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

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.

Due to the UVA game against Pitt on Saturday, October 4, Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) will detour the FREE Trolley. Bus stops along Alderman Road, McCormick Road, and portions of Jefferson Park Avenue will not be served.

The installation of storm sewer and curbing will require intermittent, temporary detours for motorists heading from eastbound Route 250 Bypass onto Park Street. The detour and ramp closure will occur weekdays between 9am and 4pmon Friday, October 3rd to Tuesday, October 7th.

Relocation of underground utilities in the median of Route 29 (Emmet Street) will require the closure of crossovers between Hydraulic Road and the Route 29/Route 250 Bypass beginning next week. T
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