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Odd Fellows Road in Lynchburg. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has put the project in the state’s six-year transportation plan in hopes of giving industrial businesses along Odd Fellows Road direct access to the U.S. 460/U.S. 29 corridor, the major arterial highways leading in and out of Lynchburg, both east and west and north and south. Liberty could benefit because it owns all the land for a four-mile stretch along the southside of the U.S. 460/U.S. 29 corridor from Wards Road on the west to Campbell Avenue on the east. Liberty could sell some of the land to support businesses that crop up around the proposed interchange. The project is expected to be one mile long and cost $30.5 million. It could be under construction as early as July 2014.
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The new pedestrian tunnel connecting the Liberty University campus to Wards Road opened on Jan. 20. The tunnel was built to accommodate the needs of the nearly 7,000 students who live on campus, giving them easy and safe access to restaurants and stores along the busiest corridor in the City of Lynchburg. Pictured at top right is the entrance on the Wards Road side. From campus, the tunnel is accessed from a walkway across from Residence Hall 8 and from the intersection at Reber-Thomas Drive. Access from behind the Vines Center will not be available until later this fall, due to construction planned for the Vines Center and the new Jerry Falwell Library. A fence (top left) has been built near the railroad tracks on the Liberty campus to prevent students from crossing.
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