So, we had our meeting on regulating SOB’s the other night and the folks from Public Works showed up with a walk-on item about the overpass on Rt. 28.
Several months ago the folks from VDOT came and briefed the Council on the progress of the project. It was an interesting presentation and this is meeting where that map that I posted awhile back came from. The representatives at that point indicated that Rt. 28 would be 4 lanes throughout the project.
Well, 3 months later and the VDOT folks indicate that we’re down to 2 lanes for the better part of 2 months. I’m listening to this guy talk and I thought my head was gonna pop off. I kinda lost my cool and let ’em know what I thought. It’s going to be a mess. We now have about 3 weeks to figure out how to route around the congestion and also to plan for emergency services. Since we’re now in with the County for dispatch there are more resources but planning is somewhat more complicated.
I’m really mad about this but there doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it. I do know that the people of at public works are going over the plan with VDOT to see what can be done. As for the traffic, both now and in the future, there isn’t much the City can do about it: the vast majority of traffic on that part of 28 is into or out of the County….
December 22, 2010 at 10:57 am
Grant Avenue and Prince William Street will also be impacted with people using those routes instead of 28. It’s too bad the extension of Stonewall had to be closed when the new rail line went in as well as the road that runs by the animal shelter. Just lovely.
December 22, 2010 at 11:02 am
The road that runs by the animal shelter has never opened up to 28. We looked at doing that a couple of years ago but the road would have to have been rebuilt. It just isn’t near big enough for real traffic.
December 22, 2010 at 11:05 am
Dean Dr. is the road I’m talking about…agree about stonewall.
December 22, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Andy,
That’s the road. I thought that it was possible to use that road to go between Wellington and 28, by way of technology drive?
December 22, 2010 at 4:24 pm
This is starting to sound like our own version of Boston’s “Big Dig”. Now all we need are some Mob guys sitting around getting paid.
December 22, 2010 at 5:02 pm
No way Dean Dr could handle bypass traffic without being completely rebuilt from scratch.
This overpass is a state project, right? 28 is a state maintained primary road like 234. I’m not sure we can compare a VDOT project on a primary road to improvements a developer has to do to local roads as part of their proffers.
December 22, 2010 at 6:50 pm
From VDOT:
“This safety project has long been a high priority for the City of Manassas. With nearly $20 million in federal stimulus dollars, the Department was able to advance this project by five years.
The total project cost is about $44 million, including $4.9 million for design, $17.5 million for land acquisition and utility relocation, and $21.4 million for construction. Federal, state and local funds paid for design, land and utilities, while $18.3 million of the construction is stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Flippo/Anderson Joint Venture is the Contractor for the project.”
December 22, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Daveb,
No question about that. However, that won’t stop people from cutting through.