VDOT Staunton district weeklong traffic alerts
The Staunton district lists area highway work from September 9 to 13 affecting Alleghany Bath Rockbridge Highland Augusta Rockingham Page Shenandoah Frederick Clarke and Warren counties. Projects include I 66 I 81 routes 55 340 522 604 614 658 with shoulder and ramp closures and flagger controls through late September and December 2025 in places.
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Staunton
Staunton District
Alleghany Highlands
Shenandoah Valley
Alleghany
Bath
Rockbridge
Highland
Augusta
Rockingham
Page
Shenandoah
Frederick, Clarke
Warren
Warren County
John Marshall
Pleasant Vale Road
Winchester Road
Harmony Hollow Road
Remount Road
Harmony Orchard Road
Hunt Road
Strasburg Road
Totten Lane
Rockland Road
Fishnet Boulevard
Norfolk Southern Railway
Distracted driving framed as public health crisis in Virginia
Safety experts in Richmond call distracted mobility a public health issue at Drive Smart Virginia’s 11th Annual Distracted Driving Summit. Virginia DMV Commissioner Lackey cites an epidemic of distraction. 2028 saw 61 fatalities and 7,200 injuries from 21,528 crashes. Virginia State Police touts Operation DISS-rupt aiming for zero deaths on I-81 and 10 percent crash reduction on interstates.
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Richmond
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Gerald F. Lackey
Drive Smart
Virginia
Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co
Rick Birt
Washington, D.C
Highway Safety Office
Birt
Lackey
University of Utah
U.S
Col
Gary T. Settle
Interstate 81
Virginia pushes ahead with first US small modular reactor plan
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Dominion Energy move toward the nation’s first commercial small modular reactor. The RFP and Senate Bill 454 aim to test, deploy, and integrate zero emission SMRs into the grid, with Virginia firms and universities positioned as leaders in the new technology.
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Richmond
Virginia
Glenn Youngkin
Commonwealth
Dominion Energy
America
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Hampton Roads
BWXT
Framatome
Lynchburg
Virginia Tech
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
University of Virginia
Dominion
Youngkin
Glenn Davis
Virginia Department of Energy
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