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To The Editor
(Continued from Page 4) for public comment. On the contrary, that’s all the more reason to keep the issue in the open.
At Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, I heard the Chairman say “The landfill (issue) is not on the agenda.” That was his reason for not allowing public discussion. Referring to earlier attempts to purchase the tract with no prior public notice, Mr. Lane told us, “We weren’t trying to work behind the bushes or anything.” Despite these assurances, the supervisors proceeded to work behind closed doors, and took decisive /action 0n the landfill issue.
Please don’t wait till the land is condemned to give us an opportunity to be heard. That may turn out to be an expensive mistake. So far, all you have told us is that we didn’t need to be heard, implying that you had no plans. Any tenable plans for a landfill, and any suitable location, will stand up to public scrutiny. What are you afraid of?
LYTTELTON W. WOOD
Washington
Toll Road Traffic Up
In just more than three weeks, traffic flow and revenues from the <Dulles Toll Road have jumped dramatically.
» Virginia highway department officials reported last week that since the , 13-mile highway opened Oct. 1, traffic has increased 10.6 percent. The figure i» the result of a count taken in a 24hyur period from Oct. 11-12 on the eastbound lanes of the road west of the Route 7 exit.
About 26,000 cars were counted during the period.
84.7%