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Loudoun County officials say a strategic decision that the Board of Supervisors made two years ago has shaped the county’s financing of several major transportation projects and provided a means to help attract businesses to the county.
Washington Post, February 1, 2015
Pacific Boulevard construction
About 80 people packed a small meeting room at the Dulles South Multipurpose Center in South Riding on Jan. 22, as Loudoun County launched a community outreach project intended to help shape development in the rapidly growing area west and south of Dulles Airport.
Washington Post, January 28, 2015
About 60 people who live near Catharpin Park turned out for a community meeting Sept. 25 to express their strong opposition to a proposal to build a school bus transportation center next to the park.
Washington Post, October 5, 2014
About 50 area residents attended a town hall meeting about Route 28 in Manassas. The event was organized to call attention to the worsening traffic congestion on the road and to hear from Virginia Department of Transportation officials about a traffic study that is in progress.
Washington Post, September 14, 2014
Prince William County Schools officials will hold a community meeting Sept. 25 on a proposed school bus transportation center to serve the rapidly growing area northwest of the Manassas Battlefield.
Washington Post, August 27, 2014
Officials from Leesburg, Loudoun County and the Virginia General Assembly gathered in the rain to celebrate the reopening of Sycolin Road.
Washington Post, August 13, 2014
Loudoun might have to dip into the county’s general fund to help pay for the extension of Metrorail’s Silver Line into the county, and that possibility raised the eyebrows of at least one supervisor at a Board of Supervisors meeting.
Washington Post, June 9, 2014
Parents of schoolchildren who live in and around the Exeter neighborhood in Leesburg are organizing to keep school buses running in their community.
Some Exeter residents say that new walking routes proposed for their neighborhood are dangerous and that parents who drive their children to school instead of allowing them to walk will add to congestion on North King Street near Tuscarora High School and Smarts Mill Middle School.
Washington Post, July 15, 2013
Loudoun County has opened a new park and ride lot near Hamilton.
Leesburg Patch, September 28, 2011
Connecting Linden Hill to Country Club Drive is a dangerous solution to the neighborhoods access problem.
Leesburg Patch, September 7, 2011