Prince William and Stafford counties are about to get new commuter parking spaces.
Virginia Transportation Secretary Sean Connaughton announced today that state will spend $7.8 million in new commuter parking inititives in Prince William County.
Officials say $7.2 million will go to build a new 600-space commuter parking lot on the grounds of an old commuter bus lot off Telegraph Road. The lot is about a quarter-mile from the the Horner Road commuter parking lot in Woodbridge – already the state’s largest commuter parking lot.
“We have a shot term, a medium term and a long-term solution. We will hopefully be adding 1,000 spaces in the short to medium term and adding additional spaces in the long term,” said Connaughton.
The spaces will be built on the grounds of an old commuter bus lot adjacent to the Horner Road lot, on Telegraph Road.
Newly needed pedestrian improvements between the two lots will also be added.
In Stafford County, state transportation officials are polling government officials about where to add new commuter parking spaces as part of the High Occupancy Toll lanes project.
Connaughton says he knows they’re needed, and that a mass amount of commuter parking will have to be built throughout the Interstate 95/395 HOT lanes corridor from Garrisonville Road (Va. 610) to Edsall Road in Alexandria
That project will extend the current HOV lanes on I-95 from Dumfries to Va. 610.
“The VDOT staff has been out already reaching out to the local government…we anticipate the demands being different in each area affected by the HOT lanes projects and our hope is to have a study done by the end of the year,” said Connaughton.
It’s not yet clear where the new commuter parking spaces will be built in Stafford County.
Today’s announcement comes on the same day Prince William County officials signed a one-year, $289,000 deal with the First Baptist Church of Woodbridge to lease 370 commuter parking spaces.
Commuters may begin parking there March 15.
Prince William County officials began looking for additional parking spaces after Potomac Mills mall earlier this month reduced the number of commuter parking spaces there by 75 percent, from 1,000 to 275.
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