The study, to be completed by the Virginia Department of Transportation, will examine 219 miles of U.S. 29 from Danville on the North Carolina border to Gainesville near Interstate 66.

In the seven months since the accident that killed an Albemarle High School girl, many changes have been made to a stretch of U.S. 29 that was already considered dangerous.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will begin a five-month project on Interstate 64 today.

A few years ago, Charlottesville hardware salesman Kenneth S. Neal was hooked to an oxygen tank 24 hours a day, was expected to die and figured he’d never again be able to play a round of golf, his favorite pastime.

After a teenager was killed recently, Albemarle residents are calling a U.S. 29 intersection a death trap.

The Metropolitan Planning Organization looked long and hard into the future Wednesday afternoon, discussing both local and regional transportation projects aimed at alleviating traffic and easing mobility for anyone who sets foot in the area.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has awarded the city of Charlottesville a $328,280 Safe Routes to School project grant.

A potential obstacle to the Meadowcreek Parkway was removed Thursday when the Charlottesville School Board voted 4-1 to donate approximately 8.5 acres at Charlottesville High School to the Virginia Department of Transportation for the long-planned project.

SYRIA — A couple days of rain, thousands of freeze-thaw cycles and a steady dose of gravity wreaked havoc on the Virginia Department of Transportation on Wednes-day, creating an Orange County sinkhole and pulling down a chunk of rock outcropping near this Madison County town.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has asked the city School Board to donate approximately 9 acres for right of way and easements necessary to construct a portion of the Meadowcreek Parkway that will cut through Charlottesville High School property.