Traffic
Amtrak has a deal for you if you’re traveling between Richmond and Philadelphia this fall.
The nation’s only passenger rail service announced one-way fares between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia for $25.
The road opened to traffic Monday after the four-month operation to improve the bridge.
Drivers were detoured around affected area as work progressed.
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Woodbridge, Va. –– The first phase of widening U.S. 1 in Woodbridge is fully funded.
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Woodbridge, Va. –– There’s still plenty of money to go around despite a commuter parking deal that fell flat.
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Transit officials announced Prince William County has ended its five-year, $289,000 deal with the First Baptist Church on Minnieville Road near Prince William Parkway in Woodbridge.
Officials’ hopes that commuters forced from a longtime commuter parking lot at Potomac Mills mall would choose to park at the church never materialized.
Late last month, the Commonwealth Transportation Board voted to withhold funding from a six-year transportation plan approved by the group in Richmond, reports Bloomberg Business Week.
“We’re not going to fix transportation by buying municipal fleets,” said Stafford County Supervisor Cord A. Sterling, who also represents the Fredericksburg District on the CTB. “We’ve got very limited resources and we’ve got a lot of needs.”
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The Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, the public agency that operates the commuter bus service from Prince William County to points in Northern Virginia and Washington, says 20 percent of their routes have long suffered from overcrowding –– a result of higher gas prices and congress’ decision to extend the $230 employer-sponsored commuter benefit for federal employees through 2011.
PRTC commissioners are expected to vote on the plan Thursday night.
Riders told the Washington Examiner they notified the station’s management about the feces, but it remained spattered across the concrete for the next two days.
The commuter railroad added this isn’t the VRE only station in which human feces has been found.
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A crash just south of Lorton snarled traffic between from the Occoquan River all the way to the Capital Beltway, and there are no signs traffic is easing as many commuters are making a break for the long holiday weekend.
The delays along the highway were so bad about 2 p.m. some drivers chose to drive off the highway, into a median and access the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes near Potomac Mills mall.