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“The last count tnat we nave results from was 1972,” Askew said. “Another was done this spring, but we don’t have the results yet. The count in 1972 was 37 vehicles a day.”
“H.B., you’re familiar with that road,” Kilpatrick continued, and H.B. Wood nodded. “Theycutdown the trees, and dragged the ditches, but then the said ditches didn’t get pulled. The road is a disaster area. It looks like a tank trap. The banks have eroded and the said erosion filled in...”
“We were told that the people who lived on that road were going to work with us on that,” Askew said.
®What’s the cost going to be?” Kilpatrick asked; $55,000 he was told.
“And when’s it going to be finished?”
“We hope to finish it as soon as possible,” Askew said.
“What happened to the fencing?” Kilpatrick wanted to know. “You got started on that, but then you stopped.”
Askew said the road crews worked on it when they could, but had to be taken off that job and used for other projects, too. But it would get finished, he said.
“I wonder if it’s worth spending $55,000 on a 37 vehicle a day road?” Kilpatrick said.
“Okay, you’ve made your point. You two get together and discuss it,” Pete Luke told Kilpatrick and Askew.
“NOW, ON THIS Sperryville project. The Highway wrote me that the project has been deferred, that part of the road through and west of Sperryville, that is,” Luke said. “The article in the paper said that it had been postponed ‘until there is a dire need,’ but the official correspondence I got just says it’s been deferred. It doesn’t mention dire need.”
Luke wanted the Supervisors to go on record saying that whenever the project comes up again, they wanted a public hearing first. “We want them to get the voice of the people before anything’s done.”
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