{"id":21223,"date":"2023-08-26T21:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T04:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/670m-i-95-express-lanes-extension-opens-in-northern-virginia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T04:28:54","slug":"670m-i-95-express-lanes-extension-opens-in-northern-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/670m-i-95-express-lanes-extension-opens-in-northern-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"$670M I-95 Express Lanes extension opens in Northern Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The 10-mile, $670 million I-95 Express Lanes extension in Northern Virginia opened on Aug. 17, with the goal of giving drivers a faster and more reliable trip from Washington, D.C., to Fredericksburg, Virginia. With this addition, Virginia has the longest reversible toll lane in the country at more than 45 miles long.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The \u201cFredEx\u201d high-occupancy toll lane project is a public-private partnership between the Virginia DOT and Australian road operator Transurban. A joint venture between Roanoke, Virginia-based Branch Civil and Broomfield, Colorado-based Flatiron Construction built the lanes, which run between Aquia Harbor, Virginia, and Fredericksburg, Virginia. Transurban manages the lanes and financed the project.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-right inside_story\">\n<div class=\"figure_content\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"inside_story_caption\">\n<p>Map of I-95 express lanes extension and new on\/off ramps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"source_text\">Retrieved from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/expresslanes.com\/95extension\" target=\"_blank\">Transurban<\/a> on August 24, 2023<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The extension broke ground in 2019 and was slated to be finished in October 2022, but was delayed due to a contractual <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/transportation\/2021\/12\/20\/virginia-express-lanes-fredericksburg-delayed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>dispute over soil conditions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>. Branch Civil-Flatiron argued that plastic clay and silt material in the area required a different construction approach and affected its ability to keep the project on schedule. In 2021 an arbitrator ruled that the JV was entitled to a price adjustment and more time to complete the work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The new extension picks up where the I-95 express lanes currently end, just past Route 610 in Stafford County, Virginia. So far the state has built nearly 100 miles of express lanes on I-95, I-66, I-395 and I-495, the Washington Post reported.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>There is a little more work to be done before the extension project is fully complete: The second phase entails four new on\/off ramps in busy areas. They are scheduled to open this winter, according to Transurban.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/i-95-express-lanes-toll-extension-open-virginia\/691763\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The 10-mile, $670 million I-95 Express Lanes extension in Northern Virginia opened on Aug. 17, with the goal of &#8230; <a title=\"$670M I-95 Express Lanes extension opens in Northern Virginia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/670m-i-95-express-lanes-extension-opens-in-northern-virginia\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about $670M I-95 Express Lanes extension opens in Northern Virginia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}