Effective Tuesday, the speed limit on a seven-mile stretch of Richmond Highway south of the Alexandria city limits will be 35 miles per hour, down from the previous limit of 45 miles per hour.

The lawsuit alleges the ongoing construction to expand the I-495 toll lanes “has and will cause severe damage” to health, property, and the environment.

In December, a driver struck and killed a 68-year-old woman, Nguyet Ly, while she was walking on the 5900 block of Leesburg Pike near a gas station.

According to Dominion Energy’s Outage Map, more than 150 customers are currently experiencing outages in Fairfax and Prince William counties.

“It’s an information problem,” one driver tells DCist/WAMU. “I didn’t know what I was running into.”

The “diverging diamond” design has has actually proved pretty successful in reducing accidents at intersections.

When I was in middle school, I was, for some reason, placed into the “gifted” student program. (Yup, sure putting that to good use.) Long story short, the program granted students one period a day to pursue independent academic pursuits with minimal supervision and no real culmination requirement. I, of course, used this as an excuse to play SimCity obsessively. I suppose what I’m getting at here is that I’m having a tougher time than normal condemning Virginia Department of Transportation employee Matthew Bolick, who was recently caught spending about 30 hours of on-the-clock time playing Civilization IV.