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budget being provided by the state’s matching share.
A total of $13,189,410 is expected as Virginia’s federal apportionment for the primary construction program, including arterial network projects, with $66,810,590 being provided for these systems by state road-user tax payments.
State funds likewise will supply the larger share of urban system construction money. The total for this system will include $15,393,754 from state sources and $8,029,451 in federal funds. The Commission pointed out that the urban system is confined to streets and highways within municipal limits, and the allocation for the system does not reflect the interstate, arterial and regular primary expenditures in the state’s broader urban areas.
Approximately half of all available funds are spent in these urban areas and approximately half in rural areas, the Commission said.
Besides the interstate, arterial, regular primary and urban allocations tentatively approved Thursday, $74 million was apportioned earlier this month to the state’s 42,000 mile secondary system for 1970-71.
Tentatively reported were 55,500 traffic deaths for the Nation during 1968. The death rate was set at 5.5 with Virginia given 5.1. California saw the most, 4,816, and Alaska the fewest, 73. Virginia was one of 12' states to show a decrease.
During the first 10 months of 1968, a Wisconsin blood testing program showed 65 percent of the drivers killed had been drinking and 48 percent had concentrations of .10 or more. In addition, 66 percent of the pedestrians over 16 had been drinking, with 37 percent having concentrations of .10 or more.
93.8%