Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
U.S. Route 29; designating from Va.-North Carolina line to north of Town of Altavista as I-785. [HB-2481]
Designating a portion of U.S. Route 29 as Interstate 785. Designates U.S. Route 29 from the Virginia-North Carolina line to north of the Town of Altavista as Interstate 785. The bill provides that such designation shall not take effect until the Virginia Department of Transportation consults with the Federal Highway Administration to identify any steps that need to be taken along the designated route to meet federal interstate standards, and VDOT shall report to the Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability the steps that need to be taken
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Wilderness Road; designating certain highway segments as Virginia byways. [HB-2475]
The Wilderness Road. Designates the highway segments composing the Wilderness Road as Virginia byways.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Utility facilities; relocation or removal shall not be placed any closer to private residence. [HB-2469]
Relocation or removal of utility facilities. Provides that when the Commonwealth Transportation Board acquires property by eminent domain, the relocated utility facilities shall not be placed any closer to a private residence than those facilities were before the relocation, or 100 feet, whichever is closer.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Gate City, Town of; Transportation Board to allow provision of access roads. [HB-245]
Gate City Bypass. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allow the Town of Gate City to provide access roads connecting U.S. Route 23 (southbound) with the north side of Clinch Mountain.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Golf cart and utility vehicle; fixes a punctuation error to clarify exceptions for use on highways. [HB-2429]
Golf cart and utility vehicle use on highways. Fixes a punctuation error to clarify exceptions for use of golf carts and utility vehicles.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Oversize and overweight permits; Transportation Board has authority to limit control on highways. [HB-2403]
Authority to use certain streets and highways; oversize and overweight permits. Provides that the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Commonwealth Transportation Board, will have the authority to limit control for oversize and overweight permitting purposes for certain roads to the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles. The bill sets out considerations when determining routes to be controlled for permitting purposes.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Discontinued secondary system highways; shall be available for use by public as a road. [HB-2379]
Discontinued secondary system highways. Provides that when a secondary system highway is discontinued, the highway shall continue to be available for use by the public as a road, unless it has been abandoned or its use has been modified by an ordinance.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Allocation of highway maintenance & construction funds; alters manner Transportation Bd. allocates. [HB-2331]
Allocation of highway maintenance and construction funds. Alters the manner in which the Commonwealth Transportation Board allocates highway maintenance and construction funds from the Transportation Trust Fund and the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Handheld personal communications devices; fines for texting while driving doubled in work zones. [HB-2307]
Texting while driving; highway work zones. Provides that the fines imposed for texting while driving shall be doubled if the offense is committed within a highway work zone.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Repair of potholes on private property; localities to require on certain parking areas and roads. [HB-2247]
Repair of potholes on private property. Allows localities to require repair of potholes on certain private parking areas and roads. If the property owner does not make such repair, the locality may, after reasonable notice, make the repair, and the expense thereof shall be chargeable to the owner.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District; created. [HB-2238]
Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District. Creates the Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District to provide a means of financing an extension of commuter rail service from Fairfax County into Prince William County.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation agency efficiencies & cost recoveries; exempts VDOT, etc., paying remote access fee. [HB-2233]
Transportation agency efficiencies and cost recoveries. Exempts the Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) from paying any fee for remote access to land records; provides for VDOT to recommend to the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) an annual rate to be used by VDOT to make payments for maintenance; deletes references to the statewide maintenance cost index, the base lane per mile rate, and fund allocation; and adds language indicating that total payments are not to exceed CTB allocations.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation funding and administration; funding in Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, etc. [HB-2222]
Transportation funding and administration. Provides for transportation funding and administration in Northern Virginia, Hampton Roads, the Richmond Highway Construction District, the Staunton Highway Construction District, and the Salem Highway Construction District. The amount of funding is based on (i) for Northern Virginia, a portion of the growth in certain state tax revenues in Northern Virginia; (ii) for Hampton Roads, a portion of the growth in certain state tax revenues generated or facilitated by the marine terminals in Hampton Roads; (iii)
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Allocation of revenue-sharing funds; removes priority structure to localities. [HB-2203]
Allocation of revenue-sharing funds. Removes the priority structure for allocation of revenue-sharing funds to localities. This bill was incorporated into
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Railroad tracks; funding for construction of industrial access. [HB-2164]
Funding for construction of industrial access railroad tracks. Changes the limit on allocation of funds for construction of industrial access railroad tracks that any county, city, or town receives in any one fiscal year from not more than 25 percent to not more than 50 percent of the funds.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Wetland mitigation banks; removes references to an outdated map used to identify. [HB-2126]
Location of wetland mitigation banks. Removes the references to an outdated map used to identify mitigation banks and instead uses the more readily identifiable hydrologic unit boundaries of the National Watershed Boundary Dataset.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Patriot Crossing; VDOT to review unsolicited proposal to add capacity to Intermodal Connector I-664. [HB-2120]
Intermodal Connector of I-664 (Patriots Crossing); unsolicited proposals. Directs the Virginia Department of Transportation to accept for review unsolicited proposals to add capacity to the Intermodal Connector of I-664 (Patriots Crossing). This bill was incorporated into
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
The Road to Revolution; adds Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County to this heritage trail. [HB-2116]
The Road to Revolution. Adds Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County to this heritage trail of sites significant to Patrick Henry. This bill is the same as
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Inmate labor; authorizes use thereof at rest areas along Interstate Highway System. [HB-2040]
Corrections; use of inmate labor. Authorizes the use of inmate labor at rest areas along the Interstate Highway System.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Noise abatement practices; use of noise reducing design and pavement materials for highway projects. [HB-2025]
Noise abatement practices and technologies. Provides that first consideration should be given to the use of noise reducing design and low noise pavement materials for highway projects that require mitigation of traffic noise. The bill also clarifies use of vegetative screening when visual screening is required.