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VDOT updates: bridge repairs, smart‑scale projects and truck‑routing concerns in Caroline County
Summary
VDOT staff reported multiple projects — a completed Route 638 bridge, turn-lane and bridge rehabs, and smart-scale grants — and supervisors pressed for follow-up on resurfacing, mowing, truck wayfinding and speed studies in residential areas.
Virginia Department of Transportation residency staff presented a multi-topic update to the Caroline County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, listing recent completions and the status of several planned projects while answering supervisors’ questions about speed limits, mowing and truck routing.
VDOT’s assistant residency engineer, Giovanni Esposito, and residency representative Kyle Bates reviewed completed and ongoing work that included the Route 638 South River bridge replacement (opened July 22), a turn-lane project on Route 676 completed before July 4, and an active superstructure and substructure rehabilitation project over the Mattaponi River that began July 28.
Bates said two projects awarded in the 2024 Smart Scale round will move into design in 2027: intersection improvements at Route 1 and Page and Marie Road (a $7…
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