Waynesboro City Council voted unanimously Monday to amend the agreement between the city and state for the Delphine Avenue Improvement Project.

In the amendment, the Virginia Department of Transportation will lift $26,000 of the project’s expense from the shoulders of the city, but will expect Waynesboro to accept more responsibility should the project be delayed or expenses increase, said City Manager Mike Hamp.

Bridge replacement to close N. Delphine Avenue

HARRISONBURG – House District 25 candidates Steve Landes and Greg Marrow debated health care, transportation and job creation during an hour interview Tuesday morning on Harrisonburg radio station WSVA.

After the withdrawal of Del. Chris Saxman, R-Staunton, the entrenched four-term incumbent well funded by special interests in Richmond, the 20th House District suddenly became the only open delegate seat in the Valley north of Roanoke, making it the area’s most competitive race (“A familiar ring in the 20th,” July 30). It became a doable race for a moderate, fiscally conservative Democrat to win.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is eliminating two Augusta County rest stops, the Verona residency office and is making across the board service reductions in cuts approved Thursday by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

Government wastes like a fat man breathes, heavier and more frequently with each step. Few agencies are fatter than state departments of transportation, whose waste may be anything but voluntary. Feeding perpetually on taxpayer money, state DOTs are a traditional repository of raw gluttony, with parasitic legions swarming to nibble and sometimes chomp at bounties of billions of dollars. A query that percolates in the commonwealth: Is VDOT different?

Reading a book, drinking coffee, texting while driving.

Virginia Department of Transportation employees have seen that, and then some, from drivers while out on highway work zones.