Above, I'm standing on the Wilton Road overpass bridge, looking west onto Route 895. Paving work is near completion on this section, with lines painted on the eastbound roadway. Highway sign installation is underway. I am standing directly over the two westbound mainline freeway lanes. The James River Bridge construction is visible in the distance. The toll plazas are visible under construction to the right. Installation of toll collection equipment is underway, with vehicle testing of the electronic toll collection (ETC) system. The highway mainline has three lanes in each direction on this section, and the outer lane each way branches from the mainline into the manual and automatic cash toll plazas. The center and inner lanes each way continue as full freeway-standard mainline roadways, and an overhead gantry has the detection equipment for electronic toll collection, and these two lanes each way are to be used only by Smart Tag customers. So Smart Tag customers have a bonifide freeway roadway where they can maintain the full posted speed limit on the highway. I took this photo with a telephoto lens (135 mm or 2.7x) with a 2x teleconverter, effectively providing 270 mm or 5.4x.

Above, I'm standing on the Wilton Road overpass bridge, looking west onto Route 895. This photo was taken from a similar vantage point as the previous photo, taken a few minutes later, but over the eastbound Route 895 roadway. I took this photo with a telephoto lens (135 mm or 2.7x) with a 2x teleconverter, effectively providing 270 mm or 5.4x.

Above, I'm standing on the Osborne Turnpike overpass bridge, looking east onto Route 895. Paving work is near completion on this section, with lines painted on the eastbound roadway. Highway sign installation is near completion. Guard rail is being installed. The off-ramp in the distance is for the Laburnum Avenue Connection.

Above, I'm standing on the VA-5 New Market Road overpass, looking west onto Route 895. The two mainline bridges cross over Cornelius Creek, and the westbound bridge has a spur bridge branching off to Ramp A, the westbound off-ramp to the Laburnum Avenue Connection. Highway sign installation is underway. This photo was taken in the same session as the previous photo, about 30 minutes later. I took this photo with a telephoto lens (135 mm or 2.7x) with a 2x teleconverter, effectively providing 270 mm or 5.4x. The intent was to show a detailed photo of the directional route signing on the highway for westbound traffic. As you can see, Route 895 is being signed with the Virginia primary route shield. The left overhead directional sign says "WEST 895 to 95 150 - Richmond".

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By Scott M. Kozel, Roads to the Future