A new map of the latest plans to upgrade U.S. Route 460 indicates a bypass to the north of Windsor would include several intersections to connect the town to the new road.

Driving west on the proposed 11-mile new segment of the road, from Suffolk to just west of Windsor, the first intersection inside Isle of Wight County would be with the existing 460 just across the city-county line, where one end of the northern bypass of Windsor would begin.

Other Isle of Wight intersections are indicated at routes 603 (Shiloh Drive), 600 (Deer Path Trail) and 258 (Courthouse Highway). The bypass would then connect to the existing Route 460, and that road would be improved — including a new bridge across the flood-prone Blackwater River — through a point just west of Zuni, which would mark the western end of the 17-mile project.

After Virginia Department of Transportation officials outlined the new plans last Monday, omitting finer details such as intersections, officials in Windsor and Isle of Wight County were unpleasantly surprised.

They’d been counting on an alignment to the south of Windsor, saying they planned development in and around the town — including the county’s Shirley T. Holland Commerce Park — with that in mind.

VDOT environmental project manager Angela Deem said configuration of intersections would be addressed in the new road’s upcoming environmental impact statement, which, pending a green light on the project from the Commonwealth Transportation Board — possibly in February — would be pursued concurrently while applying to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for an environmental permit.

Monday’s was a joint announcement with the Corps, which would likely approve the permit after having developed the plan with VDOT and the Federal Highway Administration.

An interstate-standard toll road for the 55 miles between Suffolk and Petersburg was originally pursued, but the McAuliffe administration pulled the plug shortly after coming to power and discovering $300 million had been spent, despite significant wetlands concerns and lack of a permit from the Corps.

After McAuliffe hit the reset button, Deem said, officials examined all of the suggestions and recommendations listed among the original five options under consideration for the road.

“That recommendation came from all the recommendations stated and disclosed” in the supplemental environmental impact statement, she said of the recommended northern bypass.

But, Deem added, there was no collaboration with Windsor or Isle of Wight on the final bypass recommendation.

“We worked with the Federal Highway Administration and the Corps of Engineers on the recommendation,” she said, nothing that critical factors in the decision were keeping the cost down and reducing wetlands impacts.

“They have just given us an indication this may be an option they are able to consider for a permit,” Deem said.

Deem said one of the planned intersections on the eastern side of Windsor is “fairly close to their industrial park.”

If the plans move ahead, VDOT could explore improving Route 258 from the new road to its future link with a new section of the park — about a mile — as a separate project, Deem said.

But town and county officials have said this would send too much heavy traffic past a new school, mobile home parks, a nursing home and current and future residential subdivisions. The results could be disastrous, they say.

With CTB approval, VDOT will organize town hall-style meetings, along with the hearings required with a new environmental study, Deem said. The Corps would be required to carry out its own public consultation with a permit application.