VA 28:

1987 Draft Environment Impact Statement




In the mid-1980's, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration began to study improvemnts to VA 28 between Interstate 66 in Fairfax County and VA 7 Leesburg Pike in Loudoun County.

The cumulation of the study was published in 1987 as the Route 28 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).  The VA 28 DEIS recommended upgrading VA 28 between I-66 and VA 7 to a six to eight lane fully limited access freeway using right of way that was purchased when the roadway was originally built in 1960 and 1961.  Interchanges would be built at the multiple locations along VA 28.  Construction on two interchanges along VA 28 - US 50 and VA 7 - would be completed by VDOT in the 1990's.  Construction of the remaining interchanges would not begin until the 2000's when VDOT entered into a Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA) agreement with Clark Construction Group, Inc. Clark's subsidiary Shirley Contracting Company, LLC will be responsible for the actual construction process.  By the time construction began some of the interchange designs were modified from what was proposed in this study.

The following links will take you to scans of the 1987 DEIS proposed interchanges for each location.  Also described are any differences between the proposed interchange and what was ultimately built.  On the interchange map scans, Phase 1 improvements from the study are shown as solid lines. Phase 2 improvments are shown as dotted lines. The interchanges are listed from the north end to the south end of the section of VA 28 that was slated for upgrading.
As a part of the 1987 study, VDOT also studied an alternate corridor for VA 28 from just south of the current Willard Road intersection. See the scan to the right for a map of the alternate corridor. South of Interstate 66 I surmise that the Route 28 Alternate Corridor reconnected with the existing VA 28 somewhere north or south of Manassas. This is not specifically discussed in the 1987 Study. The purpose of the alternate corridor was to avoid impacts to Ellanor C. Lawrence Park. Ultimately, the alternative corridor was rejected because impacts to other parks, including Bull Run Regional Park, were greater along the alternative corridor than leaving VA 28 in its existing corridor.

Several roads from the alternative corridor proposal were ultimately built:
  • Poplar Tree Road Realinged (Number 1 on map scan.)
  • Westfields Boulevard (Number 2 on map scan.)
  • Stonecroft Boulevard - Only built north of Westfields Boulevard (Number 3 on map scan.)
  • Willard Road (Number 4 on map scan.)
Scan of 1987 DEIS Route 28 Alternative Corridor




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Last Update: 07/25/09