Shirley Receives HCCA Infrastructure Award for the Boundary Channel Drive at I-395 Project

Congratulations to the Boundary Channel Drive at I-395 Interchange Shirley Project Team for receiving the Heavy Construction Contractors Association (HCCA) Infrastructure Award in the $10M–20M category!

This VDOT design-build Project reconfigured the existing full cloverleaf interchange of Boundary Channel Drive and Interstate 395 in Arlington County, Virginia, to a partial cloverleaf interchange by eliminating redundant loop ramps and building two new roundabouts on either side of Interstate 395. Positioned between the Pentagon and Reagan National Airport, and just across the Potomac River from the District of Columbia, the Project introduced critical upgrades to an interchange that had been neglected since the 1960s.

In addition to fully reconstructing Boundary Channel Drive, the Project removed and replaced the existing Interchange Ramps, permanently deleting a prior ramp to I-395 Southbound that had been linked to a history of unsafe vehicle movements. On either side of Boundary Channel Drive, the Project constructed a new asphalt shared use path and a concrete sidewalk, improving accommodations for pedestrians and bicyclists through the largely urban corridor. The Project’s shared-use-path became the missing link of the Mt. Vernon Trail, connecting to two existing dead-end sections of trail, one to the north at the National Park Service Boundary and one to the south at the entrance to the recently constructed Long Bridge Aquatics and Fitness Center.