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Construction of the Memorial Tunnel began in 1952. [3] It opened to traffic on November 8, 1954, [1] at a final cost of $5 million. [4] Its construction required moving 91,000 cubic yards (70,000 m 3) of earth, and it was the first tunnel in the nation to have closed-circuit television monitoring.
The West Virginia Turnpike is a member of the E-ZPass electronic toll collection consortium, allowing members to attach a transponder to their windshield or front bumper and pay electronically. [31] West Virginia E-ZPass members can pay a flat annual fee for unlimited travel on the West Virginia Turnpike. [30] [32]
Originally known as Memorial Tunnel, the tunnel formerly carried West Virginia Turnpike through/under Paint Creek Mountain in Standard, West Virginia in Kanawha County. Its construction required the movement of 91,000 cubic yards (70,000 m 3) of earth, and was the first tunnel in the nation to have closed-circuit television monitoring. [1] at a ...
This is a list of turnpike roads, built and operated by nonprofit turnpike trusts or private companies in exchange for the privilege of collecting a toll, in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia, mainly in the 19th century. While most of the roads are now maintained as free public roads, some have been abandoned.
I-77 through Virginia passes through two tunnels: the Big Walker and East River mountain tunnels. For eight miles (13 km), I-77 and I-81 overlap near Wytheville . This is a wrong-way concurrency , where two roads run concurrent with each other but are designated in opposite directions.
The West Virginia Parkways Authority was created in 1989 [3] as a successor to the West Virginia Turnpike Commission. The agency is tasked with operating the West Virginia Turnpike , an 88-mile (142 km) tolled stretch of Interstate 77 from Charleston to Princeton .
Dec. 15—GRUNDY, Va. — Members of the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority got their first look this week at the different Grundy to West Virginia road alignment options for the new four ...
While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.