The Virginia Department of Transportation won’t begin to take steps to relieve the consistently snarled traffic at the Gainesville interchange until November 2007. The interchange is complicated by railroad tracks, a massive shopping center and service stations opening onto Route 29.

VDOT officials reported the agency has the money to relocate the 75 businesses that dump into the main connector for people from Warrenton who work in the District. However, the relocation efforts, also called right of way, one of the first steps in the project, must wait until all of the designs are finalized and approved, said Dennis Morrison, VDOT district administrator.

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