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New bridge would carry drivers over Haymarket train tracks

If you could drive over train tracks on Route 15 in Haymarket rather, would that improve your commute?

Prince William County will request $45 million in state transportation funding to build a bridge that will carry vehicles on Route 15 over train tracks near the interseciton of Route 55 in Haymarket. Today, traffic backs up here during the morning and evening rush hours.

The four-lane bridge would be located near a stretch of Route 15 recently widened from two to four lanes, in front of the Villages at Piedmont neighborhood. County officials late last month celebrated the completion of the widening project, which was funded and constructed by the home developer — not the county or state. This highly traveled stretch of road links Routes 29 and 55.

The bridge would also be built next to a new diverging diamond interchange that will carry cars on Route 15 over Interstate 66. When completed next year the DDI will be unlike anything in the region.

Prince William County transportation planners wanted to widen the entire stretch of Route 15 between Routes 55 and 29. The county’s comprehensive plan calls for widening this stretch of road and adding a four-lane bridge. But the project proved to be too costly in the near term, said Marty Nohe, who serves on the county’s Board of Supervisors and is Chairman of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.

“It’s a very expensive project, and it did not score as well as a lot of other projects of the same magnitude,” said Nohe.

It’s the Authority’s job to award state transportation dollars to projects that reduce the largest amount of congestion relative to overall cost. On a scale of low, medium, and high, widening Route 15 in Haymarket scored on the low range of the medium scale, said Nohe.

When Prince William County transportation officials go back and request money for the project in the fiscal year 2017 budget, they will ask for enough money to fund the bridge. That could help the project score better, said Nohe.

The Route 15 bridge project would also compete with other transportation projects like widening of Routes 1 in Woodbridge and Route 28 near Manassas, as well as other transportation projects in Northern Virginia outside Prince William County, Nohe added.

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