Gov. Tim Kaine spoke out strongly Thursday against legislators who didn't approve new transportation funding during the special session.

Kaine told reporters, "I don't think I've ever seen a group work so hard to do nothing."

Even though new transportation funds did not become available, many road projects across the state and in the Valley still need that money.

Currently, there's no money available to begin construction of the Port Republic Road expansion, and this is impacting plans for the new Rockingham Memorial Hospital site.

The construction goal is to expand a stretch of Port Republic Road to a four lanes, with crossovers and left-turn lanes at major intersections. Traffic is expected to increase tremendously over the coming years. The hospital's managers are looking at alternate plans to make their site accessible.

Construction is well underway on the new RMH hospital, and they're planning to move in to the location in 2010, whether Port Republic Road is expanded or not.

"What we try to do in looking at the location is to find the one that most likely was going to be improved," says Dennis Coffman, director of facilities and planning and development for the hospital.

The Commonwealth Transportation Board presented its six-year plan recently, and the project is not fully funded now.

"Last year in the six-year plan, it was fully funded," says Sandy Myers, spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Transportation. "We had enough money to do the whole project. Now we've lost our construction money."

Following a special session on transportation in the General Assembly, $19 million is still needed for the construction phase of the project.

"It would be speculative to say exactly what would have happened with that money, but more than likely we would have seen some projects advance further in the Staunton district," says Myers, including Rockingham County in her list.

Officials at RMH say the ideal plan was to move ahead with the Port Republic Road construction. Instead, they'll be using funding for alternate, temporary plans. They'll coordinate traffic lights based on the two-lane road and widen Reservoir Street to create a new entrance.

"Unfortunately, there again, we would like to see the roads completed the way we all know they need to be at the end of the day," says Coffman.

Traffic along the stretch of the road is expected to double in about 20 years.

The funds are available for the phase of preparing for the expansion, but VDOT officials say money will have to shifted around without federal or state funds being available.

"Ff that does not get addressed, then it's a matter of taking money from one project and putting on another," says Myers.

In Harrisonburg, the lack of transportation funds has put projects on indefinite time lines as well. The Stone Spring Road and Erickson Avenue connector project is facing a $42 million shortfall.

Officials with VDOT say the funding shortfall will not impact upgrades to exit 247 along Interstate 81. The goal is to make it easier for people to merge onto the interstate going southbound.