Virginia’s top transportation official hopes to get regional buy-in on the controversial I-495 Southside proposal early next year.
“This is a really, really important project,” Virginia Secretary of Transportation Nick Donohue said at a meeting on Wednesday (Oct. 21) of the region’s Transportation Planning Board (TPB).
That body last year declined to include the I-495 Southside proposal on its “Visualize 2050” long-range transportation plan, at least temporarily scuttling the project to add toll lanes on 11 miles of the highway from just east of the Springfield Interchange in Fairfax County to just east of Maryland Route 210…