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“Although traffic conditions along this two-lane facility are not improving to any extent, we feel a truck ban is not appropriate at the present time due to the low number of truck related accidents,” the commissioner’s letter stated. Mr. Pethtel said that he agreed with Mr. Guest’s suggestion for a pamphlet to be placed at truck stops advising truckers of the preferred truck routes through this area.
Rt. 522 has been the scene of seven truck accidents during the last four years, with the figures indicating an upward trend. There was one truck-related accident in 1983, one in 1984, two in 1985 and three so far in 1986 (including the double fatality).
A second letter from Commissioner Pethtel, dated August 28, advised Mr. Guest that the Highway Department had designed and placed brochures in truck stops in Ashland, Doswell, Fredericksburg, Warrenton, Toms Brook, Clearbrook and Mount Jackson, and had sent copies to the Virginia Trucking Association in Richmond.
“There is a great deal of interest in making this information available to the truckers,” Mr. Pethtel’s letter stated. “They (the brochure’s designers) felt it’s best not to mention US 522 at all, with the hopes that truckers will use US 29 exclusively to reach Interstate 66.”
‘‘I’m well aware of the problem,” said State Senator Kevin G. Miller, of Harrisonburg. “I’ve received quite a bit of correspondence, but to be honest I don’t really know any immediate solution.
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