{"id":17042,"date":"2024-12-10T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/virginia-to-spend-64-million-to-add-truck-climbing-lanes-to-i-81\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:28:04","slug":"virginia-to-spend-64-million-to-add-truck-climbing-lanes-to-i-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/virginia-to-spend-64-million-to-add-truck-climbing-lanes-to-i-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia to spend $64 million to add truck-climbing lanes to I-81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The \u00a0Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has awarded a contract to construct truck-climbing lanes on I-81 in order to improve safety.<\/p>\n<p>On December 4, officials awarded a $61.4 million contract\u00a0to build truck-climbing lanes on I-81 in Augusta and Rockingham counties near Weyers Cave.<\/p>\n<p>The truck-climbing lanes will be added to the northbound and southbound directions of the interstate between mile marker 234.1 in Augusta County and mile marker 237.9 in Rockingham County.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is slated to begin in early 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe I-81 corridor has some steep grades that make it a challenge for commercial trucks to maintain interstate speed,\u201d says Dave Covington, I-81 Program Delivery Director for the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). \u201cTruck-climbing lanes in these areas help ease congestion and enhance safety for all drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project will also include lengthening the northbound and southbound deceleration lanes (off-ramps) and northbound acceleration lane (on-ramp) at the interchange of I-81 and Route 256 (Weyers Cave Road) at exit 235.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2024\/virginia-to-spend-64-million-to-add-truck-climbing-lanes-to-i-81\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a0Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has awarded a contract to construct truck-climbing lanes on I-81 in order to improve safety. On December 4, officials awarded a $61.4 million contract\u00a0to build truck-climbing lanes on I-81 in Augusta and Rockingham counties near Weyers Cave. The truck-climbing lanes will be added to the northbound and southbound directions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}