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ing use of Virginia’s expanding interstate highway system. For example, vehicles travel ed an average of 6,681,570 miles a day on the 514 miles of interstate roads in use last year — some 12,990 travel miles for each mile of highway in the system. Recent completion of additional construction projects has boosted to more than 560 miles the interstate sections now in use in the Commonwealth, and engineers said that travel would continue to increase proportionately. In the 1966 study, the interstate system represented 6.6 per cent of the total mileageand carried 22.8 per cent of the total travel; Interstate 95, with only 1.6 j per cent of the road mileage,: accounted for 10 per cent of the! travel mileage. The study1 showed that 22 per cent of all out-of-state passenger cars and 23 per cent of the tractortrailers are now using 1-95. In addition, 1-495 (the Capital Beltway) now represents only .28 of 1 per cent of thei
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