Fresh off a resounding endorsement of a $1.6 billion road bond referendum, West Virginia transportation officials are now strategizing how those funds, along with other recently approved revenue sources, will be put to work.
The road bonds, approved by 73% of voters in an Oct. 7 special election, make up more than half of a $2.8 billion transportation funding initiative proposed earlier this year by Gov. Jim Justice (R). Plans call for selling the bonds in phases to support major infrastructure projects such as the is major rehabilitation and replacement of the I-70 Ohio River Bridge at Wheeling and I-64 bridges across the Kanawha River at Nitro, and across the New River near Beckley.