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By Kathryn Watson | Virginia Statehouse News
ALEXANDRIA — Gov. Bob McDonnell is seeking comments from the private sector and the public in prioritizing Virginia's transportation projects.
On Tuesday, McDonnell announced the Office of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships’ “pipeline” of well-established transportation projects, as well as new transportation ideas under consideration through Virginia’s Public-Private Transportation Act. The 1995 law allows private groups to enter into agreements for transportation construction, maintenance and improvement projects.
Feedback will be accepted until July 2.
The candidate projects are:
- Interstate 95 corridor improvements
- Regional traffic operations centers
- Conversion of I-64 high-occupancy vehicle lanes on I-64 to high-occupancy toll lanes
- I-64 peninsula improvements
- Port of Virginia
- Hampton Roads Crossing improvements
- NOVA North-South Corridor
- I-66 corridor improvement project
The conceptual projects are:
- I-495 express lanes extension
- "GoldStar" truck validation system
- Wallops Island visitor and support facilities
- Advertising and sponsorship opportunities
- Dulles Metro rail station air rights opportunities
- Electric car charging stations at rest areas
- Truck parking facilities at rest areas
- Parking facilities privatization
- I-81 Managed Travel Lanes System in Roanoke
- Cell towers and fiber-optic opportunities
- Route 460/58 connector
- Innovation Drive, Bristol
- Route 460/I-85 connector
- Route 460 business corridor improvements
