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A near miss
FROM TIME TO TIME, it’s comforting to , remember that things could be worse. And so it could, for Rappahannock County, a thought generated this week by release of a massive report dealing with a situation in a neighboring county. . 1 The report comprised an “environmental impact statement” on the projected 1-66 extension through Fauquier County, linking presently finished legs of this interstate in Prince William and Warren Counties. What that highway—with its six proposed interchanges—might do to a large section of Fauquier County now zoned “conservation,”.has been the subject of a great deal of concern on the part of public officials and citizens alike, and the “impact statement” was drawn up in response to their concern.
But what struck us in reading through the document was the re-statement of a point which many people in this area may have forgotten. Back in 1958, when planning first began for 1-66, it was by no means a sure thing that it would follow its present cours£, parallelling Route 55. Two other alternatives were studied, one following Route 50 in Loudoun County, and the other—you may have remembered by this time—along Route 211 in Rappahannock County!
LOOKING EASTWARD AT what 1-66 has already stimulated in Fairfax and Prince William Counties, and sharing our Fauquier neighbors’ concern, it is with a sigh of relief that we can reflect now ' that Rappahannock’s problems could indeed be far more complicated than they are now.D
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