Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-Va., secured more than $2.5 million to help build a “gateway” to Prince William County and Quantico Marine Corps Base.
The money — from the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development — funds design work and preliminary construction on a traffic circle at Routes 1 and 619, Joplin Road, where the National Marine Corps Museum is being built, said Mary Springer, a Davis representative.
“It would serve as a gateway to Prince William and the Marine base,” said Tom Blaser, the county’s transportation chief.
The estimated $30 million project would have an elevated traffic circle to serve local, museum and Marine base traffic while Route 1 traffic would flow underneath the circle.
“It would be something like what you see at Dupont Circle,” said Sean Connaughton, Prince William County Board of Supervisors chair.
The model for the Marine Corps Memorial, commonly known as the Iwo Jima memorial, would become the circle’s centerpiece, he said. The statue now sits outside of Quantico’s gates.
