Regional transportation planners are close to completing a yearlong study of Interstate 64 and U.S. 250 that will be used to identify ways to ease congestion and improve safety along a corridor that can become paralyzed with a single crash. “For western Albemarle residents, it is a daily nightmare of whether traffic is going to […]
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VDOT behind schedule replacing guardrails posing crash risks
In 2015, the Virginia Department of Transportation concluded that a guardrail product used on roads throughout the state was defective and could cause the metal rails to spear vehicles and their occupants in a head-on crash. VDOT announced it would remove these “functionally obsolete” guardrail “end terminals” on roads that presented the greatest risk of […]
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PHOTOS: ET-Plus Guardrail Crashes in Virginia
During October 2016 to January 2017, Charlottesville Tomorrow conducted an investigation into guardrail safety in Virginia and specifically the inventory of ET-Plus guardrails and VDOT’s plans to replace them.
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Residents offer ideas to reduce I-64 crashes, congestion
A small group of community members gathered at the Crozet Library on Monday evening to provide input into a project to help address safety concerns on the region’s busiest highway. “This is early on in our Interstate 64 corridor planning process and this is our initial information gathering on existing conditions,” said Wood Hudson, a […]
