
VDOT lifting work zones for July 4 travel
VDOT is suspending many highway work zones and lift most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia from noon on Friday, July 2, until noon on Tuesday, July 6.

VDOT is suspending many highway work zones and lift most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia from noon on Friday, July 2, until noon on Tuesday, July 6.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has lifted the COVID-19 protocols that restrict walk-in visitors at VDOT offices and other public-facing facilities.

The proposed auxiliary lane would extend from the I-81 southbound on-ramp from I-64 westbound at exit 221 to the I-81 southbound off-ramp to Route 262 at exit 220 in Augusta County south of Staunton.

VDOT will make Memorial Day weekend travel easier by suspending most highway work zones and lifting most lane closures on interstates and other major roads in Virginia.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is applying an innovative solution that will help reduce the amount of time that drivers sit in crash-related congestion in the Interstate 81 corridor.

VDOT, DRPT and DCR are partnering in an effort to determine the feasibility of converting an inactive railroad segment into a 48.5-mile multi-use recreational rail trail in the Shenandoah Valley.

The stretch of U.S. 250 between Route 6 and Route 151 on Afton Mountain has been closed since May 3, and there is still no firm date for when it will be reopened to traffic, according to the VDOT engineer overseeing the project.

The Virginia Department of Transportation awarded a contract valued at $1,736,387.66 to Kickin’ Asphalt Paving and Excavating of Strasburg for work on Route 624 (Happy Creek Road) in Warren County.

VDOT’s Carrie Shepheard and Lou Hatter join the show to break down what VDOT is doing at the site of the Afton Mountain rock slide.

U.S. 250 will likely be closed for weeks while excavation and stabilization is done between Route 6 east of the summit of Afton Mountain and Route 750 just west of the Rockfish Gap Country Store.
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