Roads

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors gave the go-ahead July 21 to making a sign-removal pilot program launched earlier this year a permanent fixture in Loudoun.

Once upon a time there was a windy little dirt road, just wide enough for two cars to drive in each direction, that connected Route 7 just west of Route 28 to Waxpool Road east of Ashburn.

Funded by Loudoun County through a 2006 bond referendum, the $23.3 million “Route 7-607 Interchange” project on Route 7 at the Loudoun County Parkway went out for bids in December 2008, with the winning bidder, Shirley Contracting Company LLC, starting the work in January 2009. Once completed, one of Loudoun County’s “Top 10 Most Dangerous Intersections” will be eliminated.