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Saturday, May 10, 2014

$203 million U.S. 29 recommendation unveiled

Albemarle County:
“A Rio Road interchange and extensions of Berkmar and Hillsdale drives form the heart of a $203 million plan unveiled Thursday as a first step toward unclogging Albemarle County’s main artery. Former Virginia Department of Transportation Commissioner Philip Shucet presented the package with a request for buy-in from a 10-member advisory panel tasked with finding solutions for the decades-old problem of congestion on U.S. 29. The state’s transportation board must approve the plan, and local officials also must sign off before the work can begin. Among its features:
  • $43 million to complete projects included in the county’s Places29 plan
  • $81 million for a Rio Road interchange and a total $145 million for new construction
  • $10 million for preliminary engineering on a Hydraulic Road interchange”

~Writes K. Burnell Evans of the Daily Progress

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