WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Funeral services for Woodbridge Occoquan Lorton VFD Fire Chief Richard Arrington will be held Saturday, and local roads will be impacted by a funeral procession.
After the ceremony at First Baptist Church on at Prince William Parkway and Minnieville Road in Woodbridge at noon, a motorcade will leave the church for Fairfax County.
UPDATE Friday 2 p.m.
The driver of the Kia, Sara M. Jones, 29, of Woodbridge, Va., died at the scene.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A new commuter lot on Telegraph Road in Woodbridge opened today with little fanfare and few commuters.
Prince William County transportation officials that built the new lot said they will install new signs to direct drivers to the new lot.
Did you travel Virginia’s interstate highways this weekend and notice a green gecko staring back at you? The Geico insurance company, known for its gecko advertising pitchman, has sponsored the state’s 43 rest areas. Signs with the reptile’s face have been placed along the roadside near the stops guiding them to rest stops, noting them as safe places to use your cell phones.
The sponsorship will help defray some of the operating costs associated with the rest stops, and it is the first time state rest stops in Virginia have been sponsored. It also comes after the 2010 reopening of many of the rest stops which had been closed during the previous year to save $9 million.
NORTH STAFFORD, Va. — A bridge rehabilitation project has finished on Va. 610 (Garrisonville Road) over Aquia Creek in Stafford County, just west of the intersection with Joshua Road.
Both travel lanes over the bridge are now open to traffic.
Despite an overall weak economy and a hurricane that could impact weekend plans, travelers are expected to hit the roads for one last summer blast.
The Labor Day holiday travel weekend begins Friday and nearly 800,000 residents in the Washington area are expected to travel 50 miles or more away from home. It’s a 3.5 percent increase over the number of travelers last year with many of them planning to drive, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.
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TRIANGLE, Va. — Two cars were hit by falling power lines this morning on Interstate 95 at Triangle. The Power lines were accidentally cutby crews working to build toll lanes on Interstate 95.
No injuries were reported.
UPDATE
The driver, Edwin H. Hall, 59, of Charles Town, W.Va., died at the scene. His remains have been transported to the Office of the Medical Examiner in Manassas for examination and autopsy.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A pilot test designed to improve commuter bus fuel efficiency was so successful that the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, PRTC, is now proceeding to retrofit more than two dozen buses with the technology.
Pilot testing began last fall, when PRTC agreed to partner with Engineered Machined Products Inc., EMP, on a first-ever test in which EMP engineered and installed its Mini-Hybrid radiator cooling equipment on one of PRTC’s commuter buses. EMP’s equipment was previously tested on conventional transit buses, (those that travel at relatively low speeds and make frequent stops), yielding such impressive fuel efficiency savings that the cooling system is now used by a number of transit systems that operate conventional transit buses, including PRTC. But the cooling system had never been tested on a motor coach that typically operates at higher speeds for longer distances, such as the buses that make up the majority of PRTC’s fleet.
