Route 29 Solutions
The Route 29 Solutions is a package of transportation projects budgeted at $230 million that were approved in the summer of 2014 in the wake of the demise of the Western Bypass.
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Background
The projects were developed rapidly after the Federal Highway Administration raised doubts that it would approve the bypass without seeing alternatives. Governor Terry McAuliffe decided to pursue other options to relieve congestion on U.S. 29 in Albemarle County and hired Philip Shucet to oversee a Route 29 Advisory Panel consisting of stakeholders from throughout the region, though the group never took a vote on the former VDOT commissioner's recommendations. A Route 29 Project Delivery Advisory Panel reviewed the project as the request for proposals for three of them were developed.
Projects
- Best Buy Ramp (under contract)
- Rio Road Interchange (contract to be awarded to Lane group in February 2015)
- Route 29 Widening between Polo Grounds road and Hollymead Town Center (contract to be awarded to Lane group in February 2015)
- Adaptive traffic signal technology (under development)
- Hillsdale Drive Extended (City pursuing right of way acquisition)
- Hydraulic Road grade-separated interchange (preliminary engineering in 2019)
- Hillsdale Drive South (to be studied alongside Hydraulic Road interchange
- Second Amtrak passenger train
Timeline
- January 24, 2015: Board of Supervisors issues statement in regard to the budget amendment
References