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….