In addition to Smart Scale, the Virginia Department of Transportation has a funding mechanism that allows localities to get up to half of the cost of developing projects. The revenue-sharing program runs every other year and City Council was asked to sign off on an application at their meeting on October 20.
“We’re looking at a sidewalk on Cedar Hill Road,” said Ben Chambers, the city’s transportation planning manager. “This is between Hydraulic and North Berkshire Road. There’s sidewalks on both ends of this, but not on Cedar Hill Road.”
Cedar Hill Road is in the city’s Meadows neighborhood north of the U.S. 250 bypass, a location somewhat cut off from other parts of the city. A funded Smart Scale project will see the intersection of District Avenue, Hydraulic Road, and Cedar Hill Road converted into a roundabout…