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Crozet Avenue Reduced to One Lane for Bridge Replacement
Lisa Martin
An eight-month headache is getting underway near downtown Crozet as VDOT workers prepare to rehabilitate a substandard bridge over Lickinghole Creek on Crozet Avenue. A short span near Oak Drive will be closed, one lane at a time, during the $2.2 million project that was supposed to begin in the spring of 2022 but will be done now and followed by the Rt. 240/250 roundabout project at Mechums River. VDOT says the existing concrete span bridge was built in 1921 and carries approximately 7,100 vehicles daily, according to 2017 data.
During construction work, traffic over the bridge will move at 15 mph and will be controlled by a temporary signal; traffic in the open lane will be separated from the work by temporary barriers. The project is scheduled to be completed in July 2022.
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Lisa Martin joined the Gazette in 2017 and writes about education and local government. She also writes in-depth pieces about division-wide education issues and broader investigative pieces on topics from recycling to development to living with wildlife. Her Coyotes in Crozet story won a 2017 Virginia Press Association "Best in Show" award for the Gazette. Martin has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, taught college for several years, and writes fiction and poetry. She co-authored a children's trilogy about two adventuring cats, the Anton and Cecil series, which got rave reviews from the New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly and others.
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