va. — Virginia highway crews are on the scene of an overturned dump truck.
Virginia Megaprojects reports the truck overturned at mile post 148 on Interstate 95, near the back entrance to Quantico Marine Corps Base. Dirt was spilled in the left lane but no one was injured.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Bus commuters in Prince William County will now have new seats on 13 new buses.
Providers of OmniRide and OmniLink, the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission said the new buses have been delivered to their headquarters in Woodbridge. They will not be used to increase service, but to replace older buses that are rapidly aging.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Do you hold a ticket for the Prancer Express? It’s leaving the station later than some might think.
Virginia Railway Express has corrected the departure time for the holiday express train – one of several Santa Trains the agency will run on Saturday Dec. 8. The train will leave the Woodbridge station at 10:30 a.m., not 9:30 a.m. as was originally posted online.
It was a deadly weekend on the roads this Thanksgiving holiday in Virginia where 12 people lost their lives.
State police were out in force Wednesday through Sunday night during the holiday weekend. The number of fatalities rose slightly from the same time in 2011 when 11 people were killed on state roads.
DUMFRIES, Va. — Improvements are coming to U.S. 1 and Va. 234 in Dumfries.
Crews will soon begin re-aligning a right turn lane that carries drivers from Va. 234 to U.S. 1 south. The improvements will also come with some changes to traffic signals in the area, said Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Jennifer McCord.
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2:30 p.m.
All lanes of I-95 north have reopened. More from Virginia State Police:
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — Drivers on Courthouse Road now have some help knowing when other cars have come to a stop on the two-lane road.
The Virginia Department of Transportation on earlier this month planned to activate a new flashing warning system to alert drivers to stoped cars near Winding Creek Road.
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It’s the busiest travel time of the year and already drivers have packed area roadways to head over the hills and through the woods.
AAA Mid-Atlantic says more than 1 million people in the Washington area will travel more than 50 miles away from home this Thanksgiving holiday – about a 1.3 percent increase in the number of travelers over the same time last year.
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3 p.m. UPDATE FROM POLICE REPORTS
Virginia State Police have charged a New Jersey man with multiple felony counts following an early morning incident on Interstate 95 in Prince William County. David A. Servais, 23, of Millville, N.J., is being held at the Prince William County Adult Detention Center on the following charges: threatening to bomb a mode of transportation; abduction by force; drunk in public; possession of synthetic cannabinoids (spice); and fugitive from justice.