Staff Writer
Photo by Scott McCloskey
Road resurfacing work is expected to begin on I-70 near the West Virginia Welcome Center in Ohio County by next week if weather permits.
Motorists traveling Interstate 70 near the West Virginia Welcome Center in Ohio County can expect road resurfacing repairs to begin by next week near where the Tunnel Ridge mining company performed longwall mining beneath the area just a few months ago. According to West Virginia Division of Highways Area Engineer Mike Witherow, the road resurfacing work has been delayed slightly because of the recent wave of rainy weather and the resurfacing work is “weather dependent.”
Staff Writer
Photo by Scott McCloskey
Traffic continues to be narrowed to one lane in both directions on a section of Interstate 70 Friday near the West Virginia Welcome Center in Ohio County as a longwall mining operation passes deep below the surface.
Motorists now driving through one-lane sections of Interstate 70 near the West Virginia Welcome Center in Ohio County won’t have much longer to deal with that. Road resurfacing repairs due to longwall mining in the area should be finished by early April, according to the West Virginia Division of Highways.
WVDOH Area Engineer Mike Witherow said the DOH will perform some surveying work prior to a local contractor repairing the highway, as another longwall coal panel has passed deep below the surface in that area.
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Photo by Scott McCloskey â Motorists are detoured off Exit 2A at Mount de Chantal Road in Wheeling as the section of I-70 West at the Fulton Bridges was closed for nearly nine months as part of the I-70 Bridges Project. That section of the interstate was reopened in October ahead of schedule.
WHEELING Whether it was the ongoing construction of the $215 million Interstate 70 Bridges Project or traffic delays brought on by a longwall mining project near the Pennsylvania state line, one thing is for sure: I-70 was significantly impacted by two separate highway projects in Ohio County in 2020.