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1,500 or more miles. Later, bids will be called for heavyduty asphalt resurfacing ' on several hundred miles of the more heavily traveled highways.

Virginia has more than 30,000 miles of hard surfaced secondary and primary highways, most of which require resurfacing about every five years to protect the road base as well as provide smooth surfaces. The work increases yearly as the hard surfaced secondary mileage increases Some 5,000 separate sections, ranging in length from a block or two in subdivisions, to 14 miles in rural areas, will be given new blacktop" surfaces.

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