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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Nighttime paving on Interstate 81 in Rockingham County beginning tonight may cause delays for motorists traveling in the work zone. The paving operations will be in the northbound lanes from mile marker 236 near the Rockingham/Augusta line to mile marker 240 near the Bridgewater/Mount Crawford exit. The paving work will…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A wide load, indeed. A 28-foot-wide steel structure will be making its way up Interstate 81 from Southwest Virginia on its way to Baltimore this week, making traveling on the I-81 corridor more adventurous than usual.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The New Jersey Turnpike in the Shenandoah Valley. That’s what critics of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Interstate 81 widening plan envision happening if the engineers get their wishes. “For us, our mission is to protect farms, forests, open spaces and cultural heritage – and this is impacting all of…
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Op-Ed by Kim Sandum Just before Christmas, some of the people I work with sued the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration over plans to expand I-81. It needed to be done. The story of I-81 is a cautionary tale for the rest of Virginia about a state agency that too often…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A lawsuit is not a great option when your goal is to get government to reconsider what it’s doing relative to a road project. But the group that filed suit in federal court in Charlottesville on Monday to block further movement toward a massive reconstruction of Interstate 81 in Western…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The short-term worry is about a planned seven-mile improvement project on Interstate 81 in Rockbridge County. The longer-term worry is about the rest of the 325 miles of I-81 in Western Virginia. “That’s the biggest concern that I have – because this seven-mile project, while it is overly broad, and…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I never, ever, drive Interstate 81. I go out of my way to avoid it. And of course, this costs me to no end.
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Story by Chris Graham Tim Kaine spent a good part of his day on Wednesday talking about how he wants to take steps to strengthen regional economies in Virginia. So … what would the presumptive Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee do to improve the lifeblood of Western Virginia’s regional economy that is Interstate 81?
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Column by Chris Graham The Virginia Department of Transportation is staring down the barrel of a $6 billion gun with regard to improvements that need to be made to Interstate 81. And the transportation folks are working with two private outfits – Fluor Virginia and Star Solutions – to look at how the project might…
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A North Carolina man is dead after a horrific early-morning accident on Interstate 81 in Shenandoah County on Thursday morning.
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