Overnight flagging set for Ashland Road work near Amazon, Luck Stone

Overnight flagging was set for Ashland Road in front of Amazon and Luck Stone, putting Route 623 traffic in the middle of an active construction corridor where freight trucks and local drivers were already sharing narrowed lanes. Crews were scheduled to direct traffic June 9 and 10 from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m., and drivers were told to slow down and follow flagger directions.

The work sits inside the Rockville Opportunity Corridor, a 3.5-mile business development district in eastern Goochland County that the county says is being built out with roadway and infrastructure upgrades. Those improvements include traffic lights, entrance roads and turn lanes intended to reduce congestion and improve safety along Ashland Road.

At 2022 Ashland Road, the new Amazon facility is described by Goochland County as an e-commerce fulfillment center serving Goochland, Richmond and surrounding areas. Planned frontage work there includes widening Ashland Road at the entrance, building a facility entrance road, installing a stop light and relocating the Luck Stone entrance to align with Project Rocky so both sites can be reached more safely.

The county says the Amazon frontage project is fully funded by Amazon and was set to run in phases from March 2025 through an anticipated April 2026 completion. County project pages also say work continues along Ashland Road in front of Amazon and Luck Stone, with closed shoulders, lane closures and trucks turning on and off the road, all of which can slow freight movement and make short local trips take longer.

The broader Rockville Opportunity Corridor roadway program began in spring 2025 and is expected to continue through summer 2029. A separate Ashland Road/I-64 interchange project is planned for 2027, with a fixed completion date of August 2029, and will include a diverging diamond interchange funded by the Central Virginia Transportation Authority, the Commonwealth Transportation Board and VDOT.

Goochland County says the Transportation Department serves as the liaison between residents and VDOT, which maintains the public roads in the county. For drivers moving through the corridor, the least disruptive window is outside the 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. flagging period, when the work zone is not expected to be moving traffic in alternating lanes.