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lravel on Virginias major highways continued down in Feburary, with a 2.24 percent drop from the same month of 1979.

It was the ninth consecutive month that travel declined, according to the Virginia Department of

Highways and Transportation.

Again, out-of-state passenger cars led the decline with a drop of 6.1 percent compared to February, 1979, with travel by all passenger cars down 1.4 percent. Virginia passenger car travel was down less than 1 percent.

Commercial vehicle travel decreased 4.3 percent from the corresponding month in 1979. The travel analysis was

93.0%