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construction and reconstruction projects.
He said the department had tightened up on overhead and administrative expenses, but that such action alone would not solve the problem. In the past 41 months, employment in the department statewide has been reduced from 12,865 to 10,962, a decline of 1,903.
Under manpower projections based on current revenue sources, the number of employees in the department would fall to approximately 7,600 in fiscal year 1987-88, and most of them would be assigned to maintenance work.
Such a continued personnel reduction, if it occurs, would make it “extremely difficult" to re-staff the department later to administer any significant construction or reconstruction program, he said.
In developing the proposed six-year program, the department asked local governments to identify their highest priority road and bridge needs, prior to fund allocation public hearings last sprino^and also asked operato^^of local public trMl^f systems for information as to their financial needs. Thus, the department said. the program reflects local as well as state assessments of the situation.
(Rappahannock's local officials gave top priority to the four-laning of Route 211 between Washington and Sperryville. This project does not appear on the list supplied by the highway department however.)
Funding proposed under the new program would:
—Keep intact the state’s ability to match all available federal funds.
—Insure enough money to maintain existing highways and bridges.
— Develop 52 miles of interstate routes, 12 arterial network bypasses of cities and towns, and 53 miles of rural arterial highway sections.
—Reconstruct 250 miles of the primary system.
—Finance 144 urban Street improvement projects in 51 cities and large towns.
—Continue an improvement program on the secondary system.
—Construct 562 new bridges to replace obsolete structures, including 63 on the primary system and 499 on the secondary system.
—Strenghten or widen 13
88.3%