12-1-2004: Added 6 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in October 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - October 2004" - new article which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section". The main article above has 5 photos taken on the opening day of November 19, 2004, where the last Route 288 section was opened between Lucks Lane and US-60 Midlothian Turnpike.
Added 15 new photos that were taken were taken from an early September drive of the new Route 288 section that opened to traffic on August 27th, the 6.7 mile segment of Route 288 between US-60 Midlothian Turnpike and VA-6 Patterson Avenue, including the twin-span James River bridge, showing views of the completed highway. These photos are located in the second half of the following article, after the 6 photos in the article that were added on November 1st.
"Route VA-288 Construction - September 2004" - existing article which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section". 
11-16-2004: Updates to article "Chesapeake Bay Bridge Rehabilitation Projects", to reflect current information about the westbound bridge deck renovation project, and a link to the MdTA project website, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes. This article is linked from my article Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
11-1-2004: Added 6 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in September 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - September 2004" - new article which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section".
Added 21 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway near Richmond, Virginia, taken in August 2004. Includes photos taken the day after the August 27th opening of the section of Route 288 between US-60 Midlothian Turnpike and VA-6 Patterson Avenue. These photos are located in the second half of the following article, after the 23 photos in the article that were added on October 1st.
"Route VA-288 Construction - August 2004" - existing article which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section". 
11-1-2004: Updates to article "Hampton Roads Crossing Study" - added information about the public-private proposal submitted in October 2004, to build the Third Hampton Roads Crossing, a proposal submitted by Fluor Virginia, Inc., pursuant to Virginia's Public-Private Transportation Act. Added cost information about the Skanska PPTA proposal which was submitted in June 2004.
11-1-2004: Updates to article "Parallel Midtown Tunnel / Pinners Point Interchange / Martin Luther King Freeway Extension", with updates about the Pinners Point Interchange Project which is under construction, with information about the opening to traffic of the first segment of the project on September 19, 2004, and with 8 photos of the project taken after the opening.
10-1-2004: Added 23 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in August 2004. Includes photos of the renaming ceremony where the highway and its James River bridge were named for the World War II veterans.
"Route VA-288 Construction - August 2004" - new article which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section".
9-12-2004: Modified tunnel references on these articles:
 "Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel", "Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (I-664)".
9-1-2004: Added 37 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in July 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - July 2004" - new article with the 37 photos, which is accessed by hyperlink from
"Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section". Updated the latter article with details of the August 13th dedication ceremony for the highway, and the naming of the highway and James River bridge after the World War II veterans, including 3 photos of the ceremony; and with details of the August 27th opening of Route 288 between US-60 Midlothian Turnpike to VA-6 Patterson Avenue, which includes the Route 288 James River bridge.
8-1-2004: Added 17 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in June 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - June 2004" - which is accessed by hyperlink from
"Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section".
7-11-2004: Updates to article "Hampton Roads Crossing Study" - added information  about the public-private proposal submitted in July 2004, to build the Third Hampton Roads Crossing, a proposal submitted by Skanska/Washington/BAM (SWB), pursuant to Virginia's Public-Private Transportation Act. I added my opinion about the funding of the Third Hampton Roads Crossing project, and the tolling of all 4 Hampton Roads crossings.
7-3-2004:  Updates to article "Arterial Highway System in Virginia". Minor cosmetic updates; major updates will come in the near future.
7-2-2004: Updates to article "Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel". Added information about the June 1, 2004 toll increase, a table of the 8 different Class 1 toll rates in the history of the CBBT, news article links about the April 2004 40-year anniversary of the CBBT, more information and a couple article links about the proposed Parallel Tunnel Project, link to 2002 JLARC report about the CBBT, and updated several links.
7-2-2004: Updates to article "Widening of Interstate 81 in Virginia", with added links about the VDRPT rail diversion study, and fixing of obsolete links.
7-1-2004: Added 44 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in May 2004, which includes 9 photos of the Route 288 section that fully opened to traffic on May 1st, between VA-6 and US-250.
