VDOT crews make repairs along paved areas of Mt. Gilead Road in Leesburg. The yellow-and-black signs show where gravel road surface ends and paved begins.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: transportation, VDOT

VDOT crews make repairs to paved areas of Mt. Gilead Road in Leesburg.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: transportation, VDOT

VDOT crews make repairs to paved areas of Mt. Gilead Road in Leesburg.

Photo: Tracy A. Woodward, Washington Post

Tagged: transportation, VDOT

A bus crosses the dirt bridge over Tuscarora Creek. After the Battlefield Parkway extension is completed in 2009, the Virginia Department of Transportation will likely close this part of Lawson Road.

Photo: Cara McCoy, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: Battlefield Parkway, construction, Leesburg, Road, VDOT

This is the bridge on Lawson Road, which motorists now take to get to Route 7.

Photo: Cara McCoy, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: Battlefield Parkway, construction, Leesburg, Road, VDOT

Leesburg Town Councilwoman Kathryn Sheldon Hammler puts on her hardhat before digging dirt at the ground-breaking of the Battlefield Parkway extension.

Photo: Cara McCoy, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: Battlefield Parkway, construction, Leesburg, Leesburg Town Council, Road, VDOT

Officials break ground on the Battlefield Parkway extension Thursday morning. From left: John Drury, citizen-activist and neighborhood resident; council member Ken Reid; Brendan Pevarski, spokesman for U.S. Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.); Leesburg Mayor Kristen Umstattdt; council member Kathryn Sheldon Hammler; Supervisor Kelly Burk; council member Kevin Wright; VDOT district administrator Morteza Salehi; VDOT program manager Susan Shaw; Jeff Austin, Shirley Design/Build LLC project manager.

Photo: Cara McCoy, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: Battlefield Parkway, construction, Leesburg, Leesburg Town Council, Road, VDOT

Virginia Department of Transportation engineer Susan Shaw explains some of the details of the Battlefield Parkway extension. At left is Leesburg Mayor Kristen Umstattd.

Photo: Cara McCoy, LoudounExtra.com

Tagged: Battlefield Parkway, construction, Leesburg, Leesburg Town Council, Road, VDOT

Rick Petry, a senior director at Belfort Furniture, looks out the window at Cedar Green Road.

Photo: Danya Smith / Special to The Washington Post

Tagged: Route 28, Sterling, VDOT

This window in the office of Belfort Furniture looks out on Cedar Green Road. The truck visible in the background is on Cedar Green Road where it intersects with Shaw Road.

Photo: Danya Smith / Special to The Washington Post

Tagged: Route 28, Sterling, VDOT

Rick Petry, a senior director at Belfort Furniture, opens the blinds of a window that looks out at Cedar Green Road.

Photo: Danya Smith / Special to The Washington Post

Tagged: Route 28, Sterling, VDOT

Dan Kennedy, left, and Rick Petry work in the Belfort Furniture company office.

Photo: Danya Smith / Special to The Washington Post

Tagged: Route 28, Sterling, VDOT

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