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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
fir Re*. Burr P. Harrison
Washington—The 13th Annual Virginia Highway Conference held at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, kept roads in the news last week. Three Federal Agencies _the- Bureau of Public Roads, Forest Service aijd Army Engineers......joined with State, county r->»^d municipal officials and private 'if industry in contributing to the cpn/ ference program, thus highlrghting ( the major role the Federal Gov' emment is playing today in the road-building drama. The current national highway program has been likened in magnitude by some writers to building 60 Panama Canals. The plan is to build, in 14 years or so, a network of 41,000 miles of highway able to handle safely the volume of traffic expected to move over the routes involved in 1975. Of these 41,000 miles o( superhighways, Virginia is listed to build 1,066 miles—987 classified as rural and 79 as urban. According to Bureau of Public Roads figures, as of October 20, only about 15 miles of non-toll superhighway in V i r gi n i a had been completed in the current program to the full standards set for the Interstate System—the standards intended to keep a road adequate through 1975, assuming proper maintenance. An addition, the Richmond-Petersburg turnpike, although a toll road, is considered acceptable as 38 miles of Interstate superhighway, and another 86 miles of free road is regarded as adequate to qualify as superhighway for today’s traffic volume, although not meeting the Federal criteria for 1975. -
The Bureavf of Public Roads figures showed, however, that 85 more miles were under construe
57.3%