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super highways. But we need it on these rural roads just to get to our homes. That road is really bad. The road is so narrow, there isn’t your own side— there’s only the middle!”
Robert Frazer said the hard surface on Route 628 between Flint Hill and Washington, the Fodderstack Road, has broken down along some shoulders, and that ditches are filled and culverts overflow during rains.
He was especially critical of the one-way bridge at the outskirts of Washington. Askew told him the department has acquired the steel for replacing this bridge, and is now awaiting sufficient funds to erect it.
(Ollie Atkins, who was former President Nixon’s official White House photographer, was present in the audience, and Chairman Pete Luke asked him if he had anything to say about the roads. Atkins said he was present just as an observor, but he thought the Highway Department had done a fine job of patching up potholes on Fodder stock Road. He had no complaints.)
ROGER BATCHELDERof Amissville said he was thankful that 637 had been widened, but he thought it now needed to be hard surfaced. Ed Huffstedler agreed, noting that dust control is also needed on this road.
Marshall Burke of Woodville asked that a few places along Route 620 be widened—not the whole stretch of dead-end road, but just a few places so people could pass.
Carson Johnson supported Burke’s point, noting also that a culvert is defective, with a sixfoot drop^off on one end. “You could slaughter a whole busload of children if it went over that bank,” he warned.
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