Virginia Road Map

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Virginia Road Map gives an extensive and comprehensive overview about the various road networks in Virginia, enabling the travelers to move around the state with ease and comfort.

The US state of Virginia is one among the several states that has been hugely benefited by the US Interstate Highway System, the remarkable feat of civil engineering and planning. The Virginia Road Map helps people to reach their desired destination in Virginia.

Spread along 16 segments of Interstate Highways, starting from I-95, which was opened in 1959, Virginia Interstate Highway System accounts for more than 30% of the total vehicular journey (65 million miles from a total of 215 million miles) in Virginia everyday.

The entire highway system of Virginia covers 57,867 miles and can be classified into several categories. Interstate Highways (1,118 miles), which usually has four, six, eight or ten lanes, connect various important cities and states. The Primary Highways with its two to six lane roads is 8,111 miles long. It interconnects all the major towns and cities of Virginia. The highway also link these cities and town with the interstates. The 48,305 miles county roads are the local connectors of the state. Other than these roadways, the cities and counties of Virginia maintain several other frontage, urban streets

Some Interstates of Virginia have railway line as a median strip between the lanes, while some have inner lanes meant for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV). While Springfield and Chesapeake are two among the busiest crossings, Interstate 81 connecting Interstates 64, 66 and 77, is the longest Interstate Highway of this US State.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Big Walker Mountain Tunnel in the Appalachian and Monitor Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel are few among several Engineering marvels of the state that can be cherished by all the travelers.

The upcoming project of making a series of 12 lane bridges in 2011 is considered to be one of the most successful road infrastructure development initiatives in the US. It is a joint venture of Virginia, Maryland and US Transportation Agencies. The ongoing Woodrow Wilson Bridge (reconstruction) project has become one of the biggest highway construction projects in the country.