What Central Virginia will buy with $276 million in infrastructure funding

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Six Central Virginia localities are getting $276 million in funding – and the Central Virginia Transportation Authority is asking for public enter on the way it ought to be spent.

The funds, which come from regional gross sales and gasoline taxes, are aimed “to enhance regional bike, pedestrian, bridge and freeway infrastructure.”

However earlier than the CVTA doles out the money, they wish to hear from residents in Goochland, Powhatan, Richmond, Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico.

Residents can learn all in regards to the proposed tasks on-line, then both attend the PlanRVA assembly on April 29 or submit feedback on-line.

“We wish to guarantee everybody in our neighborhood has a possibility to interact within the course of,” mentioned CVTA Chairman Frank J. Thornton. “We’re encouraging individuals to share suggestions about what tasks are most vital to them.”

Constructing Bridges… and Roads, and Bike Lanes

The proposed tasks, which vary in value from $2,000,000 to $37,000,000, are all enhancements to regional infrastructure. That may imply something from new bike lanes and bridges to extensions and expansions of present roads.

In Chesterfield, the most important undertaking is the connection of North and South Woolridge Highway, which will likely be 4 lanes and embody a shared-use path and sidewalks.

In Richmond, the town made an enormous bid for funds to reconstruct the Mayo bridge, asking for a complete of $38 million.

Nevertheless, the CVTA evidently didn’t agree that the undertaking deserved that help, proposing an allocation of simply $5 million.

The town did get some further help for enhancements to the PULSE bus service in Willow Garden. The bus line has devoted lanes and center-line stops in downtown Richmond, however these enhancements don’t lengthen that far uptown.

The CVTA has proposed $8.8 million so as to add devoted lanes, new pedestrian crossings and accessibility ramps.

Henrico, in the meantime, is getting hundreds of thousands to increase a number of roads throughout the county, as effectively practically $10 million to create a pedestrian bridge over I-95 to serve its new GreenCity improvement.

The bridge will present a connection from the event, which is positioned between I-95 and Parham Highway, and the Brook Highway business hall on the opposite facet of the interstate.

Hanover, Goochland and Powhatan counties collectively bought preliminary approval for over $30 million in enhancements, which included new shoulders on state route 288 and improved security at a number of harmful intersections.

The April 29 public listening to will likely be held at 8:30 am at 9211 Forest Hill Avenue, Suite 200.