Widening of Minnieville Road Underway

MANASSAS, VA — Preliminary work on the widening of Minnieville Road from two to four lanes is underway, Prince William County announced Friday.

Motorists who use the road will be seeing utility workers between Route 234 and Spriggs Road.

Simultaneous to the work on Minnieville Road, work also is being done to realign and improve Courage Drive, which runs parallel to Minnieville between Howison Park and January Court.

The road will remain open during most of the construction, although a detour might be necessary when the project crosses Powell's Creek near Alps Drive.

Rich Windish, the Prince William County construction manager overseeing the $30-million project, said the improvements will ease traffic congestion for drivers with the widening and the new traffic signals and traffic patterns at Route 234.

"Because it's going from two lanes to four, it's going handle a larger volume of traffic," he said in a release. "The level of service will be increased by the dual lanes in each direction."

The project, part of the voter-approved 2006 Bond Referendum, is scheduled to be complete in November 2018. Funding for the project came from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, the Virginia Department of Transportation and the county.

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