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ne commission scheduled these hearings tor the Salem, Bristol, Staunton and Lynchburg highway districts for 9 a.m. June 24 at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, and for the Richmond, Fredericksburg, Culpeper and Suffolk districts for 9 a.m. June 25 in the Department of Highways auditorium at 1221 East Broad Street in Richmond.
The Commission said Thursday that traffic needs represented the controlling factor in selecting projects for allocations in the coming year, with consideration also given to specific requests received by the Commission and the Department’s engineers from Individual citizens, local governing bodies and other local organizations.
The Commission reaffirmed that available funds would be insufficient to meet all needs, and said that the amount available for the arterial program would not be enough to put that network back on course toward scheduled completion of its financing in 1975. The arterial development has slipped behind schedule because of increased costs brought on by inflation and higher design standards.
As in the past, federal funds represent 90 per cent of interstate system costs, while by far the larger portion of funds for the other systems will come from state sources.
Virginia’s federal interstate apportionment is expected to amount to $91,201,544, with the remainder of the interstate
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73.5%