![]() “The harder work starts which is, ‘OK, why is this happening?’ And then what can we do to seek to address this?” Donohue said. The information, combined with traffic data confirming the heavy rush-hour traffic that builds from the Fredericksburg area up through the Springfield interchange, is meant to help identify the areas where solutions are most desperately needed. “There are many, many more problems on the 95 corridor than there are resources to try to address them, even when we’re focusing on just the top 25% of areas,” Virginia Deputy Transportation Secretary Nick Donohue said. While the meetings are preliminary, state transportation officials have identified the locations with the most consistent delays, most frequent crashes, and most frequent lane closures due to crashes or other incidents. The I-95 Corridor Improvement Plan meetings offering an opportunity to highlight other problems that need to be addressed are scheduled Thursday night at South County Middle School in Lorton and next Tuesday at James Monroe High School in Fredericksburg. ![]() In the big picture, southbound travel is generally significantly worse than northbound, but changes like the military’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) plan have added to “reverse commute” issues near places such as Fort Belvoir. Weekends are frequently as bad as weekdays, with little assurance of how long a trip might take. Overall, at least 70% of delays are consistent and recurring, state data show, rather than due to crashes. The miles leading up to that are only slightly better, regularly slowed to around 30 mph. Initial analysis ahead of public meetings this week to identify the Virginia trouble spots shows people spend more than 1.2 million hours a year in delays in just the 1-mile southbound stretch over the Occoquan River. (WTOP/Dave Dildine)The traffic jams over the Occoquan are so much worse than on any other part of Interstate 95 in Virginia that they throw off the scale of a review of potential traffic improvements for I-95 from North Carolina to the Potomac River. This is one of the region's most notorious bottlenecks. As four through lanes from Fairfax County turn to three south of the Occoquan River in Prince William County, drivers in the slow lanes must merge right and are often reluctant to yield to ramp traffic. ![]() The merge is coincident with a lane-drop on the southbound mainline highway. 123 North, commuters are provided a mere 100 feet before their acceleration lane tapers into I-95 South. Business & Finance Click to expand menu. ![]()
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