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RESIDENT Highway Engineer Don Askew joined the Supervisors at their table for the annual hearing on Rappahannock’s secondary road system. His report to the citizens who showed up to complain about inadequate roads was not optimistic.
Fifty-five per cent of last year’s $510,000 budget for the 220 miles of county secondary roads was spent on maintenance, said Askew. This year, an extremely hard spring thaw caused unusually severe break-ups, he noted. Repairs and improvements would depend on the funds forthcoming from the state and Askew wasn’t sure what the level of those funds would be.
“The $20 million needed for road repair in flood ravaged Southwest Virginia will affect the money available to Rappahannock. I hate to be pessimistic, but 1 don’t expect a great amount of funds for road improvements.’’ Askew added that a “no-loss’’provision governing state funds stipulated that Rappahannock wouldn’t receive less than the amount the county got the previous year. < Bill Baldwin from Amissville asked that the Highway Department consider paving Route 637 since recent traffic counts indicated 70 vehicles per day used the road.
Askew noted that under current criteria, the state will pave a road if vehicular traffic exceeds 50 per day but added that there
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