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can sympathize with people . . . but I don’t think it’s too practical to make an effort to prohibit trucks. I’m encouraging a cooperative effort to up the priority to widen Rt. 522 or complete the Rt. 17 project,” Rappahannock’s representative in the State Senate reported.
Reportedly, the widening of Rt. 17 to four lanes, which would enable the truck ban to be lifted, is at the top of the Culpeper district’s priority list. The revenue measures passed during the state legislature’s special session on transportation, held last month in Richmond, assured that additional highway monies are available. But the specific funding authorization for the completion of that project has not yet been made.
John M. Wray, Jr., Chief Engineer for the Department of Highways, told the Rappahannock News in a telephone interview last week from Mr. Pethtel’s office in Richmond that he had ordered another survey of truck traffic on Rt. 522 “to be done right away - within the next couple of weeks.” Mr. Wray said that he had received reports that truck traffic had “doubled and tripled recently at night,” but that the department’s records did not inContinued
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