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The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority has it awarded with Long Bridge Rail Partners the design-build partner contract for the Long Bridge Project-South package, according to a Jan. 16 news release.
Long Bridge Rail Partners is a joint venture between Pittsburgh-based Trumbull, S&B Construction and Fay, as well as York, Pennsylvania-based Wagman Heavy Civil. The lead designer of the south package is the STV engineering firm of New York.
The entire $2.3 billion project will allow for the separation of passenger and freight rail traffic on the 1.8-mile rail corridor between Washington, DC and Arlington, Virginia, and ease one of the largest rail traffic bottlenecks in the east coast It represents the largest of the Commonwealth’s Transforming Rail efforts in Virginia and is a key milestone for its second wave of Virginia Railway Express expansion.
VPRA divided the main work of the Long Bridge project into north and south packages. He granted the Northern package to a Skanska/Flatiron joint venture in December 2023. The agency also chose a team from Flatiron and Herzog to build the Franconia-Springfield Bypass.
“The selection of Long Bridge Rail Partners completes the team that will build the largest of our Transforming Rail projects in Virginia, which will significantly change the way Virginians travel,” VPRA Executive Director DJ Stadtler said in the statement.
The work on the southern package involves the construction of a new two-track railway bridge and an adjacent pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Potomac River, according to a Wagman news release. The team will also build new retaining walls and embankments for the Parkway, as well as a new defense system within the Potomac River Navigation Channel.
The Long Bridge Rail Partners team will take the project to the final design phase and incorporate “innovative alternative technical concepts,” according to the VPRA statement. Heavy construction on the southern parcel is expected to begin in the fall of 2026 and is expected to be substantially complete by 2030.
