February 6: Road Bumps (Style Weekly)
February 6, 2013
Where the state-owned Powhite Extension ends and the locally owned Powhite Parkway begins offers a stark contrast in how to manage and maintain state roads.
On a typical weekday morning, you get in your car for the commute from western Chesterfield County to your downtown Richmond office. As always, your car shakes and your coffee sloshes from the potholes and uneven pavement on the Powhite Parkway. You mutter while you pay the tolls. Yet after 10.4 miles, you notice that the drive suddenly ...