Virginia

[WillWeaverRVA]

The Powhite Parkway Western Extension is also high priority. Just drive the existing route on 288 and 360 and you can see why.

I'm very, very familiar with that stretch. I'm honestly surprised I didn't rip all my hair out when that used to be part of my commute.

Back when US-360 was four lanes? Widening to six and eight lanes helped a lot, and the just completed two-lane widening on the ramp from VA-288 SB to US-360 WB is a huge improvement.

However, the Powhite Parkway Western Extension is very needed. I live on the Powhite Parkway axis, in Stratford Hills.

Nah, it was already six or eight lanes by the time I was having to use it. Peak hour traffic on that stretch is still nightmarish even with the various improvements that have been made, although the two-laning of the ramp from southbound VA 288 has helped immensely with traffic on that segment of VA 288.

[1995hoo]

Somewhat changing the subject—although not entirely, as the Powhite Parkway is a toll road—someone on another forum I visit posted a link to an article saying Virginia has the most expensive toll roads in the country on a per-mile basis, a stat the writer acknowledges is caused primarily by the HO/T lanes in Northern Virginia.

But there is one particular aspect of that article that left me somewhat bemused as soon as I saw it. Take a look at the linked article and see if you can spot what I thought was peculiar.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Somewhat changing the subject—although not entirely, as the Powhite Parkway is a toll road—someone on another forum I visit posted a link to an article saying Virginia has the most expensive toll roads in the country on a per-mile basis, a stat the writer acknowledges is caused primarily by the HO/T lanes in Northern Virginia.

But there is one particular aspect of that article that left me somewhat bemused as soon as I saw it. Take a look at the linked article and see if you can spot what I thought was peculiar.

The fact that the picture is in Maryland and not Virginia?

[1995hoo]

Somewhat changing the subject—although not entirely, as the Powhite Parkway is a toll road—someone on another forum I visit posted a link to an article saying Virginia has the most expensive toll roads in the country on a per-mile basis, a stat the writer acknowledges is caused primarily by the HO/T lanes in Northern Virginia.

But there is one particular aspect of that article that left me somewhat bemused as soon as I saw it. Take a look at the linked article and see if you can spot what I thought was peculiar.

The fact that the picture is in Maryland and not Virginia?

Exactly. I doubt anyone else on the other forum picked up on that until I pointed it out, but I found it rather strange that someone would use a picture of another state's highway to illustrate an article about Virginia.