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This week and next, a contractor for the Virginia Department of Transportation will replace a pipe that runs under Route 29 (Monacan Trail) approximately one mile south of Interstate 64 in Albemarle County.
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Both southbound lanes of Interstate 81 have reopened in Augusta County. Shortly after 3 p.m., Virginia State Police led traffic on a “slow roll” from exit 220, where vehicles had been detoured since this morning’s tractor trailer accident.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation has extended the closure of a portion of Interstate 64 to March 20 and 21 for bridge work between mile markers 89 and 93 in the Fishersville area of Augusta County. All work is weather permitting.
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The speed limit on a 12-mile section of Interstate 64 in western Albemarle County will increase from 65 to 70 miles per hour on Thursday, Dec. 19. The new speed zone will run from just east of the Greenwood Station Road overpass (Route 690) at milepost 106.1 to just west of the Route 29 interchange at milepost 117.7.
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At 4:55 am Wednesday (Oct. 30), Virginia State Police Trooper G.D. McCoy Jr. responded to a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 64 at the 89 mile marker in Augusta County. A tractor-trailer heading east on I-64 ran off the left side of the road and overturned in the median.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation has scheduled left lane closures for the week of Oct. 14-18 on Interstate 64 westbound in Augusta County.
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Shirley Contracting Co., LLC of Lorton began work this week on a permanent stormwater basin adjacent to Route 285. Crews will soon begin excavation for new piers and abutments that will support a new bridge over I-64 at exit 91.
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At 5:42 a.m., Virginia State Police Trooper D.L. Hughes was called to the scene of a single-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 at the 105 mile marker in Albemarle County.
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Stabilization of the Afton Mountain slope above Interstate 64 has progressed to the point where closures of I-64 are no longer necessary. The final closure was completed just before noon today. Engineers with the Virginia Department of Transportation determined that the remaining soil can safely be removed without restricting traffic.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation’s emergency project on Interstate 64 at Afton Mountain will resume on Monday, May 20 and continue through Thursday, May 23. Intermittent closures of I-64 will begin at 8:30 a.m. each day and continue throughout the day.
