The Virginia Department of Transportation, members of the Route 28 Corridor Improvements team and local officials broke ground today on the Route 28 and Nokes Boulevard interchange in Loudoun County.   It is the eighth of 10 interchanges that have been built or are underway as part of the Route 28 public-private partnership in Loudoun and Fairfax counties.

The $51.6 million design-build project will be completed in November 2009 and includes extending Pacific Boulevard for three-tenths of a mile to connect Severn Way with the interchange. The intersection at Route 28 and Nokes Boulevard will be converted to a three-loop interchange with a collector-distributor road on southbound Route 28.  A six-lane bridge will carry Nokes Boulevard over Route 28.  A detour will be constructed to relocate the existing intersection and traffic signal to the south so that the future interchange can be constructed. Grading is underway.

In preparation for construction, the project team worked with historians and archaeologists from the College of William and Mary on relocating 47 graves from the 200 year-old Kilgour/Hummer Burying Grounds located within the future interchange area.  The graves have been moved to Chestnut Grove Cemetery in Herndon and a monument will be erected at the former cemetery. 

Six interchanges have been designed and constructed under the agreement VDOT signed in 2002 with The Clark Construction Group Inc., Shirley Contracting Company LLC, and Dewberry.  In Loudoun County, interchanges have opened at Church/Waxpool Roads, Old Ox Road and Sterling Boulevard, and an interchange is under construction at Innovation Avenue. In Fairfax County, interchanges have opened at Air and Space Museum Parkway, McLearen Road and Westfield Boulevard.  Construction begins at Willard Road next week and at Frying Pan Road this fall.  

.A total of ten interchanges are being built as part of a $300 million design-build contract under Virginia's Public-Private Transportation Act, which allows private entities to propose innovative solutions for designing, building, financing and operating transportation improvements. 

             

The original 14-mile widening of Route 28, from Route 7 in Loudoun County to I-66 in Fairfax County, began in 1987 and was completed in 1991.  Route 28 was transformed form a two-lane road to a six-lane divided highway with interchanges at Routes 50, 7 and the Dulles Toll Road.

Funding for the Route 28 corridor is provided in a combination of public and private funds, with 75 percent of the corridor improvements supported by the Route 28 special tax district. State and County funds make up the remainder of the total cost of the project.

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