News releases

09/03/2025

Drivers reminded to use caution and stay alert when traveling through the 495 NEXT project work zone in Tysons-McLean area

FAIRFAX, VA - With construction activities on the new express lanes increasing and now concentrated in the median along the project corridor, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and its 495 Express Lanes Northern Extension (495 NEXT) project partner, Transurban, have launched a driver safety campaign. The awareness campaign emphasizes to drivers that active roadway construction and hundreds of workers are directly adjacent to Beltway traffic. The “Closer Than You Think” campaign will leverage ads that will run on radio, as well as various social media platforms, throughout September and into October as “back to work and school” traffic resumes and drivers adjust to post-summer travel patterns.

08/25/2025

Ramps from westbound and eastbound Dulles Toll Road/Airport Access Highway (Route 267) to northbound I-495 (Capital Beltway) and ramp from northbound I-495 to southbound George Washington Memorial Parkway will be closed and detoured nightly through Sept. 5, with the exception of Aug. 29-Sept. 1, for 495 NEXT project work

FAIRFAX, VA - Starting on or about tonight, Monday, Aug. 25 and continuing nightly through Thursday night, Aug. 28, and again Tuesday night, Sept. 2 through Friday night, Sept. 5, the ramp from eastbound Dulles Toll Road/Airport Access Highway to northbound I-495 (Capital Beltway Inner Loop) (Exit 18B) will be closed and detoured from 9:30 p.m. at night to 5 a.m. the next morning. The ramp from northbound I-495 to southbound George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP) (Exit 43) will also be closed and detoured from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. the next morning on the same dates.

08/15/2025

Ramp from northbound George Washington Memorial Parkway to southbound I-495 will be closed and detoured beginning Sunday night, Aug. 17; Motorists should expect delays

FAIRFAX, VA - Overnight triple lane closures are scheduled to occur on northbound and southbound I-495 (the Capital Beltway) between the American Legion Memorial Bridge and Dulles Corridor Interchange, for construction work on the new Georgetown Pike Bridge in McLean, starting on or about Monday night, Aug. 18 and continuing Monday through Saturday nights for approximately two weeks.