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Major
Corridor Studies
- King Coal Highway, Williamson to Bluefield (Completed)
- A location study
initiated in 1992 by the consulting engineering firm of
L. Robert Kimball & Associates studied various
alternatives to provide a four-lane highway with partial
access control between Appalachian Corridor G near
Williamson, WV and I-77 near Bluefield, WV. Extending
approximately 40 miles, the costs for this improvement
ranged from $1 - 1/2 billion to
$2 - 1/3 billion. The
engineering study was completed in April, 1995.
As a result the
WVDOH and the Federal Highway Administration propose to
construct the King
Coal Highway an approximately 90-mile highway
from a point near Williamson at the intersection of
WV 65 and US 119 to Interstate 77 at its US 52
interchange in the Bluefield area call the
King
Coal Highway.
- Coalfields Expressway, Beckley to VA State Line
near Grundy, VA (Completed)
- A location study
initiated in 1992 by the consulting engineering firm of
Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff studied various
alternatives to provide a four-lane highway with partial
access control from Beckley, WV via Welch, WV to the VA
State Line near Grundy, VA. Extending approximately 55
miles, alternative costs ranged from $1 billion to
$1-1/2 billion. The engineering study was completed in
March, 1995.
As a
result the Coalfields
Expressway has been designed to serve an area
from Interstates 77 and 64 near Beckley southwest
through West Virginia to Virginia Route 83 in Buchanan
County, VA at Slate. The Expressway will generally
follow West Virginia Route 16 through Raleigh and
Wyoming Counties, and West Virginia Route 83 in McDowell
County. This four-lane highway project, 62 miles long,
is now approaching its construction phase.
- North South Appalachia Corridor Feasibility Study
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North/
South Appalachian Corridor Study
- This is a study
to determine the relative costs and social, economic
and environmental benefits of transportation improvements
in several north-south transportation corridors in
Appalachia West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and
northwestern Virginia". The study corridors extend between proposed
Corridor H/I-66 in the south to the Pennsylvania Turnpike
in the north. The four corridors studied follows US 219, US 220,
US 522 and Interstate 81.
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