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Dec 29, 2020 Dec 29, 2020 While neighboring West Virginia has made some progress in recent years on the construction of the Coalfields Expressway, at least in Raleigh and Wyoming counties, the future four-lane corridor has been largely stalled in neighboring Southwest Virginia. The Coalfields Expressway, also known as U.S. Route 121 in Virginia, is envisioned as a three-state project. The first section of the expressway recently opened to traffic in Raleigh County in West Virginia where the four-lane also has now been extended into neighboring Wyoming Count...

Dec 21, 2020 Vehicles drive down the Coalfields Expressway in Raleigh County in this 2019 file photo. BDT file photo LEBANON, Va. — A resolution stressing the importance of the Coalfields Expressway as “absolutely critical to the economic development and diversification of” the far Southwest Virginia region was adopted Tuesday by the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority Board (CFX Authority). According to the resolution, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the federal government are being urged to “do all they can to cause the completio...