
VDOT: Avoid non-essential travel in Fredericksburg area overnight
Motorists are urged to avoid nonessential travel overnight during the storm, while snow is falling, until crews can make progress plowing and treating roads.

Motorists are urged to avoid nonessential travel overnight during the storm, while snow is falling, until crews can make progress plowing and treating roads.

Snowplows and trucks applying treatment materials made progress overnight reaching more residential areas on low-volume and subdivisions streets in the Fredericksburg area.

Three to five inches of the snow are in the forecast for Thursday, so VDOT is back at it again.

Virginia Department of Transportation crews continue to clear roads and restore service following the effects of the unprecedented snowfall on Monday.

VDOT remains in emergency operations and is focused on clearing ice and snow from major routes in the Fredericksburg area, including Interstate 95.

The Monday snowstorm that placed 10 inches of snow in some areas has left the western part of Virginia. Most roads are in clear to minor condition.

Beginning at midnight, VDOT Staunton District crews will be monitoring roads and will start plowing and treating as the weather begins in the region.

Crews in the VDOT Culpeper District are preparing for a winter storm that is forecast to arrive early Monday morning and drop 6 to 8 inches of snow across the district.

VDOT is helping ease your travel to celebrate with friends and family this winter by suspending most highway work zones and lifting most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia.

VDOT Chief Deputy Commissioner Robert Cary announced that Tabitha Crowder has been selected as the agency’s new Bristol District engineer.
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