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The planned commercial development of Flatwoods will increase the safety hazards already created on the dual lane highway by traffic from the Co-op’s tractor-trailers and the school buses arriving at and leaving from the elementary school and high school, according to Miller. He maintained that without a strong move in support of four-laning from local government, the expansion of the highway won’t get underway any time in the near future. Luke agreed to write to the highway department on behalf of the supervisors and also requested a letter from the planning commission in support of four-laning the Flatwoods stretch.
According to information provided the Rappahannock News by Virginia highway commissioner Harold King, parallel lanes from 2.29 miles east of the Covington River to 0.16 mile west of the North Fork Thornton River aren’t scheduled for construction until at least the late 1980’s.
The section was approved
the highway commission in June, 1974. and the project has received $550,000 in allocations to date. No funds, however, have been earmarked for any work in 198081. The four-laning of 211 through Flatwoods “depends
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