Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Northern Virginia highway construction district; CTB allocations. [HB-658]
CTB allocations to Northern Virginia highway construction district. Limits transit, rail, and public transportation allocations by the Commonwealth Transportation Board to the Northern Virginia highway construction district to no more than 25 percent of total allocations.
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Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; allocations. [HB-653]
Allocations by Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. Limits allocations by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority for transit, rail, and public transportation projects to no more than 25 percent of its total allocations.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway; designating as a portion of Va. Route 24 in Town of Rustburg. [HB-64]
Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway. Designates a portion of Virginia Route 24 in Rustburg the Stephen L. Thompson Memorial Highway.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highway systems; allocation of funds. [HB-626]
Allocation of funds among highways systems. Eliminates required allocations of up to $500 million per year for bridge reconstruction and rehabilitation, high priority projects, and smart roadway technology projects.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Red or red & white warning lights; VDOT vehicle allowed to use for certain service patrol functions. [HB-604]
Red or red and white warning lights. Allows Department of Transportation vehicles used for highway safety service patrol functions in responding to or on-scene at highway safety incidents to be equipped with flashing, blinking, or alternating red or red and white combination warning lights.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Richmond Metropolitan Authority; renamed, composition of Board of Directors. [HB-597]
Richmond Metropolitan Authority; name; composition of Board of Directors; powers. Renames the Authority as the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority and equalizes Board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henrico County. The bill requires that certain actions of the Authority related to construction or acquisition of limited access highways or acquisition of rights to operate existing toll roads receive approval from the local governing bodies and the Richmond Mayor. Local approval also is required for the
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highway drains and culverts; localities to prohibit interfering with or impeding storm water runoff. [HB-555]
Blocking highway drains and culverts. Allows localities by ordinance to prohibit interfering with or impeding storm water runoff into drains or culverts on VDOT-controlled highway rights-of-way.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Drainage ditch maintenance, etc.; use of revenue-sharing highway funds. [HB-528]
"Revenue-sharing" highway funds. Provides for use of so-called revenue-sharing highway funds for construction and maintenance of ditches and other drainage facilities and obtaining voluntary drainage easements or voluntary permission to enter private property.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Speed limits; prohibits driving at less than posted maximum speed in left-most lanes on Interstate. [HB-51]
Minimum speed limits. Prohibits driving at less than the posted maximum speed limit in the left-most lanes of Interstate Highways.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Specialized construction equipment; Commissioner of Highways may issue permits for operation. [HB-509]
Permits for operation of specialized construction equipment. Authorizes the Commissioner of Highways to issue permits for operation of specialized construction equipment on and across structures maintained by VDOT.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Littering; penalty. [HB-506]
Littering. Provides that a person charged with littering in an amount no more than 0.7 cubic feet may prepay a fine of $50 in lieu of appearance in court.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Golf carts and utility vehicles; Town of Clifton allows on their highways. [HB-488]
Golf carts and utility vehicles. Adds the Town of Clifton to the list of towns without their own police departments that may permit operation of golf carts and utility vehicles on their highways.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Roadways; solicitation of contributions. [HB-475]
Solicitation of contributions on roadways. Provides that any locality may by ordinance allow pedestrians over the age of 18 who are part of, or working on behalf of, a §501(c)(3) organization, to enter one or more roadways for the purpose of soliciting contributions that are devoted to charitable or community betterment purposes.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highways; periodic quantitative rating. [HB-427]
Periodic quantitative rating of highways. Requires that periodic quantitative ratings of primary or secondary highway segments by VDOT include any commonly-referred-to names of the segments and relevant zip codes.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Interstate 66; CTB to include in next update certain improvements inside Capital Beltway. [HB-426]
I-66 improvements. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to include in the next update of its Six-Year Improvement Program a project to add at least two non-high-occupancy vehicle lanes in each direction to I-66 inside the Capital Beltway.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Loudoun County; VDOT's duties & responsibilities to properly maintain the rural gravel road network. [HB-416]
Rural gravel road network in Loudoun County. Provides specific goals for VDOT's maintenance of the rural gravel road network in Loudoun County.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Truck cranes; permits authorizing operation over highways for those that exceed maximum weight. [HB-415]
Overweight permits for truck cranes. Allows the DMV Commissioner and cities and towns to authorize overweight permits for truck cranes.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Rail and Public Transportation, Department of; funding. [HB-396]
Funding of Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Codifies appropriation act language dealing with funding of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board; changes composition of membership. [HB-379]
Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts and three will be at-large appointees. The four ex officio members remain unchanged. The bill also replaces the term "metropolitan statistical areas" with "metropolitan planning areas with populations greater than 200,000."
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Billboard signs; adjustment or relocation. [HB-377]
Adjustment or relocation of billboard signs. Includes the erection of a sound barrier as an action that allows relocation of a billboard sign. The bill also allows a billboard to remain in its original location until the Commissioner of Highways or other condemnor gives notice to its owner that the sign must be removed.