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Last Updated: Jul 28th, 2008 |
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Hopewell, Virginia consists of approximately 11 square miles at the
confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers. Home to major
industry with freight arriving by water, commercial trucking via the
interstate highway system along our western boundary and served by two
railroads providing commercial freight service to move commodities such
as coal, metals, chemicals, and merchandise. You can be sure
goods and services are constantly moving throughout our City.
Roadways
We work with the Virginia Department of Transportation on various
transportation improvements to balance heavy commercial traffic with
our additional daily urban traffic volumes such as with CMAQ, which
stands for Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality which are projects
that relate directly to relieving traffic congestion by adjusting or
adding travel lanes, and making signalization improvements and URBAN
projects which are designed to fund maintenance, operation and
construction improvements to Virginia's transportation system.
Including Hopewell's approximate 130 centerline miles.
For information on road improvement projects contact the City
Engineer at (804) 541-2319.
All street maintenance is performed by the Department of Public
Works. For information regarding Traffic Signals, Pot Holes,
Railroad Crossings, Street Lights, Pavement, Curbing and Sidewalks
repairs, please refer to their pages.
Railways
The City has 17 centerline miles of rail lines owned and operated by
CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Corporation railroads which
include 22 signalized and non-signalized grade crossings.
Waterways
Although no commercial ports are operated within Hopewell, the James
River, adjacent to Hopewell has a 25-foot deep channel to the Port of
Richmond (20 miles to north), with weekly shipments from the Ports of
Hampton Roads (75 miles to east). Two recreational marinas, one
privately operated and the other one operated by the city are located
along the Appomattox River. Hopewell is also equipped to provide
river fire and rescue.
Pedestrian
Recreational trails to include pedestrian, and bikeways are also an important part of our continual transportation investment.
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