Fairfax Co. leaders asking VDOT to explain its response to last week’s snow – WTOP News

Over a week after this winter’s first significant snowfall, Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors detailed plans to press Virginia’s Department of Transportation for information on what went wrong during the agency’s response. VDOT says they’re reviewing the matter and will continue working with all of their local partners.  Over a week after this winter’s first…

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In Virginia, crews work to make neighborhood streets ‘passable’ instead of clear – WTOP News

Some Northern Virginian residents have expressed frustration that residential streets in their neighborhoods are icy or still covered with snow. The state’s Department of Transportation , however, says those streets just have to be considered “passable” by their standards. An icy road in Virginia that passes the state’s Department of Transportation’s “passable” standard.(WTOP/Scott Gelman) An…

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