Board Approves Six-Year Secondary Road Plan

Nov. 29, 2005

The Hanover Board of Supervisors on Nov. 22 adopted a six-year plan for secondary road construction. The adopted plan includes four new projects:

• Widen Pole Green Road to four lanes between Bell Creek Road and Verdi Lane. The adopted plan calls for funding to begin on this project in Fiscal Year 2010-11. A total of $8.4 million will be needed for this project.
• Add turn lanes to the intersection of Creighton Road and Cold Harbor Road. The adopted plan calls for funding to begin on this project in FY 2011-12. A total of $4.8 million will be needed for this project.
• Improve Union Church Road in the Beaverdam District to hard surface. The tentative schedule calls for this project to be completed in 2012.
• Improve the Tyler Station Road rail crossing in Beaverdam District. This project includes upgrading the flashing lights, installing gates and replacing the surface crossing. The tentative schedule calls for this project to be completed in year 2012.

These projects could be added to the existing plan because of about $2 million available for new projects from the Virginia Department of Transportation over the next six years. Hanover County is slated to receive about $17.68 million for secondary road improvements over the next six years. Including funding from prior years, about 68% of funding is designated for projects in the County’s suburban area and about 32% for projects in the rural area.

Other construction priorities in the County’s adopted six-year secondary road plan include these projects to be advertised in the next year:

• Reconstruction of Atlee Station Road between Honey Meadows Road and U.S. Rt. 301. This project is scheduled to be advertised for construction in Dec. 2005.
• Widening of Pole Green Road from AMF Drive at the I-295 interchange to Bell Creek Road. This project is scheduled to be advertised for construction in Sept. 2006.

Other projects with less definite schedules are:

• Re-alignment of the Sliding Hill/New Ashcake Road intersection, including left and right turn lanes and signals.  This project is scheduled to be advertised for construction in March 2007, but that could be pushed back.
• Meadowbridge Road widening and replacement of the bridge over the Chickahominy River at the Henrico County line. No advertisement date has been scheduled for this project.
• Adding turn lanes and modifying traffic signals at the intersection of Lee Davis Road, Cold Harbor Road and Walnut Grove Road. This project is scheduled to be advertised in Feb. 2007, but that could be pushed back.

Several Hanover County road sections are scheduled to be improved with 2-3 foot paved shoulders referred to as ‘shoulder wedges’ in the adopted six-year plan. They are:

• Sliding Hill Road between Atlee Station Road and New Ashcake Road. This project is scheduled to be advertised in the spring of 2006.
• Atlee Station Road between Kings Charter Drive and Honey Meadows Road. This project is scheduled to be advertised in the spring of 2006. Shoulder wedges are also going to be added along Atlee Station Road between Charter Gate Drive and Kings Charter Drive, advertisement date spring 2008.
• Creighton Road from the I-295 interchange to Cold Harbor Road. This project is scheduled to be advertised in the spring of 2007. The section of Creighton Road between Cold Harbor Road and Walnut Grove Road is also scheduled to be shoulder wedged, advertisement date Spring 2008.
• Pole Green Road between Pine Hill Road and Rt. 360. This project is scheduled to be advertised in the spring of 2006.
• Lee Davis Road between Rt. 360 and Cold Harbor Road. This project is scheduled to be advertised in the spring of 2007.  The section of Lee Davis Road between Rt. 360 and Pole Green Road is scheduled to be advertised in the spring of 2008.

Other secondary road construction projects in the adopted six-year plan but without advertisement dates are:

• Improvements to the intersection of Sliding Hill Road and Air Park Road, including turning lanes and a traffic signal.
• Spring Road bridge replacement and approaches.
• Reconstructing a short section of Courtland Farm Road.
• Georgetown Road bridge replacement.
• Installing double left and right turn lanes on Atlee Road at the intersection with Rt. 301.

Roads to be strengthened with “plant mix” in the spring of 2006 include portions of Ashcake Road, Verdon Road and Brooking Way in the suburban area and portions of Country Club Court, Georgetown Road, Winns Church Road, Bourne Road, River Road, Studley Road, Fairway Lane, Riverside Circle, Riverside Court, St. Andrews Lane, Pinehurst Lane and Augusta Lane.

Roads to be strengthened with “plant mix” in the spring of 2007 include portions of Dogwood Trail Road, Old Church Road, Old Ridge Road and Boundary Run Drive in the rural area and Deer Creek Road in the suburban area.

“Plant mix” smoothes out roads and makes them safer. The adopted road plan includes $2.4 million for plant mix over the next six years.

The six-year plan includes railroad crossing improvements at Doswell Road, Beaverdam Road and Tyler Station Road.

Unpaved roads scheduled to be paved “in place” include Binns Road, Hartley Road, Askew Lane and Tower Road. Other paving projects in the six-year plan are River Road between Rt. Hanover Town Road and Rt. 360 (a “Rural Rustic” project) and portions of Verdi Lane, Dunn Road and Union Church Road.