HOT Lanes Work Started as of June 24, 2008

From VDOT:

News Release
www.VirginiaDot.org


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2008
NR08-95HL4
Contact: Steven Titunik 703 383-2530, 703 928-6569

TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Day and Night closures for I-95/I-395 HOT Lanes Pre-Project, July 14-18, 2008


The Virginia Department of Transportation announces the following lane closures along I-95/ 395 from Route 610, Garrisonville Road to the Pentagon as part of project development for the I-95/395 HOT Lanes project:


HOV Lane closures- Night work

When: Monday through Friday, July 14-18, 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
What: Left lane closure
Where: I-395 north, just after Route 7; King Street
Why: Test bore

I-95/395 North

When: Monday through Thursday, July 14-17, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
What: Right lane of exit ramp closure
Where: I-395 north, Off ramp Exit 6; Shirlington
Why: Test bore

When: Monday through Thursday, July 14-17, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
What: Left Lane closure
Where: I-95 north at Exit 2; Edsall Road Route 648;
Why: Test bore

When: Monday through Thursday, July 14-18, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
What: Right shoulder closure
Where: I-95 north at
Exit 2; Edsall Road Route 648
Exit 166; Fairfax County Parkway Route 7100
Exit 163; Lorton Road Route 642
just after Exit 158; Prince William County Parkway Route 3000
Why: Test bore


When: Monday through Thursday, July 14- 17, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
What: Left shoulder closure
Where: I-95 north before Exit 156; Dale City boulevard
Why: Test bore

When: Monday through Thursday, July 14-17, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
What: Left shoulder closures
Where: I-95 north
just after Exit 148; Russell Road
just after Exit 143; Garrisonville Road
Why: Test bore

I-95 South

When: Monday through Thursday, July 14-17, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Friday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
What: Left shoulder closure
Where: I-95 south before Exit 148; Quantico
Why: Test bore

HOV Rolling closures – Night work

When: Monday through Friday, July 14-18, 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
What: Left and right lane closure (one at a time)
Where: HOV lanes from Pentagon south to Exit 152; Dumfries Road Route 234
Why: Test bores and surface testing

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I got it exactly that way from my supervisor.

I doubt NoSUV has the time to make up bogus news releases and post them on random message boards.

ain't free speech a wonderful thing, until you don't like the views being stated? - Ceejay2

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Originally posted by MDC

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Originally posted by toomuchcoffeelady

I doubt NoSUV has the time to make up bogus news releases and post them on random message boards.

ain't free speech a wonderful thing, until you don't like the views being stated? - Ceejay2

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Ceejay,
It has nothing to do with that. I found the news release on another site and posted the link myself. It's because posting a link to the "source" of the info that does not lead to that info is something that should be avoided.

On other message boards, a warning would be posted in the thread to "link it or lose it" and it would be deleted after an hour or two unless the original poster updated the info with a correct link.

Why don't you go look at the video which explains how HOT lanes work and report back? :p

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I'm toomuchcoffeelady, not ceejay.

Also, I do not remember seeing a "link it or lose it" rule for this discussion board.

And watch the video yourself if it's that important to you.

ain't free speech a wonderful thing, until you don't like the views being stated? - Ceejay2

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Originally posted by MDC


I've seen the video already. It "shows how HOT lanes will work".

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Wait, I've seen this place before! These HOT lanes exist in some far away place, its called Fantasy Land!

If this video is supposed to show how HOT lanes will work, they left out a bunch of stuff: what about the entry and exit back-ups when the "variable fares" change, or the backups caused by busses? Also the cars in this video are all wrong; they should all be Mercedes, BMWs and Lexuses, because the average Joe can't afford to pay $1.90 a mile. And the video should include planes overhead with bags of toll and taxpayer money flying away, from the local economies in the USA to Australia. Finally, the non-HOT lane traffic (the gray vehicles in this video) is moving much slower than the HOT lanes; wrong. It will be a parking lot! Finally, the video left out the smiling faces of VDOT and Flour executives in the windows of the buildings who will have succeeded in a huge swindle of the US taxpayer. This video also left out the struggling middle class commuter who now must dig even deeper into their pockets to pay yet another government imposed cost of living.

HOT is highway robbery! Barbara Reese is a pirate!