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Widening Routes 1 & 28, VRE on Transportation Funding List

MANASSAS, Va. -- Taxes are going up in Virginia on July 1 to pay for transportation improvements across the state.

Locally, elected officials on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, and its chairman Prince William County Supervisor Martin Nohe, narrowed a list of 47 proposed transportation projects down to 33 that, if they were to be built, would cost taxpayers an estimated $500 million.

The Northern Virginia region to include Prince William but not Stafford, is set to receive just $190 million from the transportation monies 2014 from the new taxes, so local officials need to be clear when it 

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