City Officials: Route 28 Project is 20 Years in the Making
State transportation and Manassas city officials cut a ceremonial ribbon at the Route 28 overpass Thursday morning. All four lanes of traffic over the new overpass opened in mid-October.
The City of Manassas and Virginia Department of Transportation officials cut a ceremonial ribbon on the completion of the Route 28 Grade Separation Project, Thursday morning. All four lanes of traffic over the new Route 28 overpass opened in mid-October and has significantly improved traffic flow, reduced congestion, improved emergency vehicle access and eliminated rail/vehicle interaction on Route 28, Manassas city officials said. The Route 28 project has been long-term, beginning in 1992 with a request to VDOT from the City of Manassas for a feasibility study to review relocating or upgrading the rail crossing on Route 28. In 1995, VDOT and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (VDRPT) conducted a Railroad …
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Bobby Tommy
10:17 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012
Horse crap. The project is nothing more than pork barrel crap. Manassas is the largest truck stop in Virginia. It has no redeeming value to the State of Virginia. The idea that a town or city that dumps thru traffic into a so-called "Old Town" is pure nonsense. No European country would allow such crap. Manassas is a stronghold of redneck morons who know nothing about city management, culture, or… more ›