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Rep. John O. Marsh, Jr., said here today that “every practicable effort should be exerted to complete the Interstate Highway System within the next few years, in order that we not fall dangerously behind the pace of growth in safe, highspeed, highway needs”. “Even the unlikely completion of most of the planned network by the original 1972 deadline would leave many existing road-improvement requirements unmet,” he warned.
The 7 th District Congressman was a luncheon speaker at Ingleside Resort in connection with ceremonies dedicating the Staunton area link of Interstate 81.
Marsh praised Virginia highway planners and noted that “a similar level of careful, imaginative planning can assure to communities affected by superhighway routings their fair and substantial shares of the economic growth these roads will produce”.
“In our Valley of Virginia, new thousands of travelers are being given convenient access to one of the most beautiful and historic regions of the Nation,” he commented; “and the communities which do the most energetic jobs of making these visitors aware of our scenic, economic and human resources will reap rich rewards in business development and civic advancement.”
Marsh noted that the Interstate Highway System was being funded primarily from a special highway-user excise tax trust fund, but he added that “State revenues continue to play a most important part in the financing of road improvements generally”.
“When we marvel at the extension of the Interstate System in Virginia, we should not lose sight of the remarkable progress made in recent years in the upgrading of the regular primary highway system of the Commonwealth,” he said.
“While the person behind the steering wheel remains the major agent for or against highway safety, road design advances have done much to improve the chances of the careful driver to reach his destination without accident,” Marsh commented.
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