Transportation

The $480 million project will expand the highway from two to three lanes in both directions.

Richmond has a bus rapid transit system known as the Pulse, and city leaders are considering expanding it. Similar systems are also currently under consideration in Fairfax County and in Arlington and in Alexandria.

Virginia has had a bus line from Blacksburg to D.C. since 2017; providing service along I-81 to places like Lexington, Staunton and Harrisonburg.

An early Monday-morning passenger train’s departure from Richmond to Washington, DC marked the restoration of Amtrak service to the same level as before the pandemic.

A new report shows disturbing trends in traffic fatalities in 2020, despite less driving. A Virginia Tech professor says the pandemic brought the perfect…

Thanks to substantial federal aid, the nation’s airports were able to stay open through the worst of the pandemic and are now predicting improvements in…

The pandemic hit some sectors of the economy much harder than others. Restaurants and bars, for example, were shut down in many places, but all over the…

Railroads once dominated transportation in Virginia until the invention of the automobile. Now, rail is making a comeback.Amtrak service in Virginia is…

Nearly half of Virginia’s carbon emissions come from transportation. The House of Delegates took on a number of bills hoping to reduce those emissions,…

Estimating the cost of major transit projects can be difficult. And a new federal report points to Virginia as an example of how cost estimates can be…