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Common Sense or Delaying Tactic?
Opponents of the Charlottesville Bypass are calling for an update to the project’s 18-year-old environmental impact analysis. Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Transportation
Promises, Promises
The Charlottesville Bypass is a go, thanks to approval by the Charlottesville-Albemarle MPO. But it’s unclear when the money for other promised U.S. 29 corridor improvements will be forthcoming. Continue reading
A Bridge Too Near
There’s a new wrinkle in the Charlottesville Bypass controversy. The bridge across the Rivanna River may prove to be far more expensive than anyone anticipated. Continue reading
Officials Celebrate Completion of U.S. 29 Projects
More than three years after the Federal Highway Administration halted construction of the Charlottesville Bypass on U.S. 29, state and local officials celebrated yesterday the opening of a package of alternative projects known as the Route 29 Solutions projects, the … Continue reading
Layne's Law
by James A. Bacon After spending a year and a half cleaning up the mess left by the previous administration — the Charlottesville Bypass, Norfolk’s Midtown-Downtown Tunnel, the U.S. 460 Connector in Tidewater — Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne now has … Continue reading
Layne’s Law
by James A. Bacon After spending a year and a half cleaning up the mess left by the previous administration — the Charlottesville Bypass, Norfolk’s Midtown-Downtown Tunnel, the U.S. 460 Connector in Tidewater — Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne now has … Continue reading
Posted in Government Finance, Planning, Transportation
Tagged Interstate 66, James A. Bacon, Public private partnerships
U.S. 29… The Saga Continues
The battle over the Charlottesville Bypass may be over, but the battle over what to do instead is heating up. After pulling the plug on the super-controversial, $240 million bypass early last year, the McAuliffe administration dusted off a plan … Continue reading
Transparency, CTB Autonomy Guide New Vision for Transportation Governance
by James A. Bacon The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has a system for dispensing its approximately $2 billion a year in construction funding that is so blindingly complex that only a few people understand it. If I started explaining … Continue reading
Governance Reform for Transportation Spending
by James A. Bacon Among key initiatives in the transportation package that Governor Terry McAuliffe announced yesterday are important proposals to reform the governance of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) and the Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) process. CTB autonomy. The bipartisan legislative package, worked out … Continue reading
McAuliffe Team Continues Transportation House Cleaning
by James A. Bacon I’ve been out of town attending a conference so I wasn’t able to cover the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) meeting this month. But based on press coverage and press releases, it sounds like Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Transportation
Tagged Charlottesville Bypass, James A. Bacon, U.S. 460
Bacon Bits
More, more, we want more! Richmond BizSense profiles Richmond entrepreneur Matt Ellington who has built a business around tearing down small, cheap houses and replacing them with bigger, more capacious houses. Rather than remodel existing houses, he tears them down to the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Feet-to-the-Fire Time for Layne, Kilpatrick
by James A. Bacon Virginia taxpayers will have to suck up a $400 million to $500 million loss if the U.S. 460 upgrade between Petersburg and Suffolk never gets built, Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne told the House Appropriations Committee yesterday. “If … Continue reading
Virginia’s Behind-the-Scenes Transportation Planning Revolution
by James A. Bacon The McAuliffe administration is generating big headlines by re-thinking mega-projects like the Charlottesville Bypass and the U.S. 460 Connector favored by the previous administration. Those projects came to the fore because federal regulatory authorities made it … Continue reading
Busy Day at the CTB
Many meaty stories from the Commonwealth Transportation Board meeting today. It will take me a long time to do them all justice, so, for the moment, I will settle for whetting your appetite with the highlights. The Charlottesville Bypass is … Continue reading
Posted in Transportation, Uncategorized
Tagged Charlottesville Bypass, James A. Bacon, mass transit, U.S. 460
U.S. 460 Project Implodes: State Suspends Spending
by James A. Bacon Having spent $300 million on the U.S. 460 upgrade between Petersburg and Suffolk, the state is suspending contract and permit work on the project until a critical environmental review by the Army Corps of Engineers can … Continue reading
