As part of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project, weather permitting, ramps in the Telegraph Road interchange of the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway I-95/495 South will be closed from Monday night, Mar. 8 through Thursday night, Mar. 11 for roadway construction. Motorists are encouraged to take alternate routes to avoid expected delays. The scheduled work is as follows:

The Alexandria Transit Company (ATC) Board of Directors held a public hearing in conjunction with their February Board meeting, to receive public comment on a proposed $.25 increase in the base fare and potential service reductions slated to go into effect in July 2010. The proposed reductions are cost-saving measures to potential City budget reductions expected for Fiscal Year 2011.

Motorists traveling on Interstate 95/495 South (the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway) should prepare for minor traffic impacts the night of Friday, February 26, into Saturday, February 27, as the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project plans to shift lanes and close ramps between the Eisenhower Metro Overpass and the Beltway bridge over Cameron Run. The shift will allow crews to prepare for upcoming construction in the Telegraph Road corridor of the Capital Beltway

As most of the work on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project draws to a close, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is concluding its pilot program to regulate traffic flow on the Capital Beltway in the vicinity of the Telegraph Road Interchange. The pilot program officially ended yesterday, and all Variable Speed Limit (VSL) equipment is currently being removed from the area.

U.S. Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) voiced his support for streetcars during an Alexandria City Council meeting this week. Council asked the Congressman to support a federal funding request for a new streetcar feasibility study to extend the proposed Columbia Pike Streetcar line over to the new BRAC-133 complex under construction by Beauregard and I-395 in Alexandria.

They are big, bad, bowl-shaped, ugly and costly when your car hits one, which is easier to do these days. They are gaping potholes of the car-swallowing kind. Although they normally crop up when springtime approaches, potholes are already the bane of existence for metro area motorists, who are navigating around huge mounds of frozen ice and coping with streets and roads still constricted by unplowed and under-plowed snow.

The City of Alexandria has been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation today for improving transit services in two major traffic corridors. The first grant, for $8.5 million, is for construction of an exclusive transitway in the median of Route 1 between Monroe Street and East Glebe Street. The City was also awarded a second grant of $670,000 for planning of new facilities to assist priority transit service in the Beauregard-Van Dorn Corridor.

As part of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project, crews again today have temporarily closed the right two lanes on the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway (I-95/495) South at the Cameron Run bridge in Alexandria to complete emergency pothole repairs caused by recent inclement weather.

As part of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project, crews have temporarily closed the right two lanes on the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway I-95/495 South at the Cameron Run bridge in Alexandria to complete emergency pothole repairs caused by recent inclement weather.

Outlandish. Dreadful. Horrendous. Terrible. Those are some of the choice and cleaner adjectives area motorists are using to describe their commute into Washington this morning, as federal workers return to their work stations for the first time this week. It was a commute from hell, and that was before a six-car Red Line Metro train bound for Shady Grove derailed at the Farragut North Metrorail station.