"Route VA-288 Construction - May 2004" - new article with the 44 photos, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section". Updated the latter article with details and a map of the West Creek Business Park in Goochland County, and with details and an alternates map from the 1988 VDOT location study that led to the westward shift of the proposed location of the western section of Route 288.
6-21-2004: Added backgrounds and meta name descriptions to these website articles: "Washington D.C. Interstates and Freeways", "D.C. Area Interstates, Freeways and Parkways", "D.C. Interstate System", "Cumberland Gap Tunnel", and "New Jersey Median Barrier History".
6-20-2004: Added backgrounds and meta name descriptions to these website articles: "Capital Beltway (I-495 and I-95)", "14th Street Bridge Complex (I-395 and US-1)", "Interstate 595 in Maryland (US-50 from I-95/I-495 to Annapolis)", and "Washington Outer Beltway".
6-15-2004: Added backgrounds to these website articles: "Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (I-664)", "Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel - Aerial Photos", and "Interstate 664 History". Added photo of the interior of the tunnel to article "Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (I-664)".
6-5-2004: Added backgrounds and meta name descriptions to these website articles: "Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel", "James River Bridge (US-17)", "George P. Coleman Bridge", and "Bridge-Tunnel Facilities in Virginia".
6-1-2004: Updates to article "Springfield Interchange Project", with information about the May 19th opening of the I-95 southbound flyover ramp, which connects the Beltway Inner Loop to I-95 south.
New article "Springfield Interchange Project - Photos", linked from above article, with 8 aerial photos of the project that were taken in February 2004, and 8 aerial photos of the project that were taken in November 2002.
6-1-2004: Updates to article "Parallel Midtown Tunnel / Port Norfolk Connector / Martin Luther King Freeway Extension", with updates about the Pinners Point Interchange Project which is under construction, plus 5 more photos of the construction; a photo of the VA-164 Western Freeway; a lot of information about the proposed MLK Freeway Extension project, including a layout of the proposed project; and my opinion about the funding of the two portions of this complex that are not yet funded, the MLK Freeway Extension project and the Parallel Midtown Tunnel project.
6-1-2004: Added 8 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in April 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - April 2004" - new article with the 8 photos, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section".
6-1-2004: Updated these articles - "DE Route 1 - Korean War Veterans Highway", "DE Route 1 - Section Details", "C & D Canal Bridges", and "Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C & D Canal)". While I have links to these articles from Roads to the Future, they reside on my PENNWAYS website, and for the details and links, see my article "Website Change Log - PENNWAYS".
5-2-2004: Added 18 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in March, 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - March 2004" - new article with the 18 photos, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section". Updated the latter article with details about the May 2nd completion of the Route 288 section between VA-6 Patterson Avenue and US-250 in Goochland County.
5-1-2004: New article "Woodrow Wilson Bridge Construction - February 2004", with 7 aerial photos Woodrow Wilson Bridge (WWB) Project construction, including the new Potomac River Bridge under construction, and the Virginia Approach construction. This article is linked from "Woodrow Wilson Bridge (I-495 and I-95)" and "Woodrow Wilson Bridge - Construction", and one of the aerial photos is on first article.
5-1-2004: Updates to article "Parallel Midtown Tunnel / Port Norfolk Connector / Martin Luther King Freeway Extension", with major updates about the Pinners Point Interchange Project which is under construction, and updates about the proposed Parallel Midtown Tunnel project, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
New article "Pinners Point Interchange Construction - February 2004", linked from above article, with 32 aerial photos of the Pinners Point Interchange Project.
4-27-2004: Updates to article "Chesapeake Bay Bridge Walk", with news about the 2004 Bay Bridge Walk. This article is linked from my article Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
4-2-2004: Added 6 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in February, 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - February 2004" - new article, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section", which is accessed by hyperlink from "Richmond Beltway (I-295 and VA-288)".
