Under Construction
Princess Anne Road Expansion Project |
| Virginia Beach |
Project at a Glance
Summer 2014
Cost
$21 million
Contractor
Branscome
Locality
Virginia Beach
District
Hampton Roads
Contact
Mitch Layton
757-376-1539
What's Being Done
The existing Princess Anne Road is a two-lane road just east of Dam Neck Road to the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. This project will widen the existing highway to a four-lane facility with turn lanes and a wide raised median to accommodate future widening when necessary.
Also included in the project are plans to construct an approximate seven-tenths of a mile section of Nimmo Parkway, providing a connector between Princess Anne Road and Holland Road.
An additional section of Nimmo Parkway, between Holland Road and General Booth Boulevard, will be built under a separate project.
For information on the Nimmo Parkway project, click here.
Why is this road being built?
The City of Virginia Beach requested the improvements be made to this corridor in November 1994. The project is also in accordance with the VDOT Six-Year Improvement Program and the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission’s 2026 Regional Transportation Plan.The 2002 traffic volume on Princess Anne Road is approximately 22,000 vehicles on a typical weekday. By 2021, it is anticipated that the volume will increase to approximately 51,000 vehicles per day.
Benefits
The proposed widening will greatly improve traffic operations and reduce congestion along this segment of Princess Anne Road.
Project Update
The next traffic switch will occur in May 2012, and will enable crews to demolish and reconstruct the last sections of Princess Anne Road. During this time, the traffic pattern will remain one lane in each direction. The intersection of Princess Anne Road and Nimmo Parkway is near completion and will feature brick paver crosswalks and medians, in addition to a decorative brick wall on each
quadrant. The Nimmo Parkway extension between Princess Anne Road and Holland Road will be open to traffic by September 2012. Sound wall construction has begun at the Curry Comb Court intersection and crews expect two more sound walls to be complete by the fall.
