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“The highways of this system must be designed in keeping with their importance as tbe backbone of the Nation’s highway systems. To this end, they must be desingated with control of access to insure their safety, permanence and utility and with flexibility to provide for possible future expansion. Two-lane highways should be designed so that passing of slowermoving vehicles can be accomplished with ease andsafety at practically all times. Divided highways should be designed as two separate one-way roads to take advantage of terrain and Other conditions for safe and relaxed driving, economy and pleasing appearance.”
I have been asked:
“Where are these new roads going to be located? Will they just widen the Valley Pike, for example or will they build an entirely new road paralleling it?”
The only possible answer, at the moment—and not. a very satisfactory one—is, “some df each”. Our Virginia Highway Department is on record as promising that the existing routes will be followed wherever it is practicable to bring them up to the Federal standards for the National Interstate System, but it is admitted that perhaps as much as half of the mileage earmarked for this system in Virginia will have to be relocated. That could mean moving
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