
VDOT launches new website highlight planned Interstate 81 corridor improvements
VDOT has launched a new website detailing projects that are underway and planned as part of Virginia’s $2 billion Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Program.

VDOT has launched a new website detailing projects that are underway and planned as part of Virginia’s $2 billion Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Program.

Work related to the Interstate 81 Exit 245 reconfiguration project will require the closure of the northbound exit ramp onto Port Republic Road.

Motorists should be alert for periodic left-lane closures on southbound Interstate 81 at mile-marker 276 in Shenandoah County for slope work.

Overnight closures of the on-ramps from Route 606 (Raphine Road) onto northbound and southbound Interstate 81 are scheduled for Sunday and Tuesday nights, May 17 and May 19.

Virginia State Police Trooper J. Joiner is investigating a single-vehicle fatal crash that occurred on Thursday at 4:20 a.m. on Interstate 81 at the 244.6 mile-marker in Rockingham County.

All Interstate 81 southbound lanes between exits 213 and 205 are scheduled to be closed from about 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesday for Virginia State Police to investigate a recent crash.

Both northbound lanes of Interstate 81 are closed at Harrisonburg due to a tractor-trailer crash about 10:30 a.m. Monday.

Drivers will not be able to exit Interstate 81 northbound at Exit 245 for a brief period in March as crews work to prepare for a realignment of the northbound exit ramp.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., spoke today on the importance of increased federal funding for Interstate 81 safety improvements.

Three people are dead from injuries in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 81 in Rockingham County on Wednesday.