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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has launched an updated Park and Ride Lot website. The new website features a user-friendly interactive map interface with lot locations, options, and accommodations.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today met with local officials and Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) representatives to review and discuss the Odd Fellows Road Interchange project on US 460/29 in Lynchburg and the possibility of additional transportation improvements through an unsolicited private sector proposal.
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A crash involving 41 vehicles including six tractor-trailers closed both southbound lanes of Intestate 81 at mile marker 196 in Rockbridge County Sunday evening.
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A crash involving seven vehicles including a tractor-trailer has closed both southbound lanes of Intestate 81 at mile marker 196 in Rockbridge County. This location is between exit 200 at Route 710 in the Fairfield area and exit 195 at Route 11 in the Lexington and Timber Ridge area.
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The Interstate 81 northbound off-ramp at exit 247B in Harrisonburg will be closed for road work Aug. 12-15 from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night. This is at exit 247 at Route 33.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced that the Commonwealth of Virginia has received an unsolicited proposal pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act for the financing, design, and construction of a new interchange along U.S. 460 at Odd Fellows Road in Lynchburg.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today released the Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships’ (“OTP3”) Draft 2013 Virginia PPTA Pipeline. The pipeline – which contains both long identified public-private transportation projects and new conceptual projects – follows on the heels of a year in which the value of the deals closed exceeded almost all other transportation markets across the globe, and Virginia’s P3 program was recognized as an international leader in public-private partnerships.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced the recipients of the Governor’s Public Service Awards during a ceremony today at the Executive Mansion including the winner of the third annual “30 Day Sprint” competition rewarding the best state employee innovation idea.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday new and sustainable funding from HB 2313 boosted the state’s transportation program to $17.6 billion for the next six years; a 54% increase in funding over last year’s approved plan.
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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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