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state’s secondary system. “If the support is there from the people of the 18th district for more roads, yes, I would support another increase.”
But first, Guest emphasized, the highway department’s Richmond offices “need to ‘skinny up’ some more.”
The only roads now being built in Virginia are those with federal participation, basically interstate and arterial roads, Guest said. “If we’re not building secondary roads, we certainly don’t need all those engineers and draftsmen. Cutting down on employees through attrition will give us some money...We need to look very carefully at every vacancy with an eye towards keeping it vacant.”
In addition, road specifications should be examined from the standpoint of “necessities rather than niceties,” Guest
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