Breaking News for Culpeper and Warrenton Accident Victims

Fix at Deadly Culpeper Intersection to be Delayed

Posted on Aug 27, 2008

It's more bad news for Culpeper County's new Eastern View High School, which has run into series of problems since its inception.

Construction of an interchange on U.S. 29 to serve the school that opens Aug. 20 will be delayed for several years. Both Commonwealth Transportation Board member Butch Davies and Virginia Department of Transportation Culpeper resident engineer Quinton Elliott said yesterday that it will be at least 2013--and likely longer before the project is under way.

"There have been significant changes in the financial picture," Davies told the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors. "The economic issues our country is dealing with are impacting us."

Both Davies and Elliott said that originally the interchange project at U.S. 29 and State Route 666 was slated to cost about $28 million and construction was to begin no later than spring 2011.

Those construction costs are expected to jump to about $40 million by 2014, Davies said.