Completion of Virginia’s privately financed Interstate-95 Express Lanes extension will be delayed by at least a year, as contractors contend with troublesome soils and supply-chain issues.
Transurban, which manages the P3 project for the Virginia Dept. of Transportation, says the revised target opening date—pushed back from October 2022 to late 2023—results in large part from difficulties associatedwithhighly plastic clay-and-silt-laden Potomac Formation soils at several locations along the 10-mile project corridor in Stafford County.