Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
State and municipal turnpike projects; repeals certain Code provisions. [SB-896]
State and municipal turnpike projects. Repeals certain Code provisions relating to the establishment of turnpikes. The Commonwealth Transportation Board and the Virginia Department of Transportation have never used these sections to issue revenue bonds for turnpike projects and no city or town has constructed a toll facility connected to a state turnpike project.
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Transportation Board; cooperation with persons maintaining marine museums. [SB-894]
Commonwealth Transportation Board's cooperation with persons maintaining marine museums. Repeals a Code of Virginia provision authorizing the CTB to cooperate with persons maintaining marine museums in a county in the Commonwealth adjoining a city located on navigable water with a population of 30,000 or more.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Integrated Directional Sign Program; fees charged for participation. [SB-881]
Integrated Directional Sign Program. Provides that fees charged for participation in the Integrated Directional Sign Program (Logo Signs) will be based, in the case of single attractions accessible from more than one access ramp, on the number of access ramps at which the signs are places, and not the number of signs.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
George Washington Toll Road Authority; adds Stafford County as participating locality. [SB-874]
George Washington Toll Road Authority. Adds Stafford County as a participating locality.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Golf carts; clarifies existing law pertaining to crossing highways. [SB-871]
Golf carts. Clarifies existing law pertaining to crossing of highways by golf carts and utility vehicles.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
VDOT; highway maintenance contracts. [SB-834]
VDOT highway maintenance contracts. Allows VDOT to contract with private entities for the maintenance of state-owned highway rights-of-way in return for the Department's permission for display by the private entity of a single advertising sign, no larger than 18 inches x 24 inches, for each direction of traffic on the maintained portion of the right-of-way.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Motorcycles and mopeds; use of bridges in high winds. [SB-740]
Motorcycles and mopeds; use of bridges in high winds. Requires VDOT to prohibit use of certain bridges in Hampton Roads by motorcycles and mopeds during periods of high wind.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
TransDominion Express Commission; established. [SB-435]
TransDominion Express Commission. Establishes the TransDominion Express Commission, to be responsible, within the TransDominion Corridor, for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements of or repairs to railroads and their facilities, and equipment to provide enhanced passenger rail service coordinated with freight rail opportunities within the corridor.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Rumble strips; installation on sides of highways having speed limits of at least 55 miles per hour. [SB-200]
Rumble strips. Provides that rumble strips shall be installed on highways in the Commonwealth having speed limits of at least 55 MPH.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Rail Transportation Development Authority; established, abolishes Rail Advisory Board. [SB-1468]
Rail Transportation Development Authority. Establishes the Rail Transportation Development Authority. The Authority is to be responsible for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements, or repairs to railroads and their facilities and equipment. The Authority is given the power to finance or assist in financing any such rail transportation project. The bill requires the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, in conjunction with the Authority, to develop a rail transportation plan for the Commonwealth. The bill
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank; created, report. [SB-1446]
Transportation funding. Creates the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (Bank) as a new source for funding transportation projects. The Bank would be managed and administered by the Virginia Resources Authority and would be capitalized as recommended by the Governor and appropriated by the General Assembly. Up to 20 percent of the capitalization of the Bank would be used to make grants to localities for transportation projects, and the remainder would be used to make loans to private or public entities for transportation projects. The bill
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Homeowners' associations; funds for highway maintenance to be distributed. [SB-1397]
Allocations to certain homeowners' associations; highway maintenance and maintenance replacement. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board annually to set aside from all funds available for highway maintenance and construction $50 million to be distributed among homeowners' associations within the Commonwealth for use exclusively for highway maintenance and maintenance replacement.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Highway rumble strips; requires installation along all highways with speed limits of 55 mph or more. [SB-1370]
Highway rumble strips. Requires installation of rumble strips along all highways with speed limits of 55 mph or more.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Highway revenue sharing construction funds; removes $1 million cap. [SB-1329]
Highway "revenue sharing" construction funds. Removes the $1 million cap for individual allocations and changes first priority for allocation to congestion relief. The bill also changes the maximum and minimum appropriations from $50 million and $15 million to $250 million and $50 million. This bill was incorporated into
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation funding; provides new and increased taxes, tolls, and general fund revenues. [SB-1295]
Transportation funding. Provides new and increased taxes, tolls, and general fund revenues for transportation funding. The bill would (i) decrease the motor fuels tax from $0.175 per gallon to $0.05 per gallon and establish a five percent tax on motor fuels sales based upon the statewide average wholesale price of a gallon of self-serve unleaded regular gasoline; (ii) subject to the amount of the additional revenues generated by the changes described in clause (i), increase the motor fuels tax rate by $0.10 per gallon in increments of $0.02 per
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway; designating as I-664 and I-264 in Hampton Roads Highway District. [SB-1290]
Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway. Designates I-664 and I-264 in the Hampton Roads Highway Construction District the "Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway."
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Highway contractors; state taxes paid to be dedicated for transportation purposes. [SB-1285]
State taxes paid by highway contractors dedicated for transportation purposes. Dedicates to the Transportation Trust Fund all state retail sales and use and income taxes paid by highway contractors.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation; creates additional revenue by increasing motor vehicle sales & use and rental taxes. [SB-1242]
Revenues of the Commonwealth; transportation funding. Creates additional sources of revenue for transportation by increasing the motor vehicle sales and use tax by one-half percent and the motor vehicle rental tax by one percent and by imposing a five percent tax on the wholesale price of gasoline. The new revenue sources will be directed to the Rail Enhancement Fund, the Transportation Trust Fund, and the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund for transportation projects and needs of the Commonwealth and to certain priority transportation projects,
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Bicycle operation; City of Charlottesville to permit in both directions of traffic on one-way roads. [SB-1234]
One-way roadways and highways; bicycle operation. Allows the governing body of City of Charlottesville to permit the operation of bicycles in either direction of traffic on one-way roadways and highways.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
HOT lanes; when a vehicle crashes on certain interstates, driver must move to nearest pull-off area. [SB-1167]
Crashes on HOT lanes under construction on the Capital Beltway. Requires that when there is a vehicle crash on HOT lanes under construction on any portion of Interstate 95, 395, or 495 and the vehicles involved in the crash can be moved and there are no apparent bodily injuries, the drivers must move their vehicles to the nearest designated pull-off area.