Major updates expected for Rt. 250 in Pantops area
Road Improvements WVIR By Daniel Grimes | March 16, 2021 at 5:46 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 5:47 PM
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Some major updates are expected for Route 250 in the Pantops area of Albemarle County in the coming years. Designs for new turn lanes, a pedestrian cross walk, and signals are just getting underway as the county secured the nearly $9 million needed to fund the project.
“The reason we selected this project was because the corridor was identified as a high accident location,” Albemarle County Chief of Planning Kevin McDermott said.
Albemarle County secured $8.8 million for its first project that would start by replacing the existing traffic lights with ones that blink with a yellow left turn signal to give drivers more flexibility and ease congestion.