The Virginian-Pilot
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VIRGINIA BEACH -- Residents have been waiting a long time for the city of Virginia Beach to extend Lynnhaven Parkway westward to Centerville Turnpike.
According to the latest budget proposal, they have a few more years to wait for construction to start.
Jane and Larry Cutright are two residents who continue to wonder when and if the extension will ever occur.
“We’ve heard one excuse and deadline after another,” Larry Cutright said. “They made the investment to this point, why not finish?”
The Cutrights have lived in Brigadoon since 1979. They see a lot of traffic that uses Albright Drive as a connecting road between Lynnhaven Parkway and Kempsville Road.
“They get a steady pathway through there – big dump trucks use it, too,” Jane Cutright said. Dalrymple Street gets used as a cut-through as well.
For years, the Cutrights and others heard there was no funding to complete the roadway.
“We’ve been to civic league meetings, written to the paper – we’ve done it all,” said Jane Cutright, who has contemplated starting a petition.
The area that would complete the road crosses a small creek between the Brigadoon and Charlestowne neighborhoods. If the extension were complete, Lynnhaven would connect all the way through to what becomes Volvo Parkway in the Greenbrier area of Chesapeake.
The project has never been fully funded, said Norbert Kuhn, senior project manager for Virginia Beach’s Public Works Department.
“Year after year we get less and less funds, and therefore it kept getting delayed – but we’re anticipating the funds to come in.” As of now, Kuhn said, the department expects construction, estimated at $22.6 million, to be fully funded by July 2013.
“The existing roadway has to be replaced in entirety, from Indian River Road to where it dead-ends,” Kuhn said. “The existing pavement section will not be able to handle traffic volume.”
Drainage issues in the Brigadoon area need to be addressed and upgraded, he said. A bridge and a portion of the road need to be raised before the four-lane, divided roadway, with a bikeway and sound walls, can be completed. The overall project is 2.2 miles.
“The estimated construction should take three years or less,” Kuhn said, anticipating completion by summer 2016.
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Hmmmm....?
Does the term "Village Idiots" have a place in any of these threads? One of these days, one of THEM will be inconvenienced by the lack of connection, and THEN there will be a flurry of action and completion. Until then, we're just contributors to their coffers which fund the oceanfront buildup. [On the bright side, it's NOT Illinois. OUR Village Idiots never make it to jail, as long as "it's not illegal".]
Florida is actually looking more and more welcome. Wonder if I could convince a prospective buyer that the extension "will be finished by 2016!!!" Hah!
Extension
Its crazy and happens all the time. The entrance to Crotan has been torn out and redone. Why? Nothing gets done unless you have residents connected to the City Goverment. Maybe when one of our Brigadoon residents will graduate high school grow up and becomes a goverment official so we can get something done.
Misplaced priorities - city budget has skyrocked since 2001
What a interesting comment to make considering that the city has enjoyed MASSIVE increases flooding into the city's bank account since 2001. Yet, we read a city official stating; “Year after year we get less and less funds, and therefore it kept getting delayed – but we’re anticipating the funds to come in.” The City Manager, planning department, VBDA, and City Council fail to make the right choices with how they spend our tax dollars. Some city officials keep blaming a lack of funds, really? Sorry, that dog won't hunt! Our 900 neighborhoods are left out of the priorities in favor of millions diverted to subsidizing developers and the oceanfront business lobby's list of special interest "investments". "Investments" like golf courses that lose money, a $300M replacement Convention Center, 10.6M Sportplex that costs $400k each year to keep open, and $47.5M Town Center entertainment venue (theater), $15.4M for light rail land acquition (NS ROW and Circuit City property), and countless millions spent on the SE PKY & Greenbelt land acquistion for a road that will never be built. The problem is not a lack of tax funds, but how the money the city has is being misspent.
Working for free
Yeh Right. Tell that to all the restoration companies who have lived there for months. Work for free? Covering up shoddy workman ship or piss poor plans should be investigated. Inspectors to cozy with the builder just asking. I would look much deeper. The storm was not even a hurricane. So what is going to happen when we do get a level 2-3. The building may tip over. This building may be big for VA but not the first one built. We are in a hurricane area it would be interesting to find out what wind-storm level this leaking sieve was suppose to be rated for? Who was the engineering firm who signed off on this inverted funnel? Now that would be a better story. The only consolation appears that the armada hoffler groups of owners have ownership of several of the condos and their name is on the building and reputation. So they cannot walk away. They sold many of their friends the mother lode and cannot walk away. But somehow I feel the citizens of the beach are paying somehow for this mess. Since they are in bed and tied to the hip on the town center project.
sorry wrong story
posted to wrong story
but wait
The 31st laskin road gateway with no way to get there from here gold mine of favortisum has to be develop first. The convention center without a hotel. The town with no center. Buy in dirt around the air station and then reselling at a loss. But a road that would serve as a southern route to avoid congestion since the southeastern pwy is apparently dead. no way.
Re: Lynnhaven Parkway
Typical BS, I have traveled that road for over 20 years and there has been one main issue. Build more houses, build more houses and build two high schools, build more shops and oh build more houses. So why would the road have to be finished to handle all the traffic? He Princess Anne went from a two lane road near PA Park to a major 8 lane highway. Why, because it leads to City Hall.