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These are the latest in an ongoing series of reforms suggested for VDOT, which was recently skewered for gross mismanagement on the massive Springfield Interchange project by a federal auditor.
Straightening out the highway department has been atop Warner’s agenda in his first year in office. In fact the legislature adopted a series of reforms earlier this year.
One of the biggest changes at the highway agency came when Warner hired a new commissioner, Philip Shucet, in the spring. Shucet has spent the bulk of his time implementing a laundry list of reforms and rebuilding public confidence.
So far, the changes at VDOT have garnered favorable praise from former critics, but the latest federal audit and the failure of a regional sales tax increase to boost transportation spending has raised a new round of questions.
Part of Warner’s latest request would require the agency to develop a relatively inexpensive congestion relief program for the state’s two most car-choked regions—Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads, which also happen to be the two regions that rejected higher taxes to pay for road improvements.
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