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EVERY year, a single secondary road seems to inspire the most, comments at the annual road hearing conducted by the Board of Supervisors for the Highway Department. This year, it was Rkppahannock secondary Route 622, as it traverses Gid Brown and Harris Hollows.
There were other roads that got mentioned, too—to be sure. And one citizen at the hearing denounced all secondary roads in the county in general, for being inadequate and poorly maintained. But it was Route 622 which was the subject of a majority of the complaints.
Roger Fincham led off the parade, singling out what he thought were improper maintenance procedures on the road.
“You use population along roadways for setting your order of priority for maintenance,’’ he told Resident Highway Engineer Don Askew, “but I’m not sure that’s always fair. We have a low population, but high traffic from tourists and loggers.’’
He outlined a number of shortcomings on the road: Collapsed culverts, stretches where it is too narrow for two vehicles to pass; improper ditching causing road washouts; terrible dust problems duripg dry spells; scraping without the addition of gravel to low places, &c.
“I’VE walked home four times in the past two years, and sometimes just because it rained,’’ said Fincham.
James F. Massie confirmed Fincham’s remarks. “Route 622 has to be the worst road in the county,” he said, agreeing that maintenance is done improperly on the road.
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