County transportation was the main topic of discussion at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors, as Virginia Department of Transportation Saluda Residency Engineer Lee McKnight provided his department’s quarterly update.
“There is a lot going on,” McKnight said. “We are in construction season here in Gloucester.”
McKnight said that work on the Fiddlers Green Road light turn lane signal is still pending, but he said that VDOT will get that work done. He said that VDOT is working on the Rural Rustic project on Bonniville Road in Guinea by resurfacing a previously gravel road, which should be done this summer. He also said that the Route 216 (Guinea Road) turn lane project is ongoing and spoke about the traffic switch that was to occur Monday morning, where they closed one of the left turn lanes onto Guinea Road. There would be additional ring time added to that signal for the left turns and there still could be some backups on Route 17. He said that VDOT w...