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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“Their cure is our problem,” contended Supervisor Nelson Lane after hearing reports that truck traffic on winding Route 522 in Rappahannock has at least quadrupled since Route 17 in Fauquier was closed to big rigs in November 1984.
According to Mr. Lane, the highway department didn’t solve a problem by closing the road in Fauquier, a move taken in response to public pressure following a spate of accidents. “They just shifted the location of the problem.”
“They should lift the ban on Route 17. Then we’d lose 70 percent of the truck traffic on Route 522,” said Supervisor Charles Estes.
“Or they should show us the same courtesy they showed the people in Fauquier County and close Route 522 to through trucks. Under the law, we’re all entitled to the same protection,” Mr. Lane insisted.
Flint Hill resident Hugo Sinnott put the truck issue before the board at Monday’s meeting. The Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation counted 45 tractor-trailer trucks per day going over Chester Gap Mountain on Route 522 in 1984, Mr. Sinnott reported. By spring of 1986, that number had more than doubled to 105 per day; by October,
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