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years,” the resident engineer explained. “Route 211 is one of those projects.”
As part of the state’s arteriaT highway system, Route 211’s widening was supposed to have been finished “a long, long time ago,” Mr. Askew conceded. “We had started buying rights-of-way, then the crunch came.” Oil shortages led to shortfalls in gas tax revenue as maintenance costs skyrocketed, Mr. Askew recalled. This spiraling squeeze put construction projects on the back burner. “It was bad timing,” he added.
The new tentative schedule calls for right-of-way acquisition to start again in fiscal year 1988-89. Construction on the first section, from Washington to the Covington River, is expected to begin in the summer of 1989 and continue for 18 months to two years. Work on the second section, from the Covington River to Sperryville, will start in the summer of 1990 with completion anticipated in 1992.
WhrfE will happen when the dual lane reaches Sperryville?
‘Well, it will probably tie down with what is there and that will probably be it for many, many years,” Mr. Askew reported. At present, he said, there are no plans to bring the dual lanes “around or through Sperryville.”
He did note that a connecting
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