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According to final allocations for construction and improvements to the secondary system announced
Transportation, Rappahannock will receive even less than the reduction anticipated by resident engineer Don Askew.
At the Rappahannock supervisors’ April road hearing. Askew projected that the county would get $207,000 in secondary funds, down $138,062 or 40 percent from 1980’s allocation. The highway department's announcement this week sets the final figure at $194,152, a 44 percent cut.
Along with the rest of Virginia, the county will get less money for construction and improvement projects and substantially more money for maintenance in the next fiscal year.
State law requires the department to give first attention to road and bridge maintenance in distribution of funds. The amount of funds set aside for maintenance is based on past experience and on standards set in the department’s maintenance management program.
Maintenance costs are increasing because of inflation and the gradually growing size and age of the highway system, and as a
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