
Traffic alert/detour on Route 250 Bypass in Charlottesville
Eastbound Route 250 Bypass will be shifted onto a newly constructed ramp at the McIntire Road intersection on Monday, November 10th.

Eastbound Route 250 Bypass will be shifted onto a newly constructed ramp at the McIntire Road intersection on Monday, November 10th.

On Monday, 12 Charlottesville residents will graduate from the GO Driver Program, a one-month training program that prepares city residents for a career with Charlottesville Area Transit.

The Route 29 Project Delivery Advisory Panel will hold its ninth meeting at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, 530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville.

Construction activities will require intermittent, temporary detours for motorists in Charlottesville heading from eastbound Route 250 Bypass onto Park Street.

Charlottesville Area Transit’s Free Trolley will experience three separate detours this week. The first two detours will impact the Free Trolley as it makes its way around the Downtown Mall.

The City of Charlottesville is a quarterfinalist in the Georgetown University Energy Prize, a nationwide competition for small-to-medium sized communities to compete to win a $5 million grand prize by saving energy.

The City of Charlottesville is asking for the donation of a large tree for Grand Illumination, the City’s annual holiday celebration. The tree should be an evergreen approximately 25 feet tall and have access for removal which will be handled by City staff.

Our Town Charlottesville, a series of town hall style meetings in all of Charlottesville’s neighborhoods, will begin again on Thursday, October 9 with a meeting for residents of the Belmont and Carlton neighborhoods.

Improvements to the traffic signal system along Route 29 north of Charlottesville will require nighttime lane closures beginning next week. The work, which will be done at seven intersections between Hydraulic Road and Rio Road, will begin Monday, Oct. 6 and is anticipated to continue for several months.

The City of Charlottesville is one of many jurisdictions in the US to participate in The National Citizen Survey™ in 2014. Starting on Monday, October 6, postcards will be mailed to a random sample of 1,200 City of Charlottesville households.
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