Virginia has obligated every dollar in the $694.5 million it received for transportation projects from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the federal stimulus funds package. It beat the deadline by six days, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

VDOT released a comprehensive list of the 128 stimulus projects yesterday, which had to be approved by the Federal Highway Administration. Read the list of projects approved by the Commonwealth Transportation Board here,and the list of projects approved by local Metropolitan Planning Organizations (ours is the Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization) here.

It made repairing structurally deficient bridges and deficient pavement a priority, along with projects that reduced traffic congestion.

Virginia was able to stretch its stimulus projects a little further than expected. It initially obligated all the money to more than 100 projects back in February, but received construction bids that were low enough on multiple projects that additional money was available to complete some extra projects, according to VDOT.

So what did we get in the Fredericksburg area? To recap:

- $25.2 million to widen State Route 3 between Chewning Lane/Rutherford Drive and Gordon Road.

- $10.1 million to build the second phase of the Spotsylvania Courthouse Bypass (which will be called the Lake Anna Parkway) from the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and $1.3 million from FAMPO.

- $4.4 million to replace a bridge over the CSX Corp. railroad tracks on State Route 630/Courthouse Road in Stafford.

- $10.2 million for new asphalt on Interstate 95 throughout the Fredericksburg area.

- $2.6 million to design and replace several smaller bridges throughout the Fredericksburg area