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the arterial program on ached ule toward 1975 completion, and at the same time accelerated improvements on tiie regular primary, secondary and urban highway systems.
While the major portion of the state’8 current $309 million construction program iron interstate highways, where federal funds are paying 90 percent 6l the cost, the Department is stressing and advancing the arterial program. With the interstate system, the two networks will form one giant web of divided through and connecting highways extending from the Eastern Shore to, the Kentucky border and from North Carolina and Tennessee to the Maryland line. The arterial highway mileage put under construction since the beginning in 1964 includes 38 miles on US 29 in the Piedmont, 28 miles on US 13 on the Eastern Shore, 22 miles on US 23 in Southwest Virginia, 14 miles on US 19 in the Southwest, 14 miles on US 17 in Eastern Virginia, 24 miles on US 58, which crosses Southside Virginia, 31 miles on US 360 between Richmond and Danville, 25 miles On US 460 between Petersburg and Roanoke, and 21 miles on US 460 between Christiansburg and Grundy. Shorter sections have been put under way on US 360 between Richmond and Warsaw, US 220 north and south of Martinsville, US 301 north of Bowling Green, US 522 north of Winchester, US 211
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