Editing James City County, Virginia (section)

=== U.S. Route 60 Grove-Lee Hall traffic ===
For several years in the early 21st century, a major project of James City County officials and Supervisor Bruce Goodson, who represents the Roberts Magisterial District, has been to improve [[U.S. Route 60 in Virginia|U.S. Route 60]] between Grove and Newport News to provide better (faster and more direct) access to [[Interstate 64 in Virginia|Interstate 64]] from the industrial sites in Grove which generate a considerable volume of truck traffic, and reduce the same on the existing roadway.<ref>{{cite web|title=County receives Rt. 60 proposal to design-build |url=http://www.james-city.va.us/news/news_details-a.php?RECORD_KEY(news_results)=news_id&news_id(news_results)=293 |publisher=James City County, Virginia |access-date=December 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927143315/http://www.james-city.va.us/news/news_details-a.php?RECORD_KEY%28news_results%29=news_id&news_id%28news_results%29=293 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |date=November 6, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Access for the industrial traffic to I-64 currently requires a drive of about {{convert|4|mi|km}} in either direction on two-laned sections of U.S. 60 at non-highway speeds through residential areas, sharing the road with local traffic and [[school bus]]es serving either the James River Elementary School's county-wide magnet program or alternatively, the large elementary school in the [[Lee Hall, Virginia|Lee Hall]] community in neighboring Newport News, as well as school buses for other schools going into and out of neighborhoods along the route in both communities.

On a historical note, a very similar roads issue was earlier visited in the 1930s, when the current parallel [[Virginia State Route 143|State Route 143]] ([[Merrimack Trail]]) was built as part of a four-laned through-route alternative to U.S. 60 for increasing volumes of east–west through traffic in the area. Once again, options have been chosen so that the two-laned bucolic nature of Route 60 through the Grove and Lee Hall communities to be preserved without the major impact a widening project would have upon these historic communities.

==== Skiffe's Creek Connector ====
[[File:Skiffe's Creek Reservoir at border of James City County and Newport News, Virginia.jpg|300px|right|thumb|''Skiffe's Creek Reservoir of the Newport News Waterworks, located at border of James City County and the City of Newport News, Virginia'']]
In June 2007, Virginia's [[Commonwealth Transportation Board]] approved a major portion of the funding needed for the U.S. Route 60 relocation project. The relocated divided highway will begin on its western end near the current intersection of Blow Flats Road and, on a new alignment, will cross through the Greenmount Industrial Park to reach the Newport News city limits at the western edge of [[Skiffe's Creek Reservoir]], part of the [[Newport News Waterworks]]. The portion of relocated roadway planned in James City County is being described as the Skiffe's Creek Connector.

A connection to [[Virginia State Route 143|State Route 143]] and enhanced access to Interstate 64 nearby is also under consideration.

==== Newport News section ====
At the Newport News border, a new crossing of [[Skiffe's Creek]] will be built, and the remainder of the roadway will continue on a new alignment and effectively bypass the two lane portion of U.S. Route 60 through the historic Lee Hall community, rejoining the current highway near the cloverleaf intersection of Fort Eustis Boulevard near the entrance to [[Fort Eustis]], where there is access four-laned access close by to exit 250 of Interstate 64 as well as an extant four-laned section of U.S. Route 60 which begins there and extends to the east as [[Warwick Boulevard]].
In a separate project, portions of Warwick Boulevard east of Fort Eustis in Newport News are currently being widened to six lanes.