4-2-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 66 and Metrorail Vienna Route" - These two transportation facilities form an integrated multi-modal transportation corridor in Fairfax and Arlington Counties in Virginia. I added map of area around I-66, fixed obsolete links, and fixed table display for Netscape 7.1.
4-2-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 77 Virginia - Photos", which has 2 ground-level photos of Little Walker Mountain I-77 construction, a photo of the completed I-77 Big Walker Mountain Tunnel, and 2 photos of the completed I-77 in the Fancy Gap area. I improved all the photos with Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
Updates to article "Interstate 77 Virginia - Aerial Photos" - This article has two aerial photos of Virginia I-77 under construction in mountainous terrain, including the section at Fancy Gap, and a map showing I-77 from the North Carolina border to I-81 at Fort Chiswell, Virginia. This article is linked from the article "Interstate 77 Virginia - Photos". I made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
4-2-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 77 Fancy Gap Photos" - I-77 makes a six-mile hill-climb of over 1,500 feet, commencing one mile north of the North Carolina border, with a third northbound truck-climbing lane. The top of the climb on I-77 is a summit called Fancy Gap, and is over 3,100 feet elevation. The northern 6 miles of this section traverses heavily mountainous terrain, and involved over 18 million cubic yards of excavation, making it one of the largest excavation projects in the history of the Interstate system. I have 15 photos, taken along I-77 in 2001, and the sequence is 5 photos southbound starting just beyond the summit, and then 10 photos northbound starting just beyond the start of the hill-climb. The modification involved taking the previous format of 3 webpages each with 5 full-size photos, and converting it to one webpage with 15 thumbnail photos with each linking to a large photo. The link above is to a webpage with 15 thumbnail photos with each linking to a large photo, ideal for dialup users since the total size of the webpage and its thumbnail images is only 79 kilobytes; and about halfway down that webpage just before the photos there is a link to "fullpage" version of that webpage that has all 15 large photos on the webpage itself, but the "fullpage" version has a total size of webpage and images of 1.44 megabytes, suitable for broadband users since it will all load to your browser fairly quickly if you have a broadband Internet connection, but will load slow indeed on a dialup Internet connection. This article is linked from the article "Interstate 77 Virginia - Photos".
4-2-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 77 New River Bridge" - I-77 in Virginia crosses over the New River and US-52 on twin high-level bridges, in Wythe County, 5 miles south of I-81. I have information about the bridges, along with three 10-5-2001 photos of the bridge that I took. I added details about the project under construction to rehabilitate the bridges, and I improved all the photos with Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
Updates to article "Interstate 77 New River Bridge Construction", which is accessed by hyperlink from "Interstate 77 New River Bridge". There are 5 photos of the bridge under construction in 1977 and 1978. I made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
3-6-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 81 and Interstate 77". I separated the I-81 widening material from the "Interstate 81 and Interstate 77" article and put it into a new website article "Widening of Interstate 81 in Virginia". The second article is linked from the first article, and is linked from the main page also. I added this information to the second article -- a link to VDOT news release, "VDOT Commissioner Reaches Decision on I-81 PPTA Proposals", March 5, 2004, and a link to "VDOT's Application to Toll Interstate 81 Under Section 1216(b) of TEA-21", March 20, 2003.
3-1-2004: Added 7 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in January, 2004.
"Route VA-288 Construction - January 2004" - new article, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section", which is accessed by hyperlink from "Richmond Beltway (I-295 and VA-288)". The detailed information about the construction of the western portion of Route 288, along with the links to the monthly construction updates, has now been separated from "Richmond Beltway (I-295 and VA-288)" onto a separate new website article, "Route VA-288 Construction - Western Section".
