#i-495

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Spewing Bridge

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Downpour in the Car

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Sound Barriers

[portcitywire]

Van Dorn Street I-495 Ramp Closed Overnight This Week

Asphalt Patching on I-495 Ramp to Van Dorn Street in Alexandria May 26-28

Detour in place during overnight closures The ramp from eastbound I-495/northbound I-95 (Outer Loop of the Capital Beltway) to Van Dorn Street (Route 613) will be closed (weather permitting) Tuesday night, May 26, Wednesday night, May 27 and Thursday night, May 28 between 10 p.m. each night and 5 a.m. the following morning for asphalt patching, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. Traffic will be detoured via eastbound I-495, the northbound Eisenhower Avenue Connector (Exit 174), and westbound I-495 back to Van Dorn Street.

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VIDEO: The Silver Line from the Sky

VIDEO: The Silver Line from the Sky

Get an aerial view of Metro’s Silver Line, set to open July 26, as it snakes its way through Tysons Corner and on to Reston, Va.

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Maybe if a Republican and/or one of the whining 1% falls to their doom, they will stop snarling about cutting budgets

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Mountain of dumped dirt suspected in I-495 bridge closure

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State transportation officials said Wednesday that they believe a contractor is responsible for dumping a massive mound of dirt suspected of shifting the ground underneath an interstate highway bridge and forcing its closure. Delaware Transportation Secretary Shailen Bhatt said contractor Jim Thomas was working with the department to remove the dirt, which officials believe was dumped next to the Interstate 495 bridge in Wilmington over a period of years. Thomas couldn't be immediately reached for comment. The mountain of dirt appeared to rise about two stories and stretch nearly the length of a football field. Experts were still trying to determine the mound's exact measurements, officials said Wednesday. "That's a very big pile of dirt that has a lot of mass and a lot of weight," Bhatt said. The bridge closed Monday after four pairs of support pillars were found to be tilting. It will remain closed until engineers figure out how to brace the bridge and make it safe for the 90,000 vehicles that travel it daily. Engineers suspect that the weight of the dumped dirt caused soft soils underneath the bridge to shift, resulting in the tilting of the columns.

Mountain of dirt suspected in bridge closure