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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Ncwi Staff Writer
In 1964, Virginia’s General Assembly decreed that Route 211, as part of the state’s arterial highway system, would be dual laned.
A quarter of a century later, it looks Idee that decree may finally be carried out.
John McCarthy, the Board of Supervisors’ administrative assistant, told the supervisors at their January meeting that Route 211 is scheduled to be four-laned from Washington to Speyryville over the next six years at a cost of $13 million. Plans call for the first construction contracts to be let in July 1989, with the project’s completion date expected in June 1992.
“Hot off the press, the final tentative allocation of funds” will put the parallel laning of Route 211 back on track, resident highway engineer Don Askew confirmed in a telephone interview Tuesday. The $13 million for the project comes from additional highway binding approved by the legislature and Gov. Gerald Baliles’ initiative on transportation, specifically the additional one-half cent sales tax which took effect Jan. 1, Mr. Askew said.
“This new source of funds appears to be relatively stable, and it will allow the department to proceed with projects that have been sitting on the drawing boards for many
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