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Patriot's Crossing |
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Project at a Glance
TBD
Cost
Ranges from $3.122 billion to $4.224 billion
Contractor
TBD
Locality
Norfolk
District
Hampton Roads
Contact
Chris Collins
804-225-4249
Hampton Roads Public Affairs
757-925-1515
Project Overview
This would be the one of the last stages of the Navy Triangle Improvement Strategy. This purpose behind this strategy is to construct a new four-lane tunnel and bridge system between the I-564 Intermodal Connector in Norfolk and the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel. It would also include a connection to Craney Island in Portsmouth.
Navy Triangle Improvements
- Fleet Recreational Park was a replacement recreational facility for the Norfolk Naval Base that allowed VDOT to use the previous site for the widening of Hampton Boulevard and the construction of the I-564 Intermodal Connector.
- Hampton Boulevard will create a grade separation thus eliminating the need to interrupt vehicular traffic for railway movement in to and out of the port terminals.
- The Intermodal Connector will realign I-564 to Hampton Boulevard with improved access into Naval Station Norfolk and Norfolk International Terminals.
- Patriot's Crossing will create a connection from I-564 to I-664 which will travel under the Elizabeth River.
- Terminal Boulevard-Funds Pending
Draft Documents in PDF
- Air Quality Analysis Technical Report (4.6 MB)
- Environmental Assessment (12 MB)
- Traffic Technical Memo (968 KB)
- Noise Analysis Technical Report (5 MB)
Recent Press about the Project
Plan looks at new bridge-tunnel
The Virginian-Pilot, January 2011
Public Meetings were Held
April 3: 4−7 p.m., Lake Taylor High School, 1384 Kempsville Road,Norfolk
April 4: 4−7 p.m., Churchland High School, 4301 Cedar Lane, Portsmouth
These meetings will be in an open forum public hearing format. An open forum public hearing (open house) encourages one-on-one discussions in an informal setting. This style of meeting has an easy,open and encouraging effect on citizens and can be very helpful in building a sense of consensus between the Department and citizens.At the meeting, people familiar with all facets and features of the project visually display their information. The purpose of the open
forum may be to suggest solutions or may simply be to give information and facts. The process is highly interactive with technical people presenting and fielding questions from communities, individual citizens, or small groups.
Presentation boards (Zip, 77 MB)
Project Update
The Virginia Secretary of Transportation directed the Virginia Office of Transportation Public Private Partnerships (OTP3) to obtain an independent estimate of the cost to construct Patriot’s Crossing which only includes two of the five phases of the Third Crossing – the Elizabeth River crossing and the Craney Island Connector phases. This request was made to address the confusion between estimates, to validate that the Patriot’s Crossing estimates reflect current construction cost trends, and to clarify the costs only associated with Patriot’s Crossing.
OTP3 tasked its on-call consultant, Halcrow Group, to prepare the independent planning level construction cost estimate. Halcrow considered such items as the detailed cost estimate from the Midtown Tunnel/Downtown Tunnel/MLK Extension Project for similar design and construction elements related to tunnel work, the Virginia Port Authority cost information relative to the Craney Island Connector section, and other construction cost resources as part of that independent estimating process. The scope of the Patriot’s Crossing project includes a new four-lane east-west bridge and tunnel connector from I-664 to the Intermodal Connector in Norfolk and a new four-lane connector to Craney Island from the new Patriot’s Crossing to Route 164 (Western Freeway).
