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ANDREW KOZIK said he didn’t ‘see the purpose of a four-lane road through town that has to end n three lanes.” He added that here seemed to be some “discrepancy” in the Highway Dejartment’s traffic surveys. “In 1970 the traffic on the road by your own count was 3,422 vehicles a day and at that time you projected that it would be 6,000 a day by 1995. But by your own count, the traffic had dropped to 2,000 vehicles a day in 1971. So your estimate for 1993—for some reason you dropped two years— is 4,500.
“The traffic is going down because people are coming out here for a pleasure drive,” Kozik said, “not to find an expressway to the valley. I think improving the twolane road is the right idea. Let’s preserve a little bit of Americana, while there’s still some left.”
Lester Deal, who said he owned property along the road and was a member of the Sperryville Community Group, also favored “an improved two-lane road.” He suggested that the speed limit stay at 35 m.p.h. all the way to the park. “Making it two lanes instead of four would save money,
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