3-1-2004: Updates to article "National Freeway (I-68)". I-68 is the 116-mile-long freeway between I-79 at Morgantown, West Virginia, and I-70 at Hancock, Maryland, and it is Appalachian Corridor "E". I added lots of new information about the planning, design and construction of the corridor, and especially about the last sections built, the 19-mile Cumberland-Green Ridge MD section and the 8-mile-long section in the Sideling Hill MD area. I added 4 maps of the projects, 13 photos of the completed highway, 6 photos of construction of the Sideling Hill Cut, a dozen external links, and I made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
3-1-2004: Updates to article "Virginia Freeway HOV Lanes". Virginia has 113 miles of freeway HOV lanes, with 73 miles in Northern Virginia, and 40 miles in the Norfolk/Hampton Roads area. High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes are highway lanes that are restricted to vehicles with a certain number of persons. I updated the information, added new information, updated external links, added new external links, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
3-1-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 295 in Virginia" - revised to reflect the 2002 completion of the Route 895 interchange, and to reflect the upgrade project planned for the western I-295/I-64 interchange.
2-17-2004: Updates to article "Interstate 81 and Interstate 77". Added material and links to VDOT news release, "VDOT Signs Consultant for I-81 Environmental Review", December 18, 2003; the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation news release, "State Releases Interstate 81 Rail Diversion Study", December 18, 2003; and the VDOT news release, "VDOT Sets Public Meetings on I-81 Corridor Study", January 28, 2004. On February 13, 2004, the I-81 PPTA Advisory Panel recommended to the VDOT Commissioner (agency head) that he enter into negotiations with STAR Solutions for a comprehensive agreement on their proposal. I added material from the VDOT news release, "Advisory Panel Reaches Recommendation on I-81 PPTA Proposals", February 13, 2004; the Roanoke Times article "Panel gives Star's plans green light for 1-81", February 14, 2004; and the Richmond Times-Dispatch article "Panel wants all drivers to pay", February 14, 2004.
2-12-2004: Updates to article "US-29 Charlottesville Bypass" - added information about the fact that VDOT has acquired 100% of the right-of-way needed for the project, and the fact that the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) required by the U.S. District Court decision, was completed and approved by FHWA.
2-11-2004: Updates to article "Woodrow Wilson Bridge (I-495 and I-95)", with information added to the "Woodrow Wilson Bridge Ownership" section, with more details about which states and agencies are responsible for the existing WWB, and details about how the existing and new bridge pass through the corner of D.C.'s portion of the Potomac River. Updated the "Woodrow Wilson Bridge - Construction" article with details about the contract award and Notice to Proceed on U.S. Route 1 Interchange Contract 6/7.
2-1-2004: Added 5 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in December, 2003.
"Route VA-288 Construction - December 2003" - new article, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Richmond Beltway (I-295 and VA-288)".
2-1-2004: Updates to article "Coalfields Expressway". Updated information, added links and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
2-1-2004: Updates to article "The Smart Road", about the ITS Blacksburg-Roanoke Connector. Updated information, added links and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
2-1-2004: Updates to article "US-33 Stanardsville Bypass and Projects in Greene County". Added map image of the recent bypass project, improved the 4 photos of the highway, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes. Includes link to my article "US-33 Stanardsville Bypass and Projects in Greene County - Photos".
1-4-2004: Updates to article "Springfield Interchange Project" - I added information about the contract for Phases 6 & 7, and the award of the contract. I also posted a January 2004 "status report" on Phase 4 and Phase 5, and on what is scheduled for the rest of the project.
1-1-2004: Added 18 new photos of Route VA-288 beltway construction near Richmond, Virginia, taken in November, 2003.
"Route VA-288 Construction - November 2003" - new article, which is accessed by hyperlink from "Richmond Beltway (I-295 and VA-288)".
1-1-2004: Updates to article "Blue Ridge Parkway / Skyline Drive" article - updated old links, added some links, and made keyword, cosmetic and 'new format' changes.
1-1-2004: New article "Road Trip to Florida". This article has 29 photos that I took on a 1991 trip, with a wide assortment of mostly highway and bridge photos from Savannah, Georgia, to South Florida, including the areas of Jacksonville, Cape Canaveral, Melbourne, Sebastion, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, the Everglades, and Lake Okeechobee, with a variety of commentary and external links interspersed.

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