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Repairs get started on I-395 bridge in Arlington

Repairs are underway on the weight-restricted (20 tons) southbound I-395/Route 1 Exit 8C bridge, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) officials said. The project is designed to improve safety and extend the overall life of the bridge, which carries southbound Route...

Should Arlington be looking at a future without airport?

Give Michael Imbesi credit for thinking to the future. Way into the future. At the Dec. 17 Arlington County Board meeting, the local resident used the public-comment period to press county leaders to start thinking about an eventual reuse of...

Reagan National puts COVID in rear-view mirror; Dulles still plays catch-up

Northern Virginia’s two commercial airports continue to show different comebacks to the residual impacts of COVID. For October, the passenger count at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (2,271,546) was up 6.3 percent from October 2019, the last pre-COVID comparable month,...

Panel may consider turning all bus service over to N.Va. localities

Even a cursory examination of newspaper archives reveals that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) often has been a financial and operational basket case almost since its inception a half-century ago. But would devolving bus service entirely to localities...

Comings, going on Airports Authority board noted

It was comings-and-goings sort of day at the monthly meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority on Dec. 14. The board formally welcomed Brett Gibson, who recently was appointed by Gov. Youngkin to a six-year term as one of Virginia’s...

Airport parking lots making it through holidays unscathed

Even with a boost in travelers, the Thanksgiving holiday brought no great stress on the parking facilities at Northern Virginia’s two commercial airports. The parking lots and garages “were never in danger of filling completely,” said Chryssa Westerlund, executive vice...

DMV: No time like present to get ‘REAL ID’

Nearly 2.8 million Virginians have risen to the challenge of obtaining a REAL ID-compliant state driver’s license or identity card. Those who still plan to do so suddenly have yet another reprieve. The federal government has announced it will extend...

Regional drunk-driving data show ups, downs

The number of alcohol- and drug-related traffic fatalities decreased by 10 percent between 2020 and 2021 in the metropolitan Washington area, but other indicators – alcohol-related injuries, crashes and arrests – increased during the same period. That’s according to the...

Electric-vehicle-charging stations growing across Va.

Virginia is slightly trailing the national average when it comes to electric-vehicle-charging stations, but take California out of the mix, and the Old Dominion moves closer to the top. The analysis by CoPilot found that Virginia has a total of...

After month of free fares, VRE ridership dips

Here’s more proof, if any was needed, that the most impactful four-letter word in the English language really does stare with an “f.” “Free.” Virginia Railway Express’s average daily ridership dropped nearly 10 percent from September to October, according to new...
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New School Board member receives liaison assignments

New Arlington School Board member Bethany Sutton has her assignments. School Board members on Feb. 2 are expected to approve...
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