[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Proposed bill to add tolls to Interstate 81 has some truck drivers, truck companies concerned (1/23)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Virginia eyes truck-only tolls on I-81 (1/23)

[Viking2002]

That I-77 to I-81 merge in southern VA is an absolute nightmare. It doesn't help when you're at the mercy of some yahoo cutting in line to avoid a congestion area where it's posted and causing a lane closure, but really. But if we're talking from a standpoint of interstate travel, I-77 from Charlotte to Statesville is criminal. I've been driving that for 20 years, and they're still working in the same stretches. There ought to be an investigation for graft and kickbacks. No way in hell can it take any SHA planners that long to finish improvements. Someone is pocketing a lot of taxpayer money to drag out that misery.

[dangus]

I-81 has an obscene amount of traffic for a mostly rural route. It so totally needs a third lane. But damn, Richmond... build it yourselves.

[dangus]

I wonder how much traffic could be replaced by extending train service down the length of I-81 to Bristol. Even 10% would be huge.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Virginia Senate votes to establish fuel tax for I-81 improvements (2/13)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

(Virginia) Senate OKs raising fuel tax to improve I-81 (2/13)

[Enlightened1]

It will only make the roads worse on i81.

Have you seen how long it has taken Virginia to expand i95 outside the beltway? They have been working on it since the 1970s, and there is still no end in site. Jammed with traffic every time I’ve driven by and it does not matter the time of day.

You get them on i81it will take them 100 years to complete it, and the traffic will be far worse.

When it comes to highway construction Virginia gets a solid F- Virginia is probably the worst State in the Union when it comes to Highway projects.

[Thibodeaux]

Forbes published an article with a graphical analysis of freight volume.

I 81 carries the highest volume of freight of any interstate in the country.