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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock Staff Writer
Residents of the Flint Hill area are alarmed by what they see as a dangerous increase in the number of tractor-trailer trucks traveling Rt. 522 between Front Royal and Rt. 211 at Massie’s Corner. The citizens are organizing a “grass-roots” campaign to try to convince the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation to reconsider its refusal to ban through trucks on that road.
“We’re trying to do something before anyone else gets killed. The whole road is an accident waiting to happen . . . We’re trying to get everyone together - to get something done,” said Hugo Sinnott, who lives on Rt. 522 just outside Flint Hill.
“We’re trying to support the board (Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors, who requested a truck ban). It takes someone to work on this - I’m 100 percent behind it,” commented Peggy Clark, owner of the Comer Post restaurant in Flint Hill. Mrs. Clark added that most truckers do not observe the 35 mile per hour speed limit in Flint Hill, “especially at night.”
“We know the truckers have to make a living,” Mr. Sinnott said. “But we don’t want them or anyone else to get killed ... If they get hurt they may regret taking these shortcuts through the county. ”
The controversy began late in 1984 when the Highway Department, reacting to a series of serious accidents on Rt. 17 in FaUquier County, banned trucks on a ninemile stretch of that road between Marshall and Warrenton.
The result, according to many Rappahannock County residents, has been a sharp increase in the number of trucks plying the narrow, two-lane roads in this countv.
96.5%