Work set to start on Culpeper’s inner loop

Town of Culpeper:

“For months, crews have been moving utilities. Now Culpeper’s real traffic headache is about to begin. Actual construction on the town’s inner loop (Colonel Jameson Parkway) is scheduled to start Tuesday. For the next 270 days, motorists who normally travel the Old Rixeyville Road and the Sperryville Pike should be prepared to wait or take alternate routes…

When completed, the six-tenths-of-a-mile stretch of road will link Sperryville Pike, with a roundabout at Virginia Avenue, to North Main Street, with a roundabout at the Wendy’s restaurant. The latter roundabout, on which construction began before Christmas, is part of a VDOT project to widen North Main Street to four lanes all the way to the town limits. That job, awarded to the same contractor, is not scheduled for completion until August 2015.

Colonel Jameson Parkway is planned to be completed before the North Main Street project is done. Weather permitting, the inner loop will be ready by Thanksgiving. While the inner loop is being built to alleviate backups at the Main and Evans street stoplight, this summer’s Old Rixeyville Road closure will burden that intersection even more—as will construction at the North Main Street roundabout.”

~Writes Donnie Johnston of The Free Lance–Star

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Low bid for town's western bypass construction comes in at $5.074 million

Town of Culpeper

“General Excavation, Inc. submitted a low bid of $5.074 million for construction of the town's long-imagined western bypass, a less-than-mile-long commuter route with traffic circles connecting the area near Wendy's on North Main Street to the residential corridor along Sperryville Pike at Virginia Avenue. The town project called Colonel Jameson Boulevard includes two dual-lane traffic circles: one at Old Rixeyville Road and one at Virginia Avenue in front of historic Fairview Cemetery.

General Excavation is also lead contractor on construction of a third traffic circle at the Wendy's intersection, a state project linking to the town bypass. VDOT recently awarded the separate $3.3 million project to the Fauquier County company, and construction is already underway. The state project includes a widening of route 229 in the area.”

~Writes Allison Brophy Champion of the Star Exponent

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