Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) will conduct a public hearing tonight, Tuesday, April 28, starting at 6 p.m. on the draft Six-Year Improvement Program (SYIP), which allocates $12.9 billion to transportation projects over the next six fiscal years beginning July 1, 2015.

Eric Marx, PRTC’s Director of Planning and Operations, has been appointed interim executive director of the transportation agency effective May 15. PRTC’s current Executive Director Alfred Harf informed the Commission earlier this year of his intent to resign after 16+ years as the organization’s leader and agreed to time his departure to suit the Commission’s need for an orderly transition.

Prince William Board of County Supervisors April 14 supported a resolution put forth by Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland to initiate the process of removing the Bi-County Parkway from the Comprehensive Plan.

Join the Virginia Department of Transportation on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Gainesville Middle School for an update on the Route 29/Linton Hall Road interchange project.

VDOT is not actively working on the Bi-County Parkway including pursuing the Programmatic Agreement or the environmental approvals from the Federal Highway Administration.’ In effect, this letter presents a significant roadblock to this project that sought to close Rt. 234 and traffic calm Rt. 29 through the Manassas National Battlefield Park, which would have affected hundreds of homeowners and businesses including the historic Sudley Methodist Church, according to Del. Tim Hugo, one of the projects major opponents.

Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles’ mobile customer service centers, called DMV 2 Go, will be traveling across the state in April to serve customers and will be at three locations in the Prince William County area--Woodbridge on April 1, Manassas Park on April 7 and Manassas on April 20.

Both southbound I-95 collector/distributor lanes for Dale Boulevard (Exit 156) will intermittently close between 9 p.m. Thursday, March 19 and 5 a.m. Friday, March 20 for signage work. Each closure will last up to 20 minutes.

Something new is coming for PRTC's I-66 commuters. Starting March 23, PRTC's OmniRide commuter buses will be authorized to drive on the paved shoulders in specific areas of I-66 inside the Beltway when the regular lanes are highly congested as part of a Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) one-year pilot program.