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To put the traffic shift in place, the on-ramp from Settlers Landing Road onto the westbound lanes of the interstate will be closed on Sunday, Aug. 20 between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Similar to I-64 west of Newport News on the Peninsula, VDOT and the HRTPO undertook environmental and preliminary engineering studies for the improvement of the eight-mile (13 km), 48-year-old corridor of the I-64 from I-464 in Chesapeake to the Bower's Hill Interchange. This included replacing the functionally obsolete High Rise Bridge, which ...
Interstate 64 (I-64) is an east–west Interstate Highway in the Eastern United States. Its western terminus is at I-70 , U.S. Route 40 (US 40), and US 61 in Wentzville, Missouri . Its eastern terminus is at the Bowers Hill Interchange with I-264 and I-664 at Bower's Hill in Chesapeake, Virginia .
The road was built to lead northbound traffic from I-64 and the HRBT to downtown Newport News. The interchange at I-64 was rebuilt as a partial stack interchange in 1980. I-664 was completed in sections by 1989, between Aberdeen Road and the 26th/27th street exit ramps in downtown Newport News.
A vehicle fire Thursday on I-64 ignited a brush fire at mile marker 100 on the slope of Afton Mountain in Nelson County, causing traffic delays.
It was a number of years before the newer I-664 portion was built. The 21-mile (34 km) roadway connects with I-64 at Bower's Hill in Chesapeake and crosses through portions of Portsmouth and Suffolk to cross Hampton Roads via the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel and then pass through eastern Newport News to reconnect with I-64 in Hampton ...
Warwick Boulevard, once a major through traffic route, and now mostly a local connector road, is largely paralleled by newer highways, Interstate 64 and State Route 143 (Jefferson Avenue). These, with more lanes and higher speed limits, in combination with Warwick Boulevard, form the major east–west highways through modern-day Newport News.
Tuesday evening's commute resulted in traffic snaking its way into Newport streets and reaching as far as Middletown in some cases. RITBA work on Newport Pell Bridge can't stop to ease traffic ...