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ame. | However, Commissioner! Fugate said, the additional! $93 million will be required if the plan is to be carried out as scheduled — and as needed. The secondary system consists of 41,620 miles — four-i fifths of Virginia’s total higfr way mileage. As of January 1, the system included only 563 miles of unsurfaced roads. These were dead-end routes or facilities with extremely low traffic counts and serving only two or three dwellings. However, traffic volumes on the secondary roads are increasing steadily, and the roads are carrying a greater volume of heavy trucks. Growing industrialization and urbanization have brought about a considerable change in secondary highway requirements.
“The consolidation of farm operations, schools, etc., is resulting in the use of a greater number of large trucks and tractor-trailers for the delivery of necessary supplies and the movement of farm and timber products and minerals to market," the Commission’s report said. In 1946, vehlclesonthe secondary system traveled a
89.8%