Press Releases

Groups Ask Federal Judge to Order Reevaluation of I-81 Plan

April 6, 2009- Case exposes effort by agencies to make it impossible for landowners and local officials to offer and win less damaging alternative solutions.

Groups Seek Summary Judgment in I-81 Suit

October 18, 2008- The motion would require that VDOT consider alternatives like spot highway safety improvements and increased diversion of freight traffic from trucks to rail - options that are less costly and destructive than widening I-81

National, State and Regional Citizens Groups Join Suit To Block Massive I-81 Widening

February 15, 2008- Seven citizens’ organizations Thursday joined a federal lawsuit to block plans to widen I-81 to eight or more lanes throughout most of western Virginia.

Valley Resident and Citizens Groups File Suit To Block I-81 Tolls and Excessive Widening

December 17, 2007- A Shenandoah County resident and a coalition of conservation groups working in the northern Shenandoah Valley filed suit in federal district court to prevent VDOT and the FHWA from implementing a plan to widen I-81 and impose tolls.

Citizens Groups Join Shenandoah County To Block I-81 Tolls & Widening

October 15, 2007- A coalition of citizens groups joined Shenandoah County in calling on Gov. Kaine and transportation officials to halt plans to toll and widen I-81 and to reconsider rail freight and other options to ease traffic and increase safety.