5-month I-64 project to close lanes at night
The Virginia Department of Transportation will begin a five-month project on Interstate 64 today.
Work will begin at 5 p.m. and end at 5 a.m. today through Thursday. The project will be put on hold for the Labor Day weekend, and it will restart at 5 p.m. Sept. 2 with the same work hours.
During the project, one eastbound lane will be closed between milepost 105 near the base of Afton Mountain and milepost 110 between Crozet and Ivy.
The planned completion date is Jan. 21.
The project will include milling and replacing the pavement, repairing and replacing guardrails, installing rumble strips on the pavement edges and replacing lane markings and reflectors.
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AGREED!
If it is not one thing it is another. The same section of I-64 has traffic interruption. The bridge work could be the result of aging. But, now the cause of work on the surface is the pounding by the big trucks. The worst decision ever made was to allow big trucks on interstate highways. If there had been no trucks the road surface would last for years longer than now. On the other hand, in France the highways have been given over to the trucks and people travel by train. Here, I would like the freight to go by rail, all of it, and the highways limited to automobiles, plus small delivery vans to move items from the railhead to the consumer.
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