
Commonwealth Transportation Board approves six-year improvement program
The Commonwealth Transportation Board voted today to approve the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budgets for the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, VDOT and DRPT.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board voted today to approve the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budgets for the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, VDOT and DRPT.

“One of the things we like to say about the Rappahannock is that it’s really a couple of rivers in one,” said Lawton Clites, a Fredericksburg kayaker who first paddled the river 17 years ago.

VDOT is making your Memorial Day weekend travel easier by suspending most highway work zones and lifting most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia from noon Friday, May 24, until noon Tuesday, May 28.

Paving work requires overnight closures of the Interstate 81 northbound off-ramp at Exit 323 in the White Hall area of Frederick County.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board will host nine meetings across the Commonwealth and is inviting the public to share feedback on transportation projects that have been scored and recommended for funding, as well as other transportation initiatives.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.

Hampton Road and Commonwealth leaders celebrated more options to avoid traffic and congestion in tunnels and on Interstates 64 and 95 with the debut of a second Amtrak train service serving Norfolk.

The City of Staunton will receive a $431,200 grant award through the Virginia Brownfields Restoration and Economic Redevelopment Fund (VBAF) for Staunton Crossing.

Virginia will receive five grants totaling more than $2.8 million in the Appalachian Regional Commission’s (ARC) Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization program.