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State Route 3 project funded with federal stimulus money Date published: 4/17/2009
BY KELLY HANNON Federal stimulus money will pay to widen State Route 3 in Spotsylvania County, revitalizing a project that was stalled by state budget cuts. The Commonwealth Transportation Board voted yesterday to approve the first round of projects using Virginia's $694.5 million share of federal stimulus money for highways. The board approved a $110 million list of paving work, $96 million for Base Realignment and Closure Commission-related road projects, $66 million in bridge improvements, $20.8 million in rail projects and $34.2 million in design-build contracts. Most of the design-build money, $25.2 million, will go toward widening Route 3 from four to six lanes between Chewning Lane/Rutherford Drive and Gordon Road. The Route 3 widening was the most expensive project approved yesterday in the Fredericksburg area. Today, Route 3 narrows from six to four lanes at Chewning and Rutherford, only to expand to six lanes farther west at Gordon Road, just before the Harrison Crossing shopping center. The project will make Route 3 six lanes from I-95 almost as far west as Riverbend High School and Spotswood Furnace Road. Stafford Supervisor Cord Sterling, a CTB member, said, "This allocation will enable it to join the Falmouth intersection in moving forward and providing real congestion relief in the Fredericksburg region." Sterling said he'll continue to work to find funding for other projects in need of money in the Fredericksburg area, including U.S. 17 widening in Stafford, the Spotsylvania Courthouse Bypass and several new interchanges along I-95. One of the challenges of funding large-scale projects with federal stimulus money is the requirement that the project be completed within three years, Sterling said. Mary Lee Carter of Spotsylvania, also a member of the CTB, was unable to attend the meeting but sent a statement to The Free Lance-Star through the Virginia Department of Transportation: "The project will not only serve Spotsylvania and the surrounding localities, it also provides access to Interstate 95 for citizens in the Culpeper and Orange County areas. It was a lot of work, but we will see the fruits of the labor born by the County and VDOT in the near future," Carter said.
I say take that land between N. and S. 95 all the way up to DC, including the HOV and turn it into an extension of the DC metro all the way south to (at least) Massaponax! That’s what we really need!
rt3. take the land between north and south bound 95 and create it into 6 lanes each!!!
this i think is a good idea but with the park servise but the part servise has so much land on rt 3 will this be a problem for the other groups fussing about the wallmart we need will this be a battle of theres to?
Sounds like Route 3 and Harrison Road will both be under construction for some of the same time. This is going to be an interesting couple years, traffic wise.
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