Major Projects
U. S. Route 460 Corridor Improvements
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History
In the 1930s, a two-lane highway was built between Petersburg and Suffolk to
parallel the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad line that had been
constructed in
the 1890s. This road was widened to four lanes in the
1950s. There were no
medians, shoulders or divided sections on the
highway.
In 2000, the
Virginia Transportation Act designated
Route 460 as a “high priority corridor”
between Interstate 295 in
Petersburg and the Route 58 bypass in
Suffolk.
The Virginia
Department of Transportation (VDOT) began a
location study for Route
460 in 2003. Also that year, the General Assembly
passed legislation
requiring a Public-Private Transportation act (PPTA)
solicitation for
improvements to the highway. 
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
signed
the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in the spring of
2005. In
November 2005, the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB)
selected the
preferred alignment for the new highway, triggering the
requirements of the 2003
PPTA legislation.
Route 460 is part of
the federally designated National
Highway System. Improvements to the
corridor between Suffolk and Petersburg were
evaluated as part of the
national “TransAmerica Study” that resulted from the
federal
government’s Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in
1991.
In the late 1990s, Virginia and West Virginia collaborated
on a
study of potential improvements between Beckley, W. Va. and
Virginia
Beach.
VDOT issued a Solicitation for Proposals (SFP)
on Feb. 15, 2006,
for the development and/or operation of the new U.S.
Route 460. VDOT issued
Addendum #1 to the SFP on March 31, 2006.
VDOT issued Addendum #2 to the
SFP on June 6, 2006.
The
timeline for the procurement for the Route 460
project was revised in
Addendum #2. The revised timeline for the
procurement process
under the Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA) and the Implementation
Guidelines is
below. The dates that have been changed or added are
marked with
an asterisk.
Project Schedule
- Independent Review Panel recommendations, May 2007
- Commonwealth Transportation Board resolution, July 2007
- Solicitation for detailed proposals, Fall 2008
- Detailed proposal submission, Spring 2009
- Interim or comprehensive agreement, Fall 2009
