Route 50 Traffic Pattern Shift Scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29

According to Dulles District Supervisor Matt Letourneau, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) will shift traffic on Route 50 beginning next Tuesday, Jan. 29 (weather permitting).  

Letourneau's email update today reports that Eastbound Route 50 traffic from just east of Tall Cedars Parkway through the intersection at Pleasant Valley Road will be diverted approximately 50 feet to the south.  This shift will be fully operational by the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 30. 

Access to or from any of the side streets or entrances will not be impacted. 

As with any change in traffic pattern, you may want to allow a little extra time as drivers become accustomed to the shifted lanes.

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Route 50 Construction Alert: Traffic Pattern Changing Monday‏

Dulles District Supervisor Matt Letourneau reports that his office has been alerted by VDOT that there will be a significant change in the traffic pattern on Route 50 on Monday, April 16 (weather permitting).

"All eastbound and westbound lanes of Route 50 will be shifted to the north between Tall Cedars Parkway and Pleasant Valley Road.

"This time, there will be no decrease in the number of travel lanes available. Nevertheless, it often times takes drivers a few days to adjust to this kind of change, so you may want to leave yourself some extra time on Monday if you use Route 50 to commute."

The lane shift is occurring so that the contractor can repave the original lanes and relocate certain utilities.

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Long Term Planning for Route 659/Northstar Boulevard from Route 7 to Prince William County

Here's a transportation updated from the Dulles District newsletter of Supervisor Matt Letourneau.

If you’ve ever sat in traffic on Gum Springs Road headed to or from Prince William County, you know that Loudoun needs a much better north/south link.

The Countywide Transportation Plan is a 30-year planning document that acts as a roadmap (literally) for the future growth of our transportation network. For reasons that are quite frankly beyond my comprehension, the previous Board of Supervisors voted to reduce the approved number of lanes in a future southern connection from Braddock Road to Prince William to two, as Gum Springs Road currently is.

At our Jan. 17 Board meeting, the Board voted 9-0 to restore this crucial link back up to a potential 6-lane road. In addition, the Board also restored the stretch of Belmont Ridge Road from Croson Lane to Route 7 to 6-lanes. This stretch was also taken down by the previous Board of Supervisors.

These changes are critical to our long term planning and will allow us to move traffic better from Dulles South to Route 66, I-95, and the rest of Loudoun County to our north.

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