PW County awards contract for US Route 1 improvements; construction to continue until 2021

Prince William Board of County Supervisors recently awarded a $14.5-million contract to get work started on Phase I of the Route 1 widening project between Featherstone Road and Mary’s Way. 

Phase I will consist of placing an underground water main and constructing an underground duct bank to house electrical and cable lines on the southbound side of the road. Building the duct bank and installing the water main will begin in September. Phase II is scheduled to begin in the late summer or early fall of 2019 when the duct bank work is finished.

The entire project to widen Route 1 from a four-lane road to a six-lane divided roadway will increase road capacity and will include a 10-foot-wide multi-use trail and a five-foot-wide concrete sidewalk along the length of the route. This supports the mobility goal in the county’s Strategic Plan, which states in part that “the community will have an accessible comprehensive multi-modal network of transportation infrastructure that supports local and regional mobility.”

The completion date of the entire project, which is slated to cost an estimated $113 million, is scheduled for late 2021.

Money for the project will come from federal, state, regional and local tax dollars.