Virginia lawmakers have rejected a plan to add tolls to Interstate 81 to pay for $2 billion in upgrades that would improve safety and traffic flow.
A draft report to the General Assembly recommends either tolling both cars and trucks or implementing sales and gas tax increases along the I-81 corridor, similar to the taxes already in place in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
Interstate 81 is known as an accident plagued road, but one Virginia lawmaker thinks tolling truck drivers on the road and using that revenue could make the highway safer.
Virginia transportation officials hope new signs reminding drivers of the state’s high penalties for reckless driving will reduce speeding and crashes. The signs will be posted along two interstates.
A tractor-trailer overturned Monday on Interstate 81 near the Interstate 66 interchange in Frederick County, setting the cattle loose.
WASHINGTON –About a hundred cattle were on the loose in West Virginia and Maryland after an overnight crash Saturday. Berkeley County dispatchers told WTOP that a tractor-trailer hauling cattle overturned on Interstate 81 at around 2 a.m. near…
WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — The speed limit is going up on a section of Interstate 81 near Winchester. Motorists soon will be able to drive 70 mph between mile markers 312.9 and 316.2. The current…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Department of Transportation says an environmentally friendly pavement used to rebuild a section of Interstate 81 is holding up to the test of time and tires. VDOT says the…
BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police say three people are dead after a car slid into a tractor-trailer parked along Interstate 81 in Washington County. State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says the southbound tractor-trailer’s…
West Virginia State Police say whiteout conditions along Interstate 81 led to two pileups involving 44 cars.