CSX, in partnership with the District Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, launched a new website at www.virginiaavenuetunnel.com, which is a compilation of previously released project information and will serve as an information hub moving forward as new project information is made available. In addition to the launch of […]
CSX announced on Wednesday that the company now has the funds and the federal partner needed to begin the Virginia Avenue tunnel expansion project. CSX will contribute $160 million over the next several years to complete the National Gateway project, with the majority of the investment being used to expand the 107-year-old Virginia Avenue tunnel […]
Portions of this interview are cross-posted on DC Like a Local Unnoticed among the primary hubbub is Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, now running for her 11th term as our Delegate to Congress. Congresswoman Norton was kind enough to share her time this Saturday with a few of DC’s bloggers. Many topics of concern to Capitol […]
CSX offered local bloggers the chance to tour the stretch of Virginia Ave SE that will be the site of a temporary track and tunnel reconstruction project beginning as early as winter 2011. While the tour yielded little new information about the construction project or CSX’s plans post construction, CSX representatives did share what community […]
In February, it was reported that CSX did not receive the funds needed to begin the Virginia Avenue Tunnel project, however, according to CSX’s Steve Flippin, the project is moving forward. “CSX is now pursuing alternate avenues of funding, which include a transportation authorization bill and national infrastructure reinvestment funds,” said Flippin. CSX is also […]