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Plans for a Sperryville bypass have been “put on the back burner”, not abandoned, according to resident : highway engineer Don Askew. At the end of the stormy meeting last Thursday on the Route 1101 bridge closing, Askew briefly addressed the by-pass question.
He recalled that public hearings were held in the community in 1973 to consider the environmental aspects of three different bypass alignments: one through town, one north of town and a third crossing Ned Johnson’s property. Askew noted that the Virginia General Assembly had designated 211 as an arterial highway intended for four-laning. To date, plans have been improved for construction up to the north fork of the Thornton River, according to the resident engineer. He estimated completion date of the project would be between 1983 and 1985.
“The Sperryville by-pass is not a dead issue,” Askew continued. “Sometime in the( future, we have to hold a ' public hearing to determine what the public, wants ...We’re no further or closer (to construction) than we were in 1973.”
Askew added that the highway department had no plans to four-lane the existing three-lane section of ,
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