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Loudoun gets $34M in road money from state funding package
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Date: June 13, 2014 01:03PM
Loudoun gets $34M in road money from state funding package
http://www.insidenova.com/news/loudoun/loudoun-gets-m-in-road-money-from-state-funding-package/article_2868ae3a-c1c3-5624-8394-7082545dad1e.html
The Board of Supervisors this week accepted more than $34 million from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to help pay for some of Loudoun’s much-needed road projects. The money is Loudoun's allocation of regional funding approved through the General Assembly’s 2013 transportation package.
“This is just money coming back to Loudoun from taxes we are already paying,” Supervisor Ralph Buona (R-Ashburn) said.
The board held a public hearing Wednesday before amending the Capital Improvement Program to accept the $34.28 million. The action deposits the money into the county’s Transportation District Fund and then transfers the full amount to the county’s capital fund, as required by the NVTA.
A majority of the money will be used for two major eastern Loudoun projects. The Rt. 28 “hot spot” project will get $12.4 million for improvements, including an additional lane between Sterling Boulevard and the Dulles Toll Road. The largest chunk of money—$20 million—will be used for the widening of Belmont Ridge Road between Gloucester Parkway and Rt. 7.
That improvement will take care of a long-standing public safety concern at the crossing of the W&OD Trail. The trail crossing, when the project is complete, will no longer be at-grade—separating pedestrians and cyclists from motorists.
In addition, $880,000 will be used to purchase two new transit buses and $1 million for land acquisition for a Leesburg East park and ride lot.
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http://www.insidenova.com/news/loudoun/loudoun-gets-m-in-road-money-from-state-funding-package/article_2868ae3a-c1c3-5624-8394-7082545dad1e.html
The Board of Supervisors this week accepted more than $34 million from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to help pay for some of Loudoun’s much-needed road projects. The money is Loudoun's allocation of regional funding approved through the General Assembly’s 2013 transportation package.
“This is just money coming back to Loudoun from taxes we are already paying,” Supervisor Ralph Buona (R-Ashburn) said.
The board held a public hearing Wednesday before amending the Capital Improvement Program to accept the $34.28 million. The action deposits the money into the county’s Transportation District Fund and then transfers the full amount to the county’s capital fund, as required by the NVTA.
A majority of the money will be used for two major eastern Loudoun projects. The Rt. 28 “hot spot” project will get $12.4 million for improvements, including an additional lane between Sterling Boulevard and the Dulles Toll Road. The largest chunk of money—$20 million—will be used for the widening of Belmont Ridge Road between Gloucester Parkway and Rt. 7.
That improvement will take care of a long-standing public safety concern at the crossing of the W&OD Trail. The trail crossing, when the project is complete, will no longer be at-grade—separating pedestrians and cyclists from motorists.
In addition, $880,000 will be used to purchase two new transit buses and $1 million for land acquisition for a Leesburg East park and ride lot.
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