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Prices on Dulles Toll Road to inch up Jan. 1

The new year brings slightly higher costs for drivers using the Dulles Toll Road. Effective Jan. 1, the toll rate for passenger vehicles at the Main Toll Plaza on the Dulles Toll Road will increase to $4 at the main...

Carrier aims to connect Dulles, Rome next summer

New five-day-a-week service between Washington Dulles International Airport and Rome will begin next June, with an increase to daily service slated later in the summer. ITA Airways, a carrier owned by the Italian government, plans to connect the two countries...

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...

Fairfax supervisors OK extension of taxi-fee surcharge

Fairfax County supervisors on Dec. 6 meeting unanimously approved a temporary, uncodified ordinance that will permit an up-to-$1-per-trip taxicab-fuel surcharge that will be in effect from Dec. 30 through June 30 next year. Supervisors have the option of rescinding the...

Fairfax moves forward with speed-camera pilot

Fairfax County police next year will implement a six-month-long pilot program to use speed-monitoring cameras at some work and school-crossing zones. “We’re doing this to increase safety for some of our most vulnerable road users – that would be schoolchildren...

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...
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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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