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The Virginia Department of Transportation’s top priority in Rappahannock County is the four-laning of Rt. 211 from Washington west to Sperryville, according to Robert E. Moore, resident engineer for Rappahannock and Fauquier counties. “That’s a mjgor project,” he said recently. The resident engineer is responsible for oversight of construction and maintenance of all state roads in the two-county residency.
The department is in the process of acquiring rights-of-way and completing the preliminary engineering on the project. Mr. Moore predicted that construction should begin by 1990 and be completed sometime in 1994.
The county has also seen its secondary road money more than double during the past year, from $289,000 to $660,000. That additional allocation came from the state General Assembly’s decision to increase the state sales tax, gasoline tax and motor vehicle titling tax, and licensing fees.
As a result, most counties found themselves with between double and triple their previous secondary road improvement budgets. Mr. Moore said that the money would be used throughout the county for projects ranging from the paving of gravel roads to the improvement of road shoulders on some thoroughfares.
The resident engineer added that, as has been the policy in the past, VDOT will work closely with the county’s Board of Supervisors in determining which secondary roads are given priority for improvements. Currently, the department is widening a number of old bridges in the county, replacing the worn concrete barriers with new structures standing further from the traffic •'».C
Mr. Moore \was the Rappahannock/Fauquier residency’s assistant resident engineer before being promoted to his present position Sept. 1. He assumed the post after former resident engineer Donald R. Askew was promoted to assistant district engineer and transferred to the Fredericksburg district earlier this year.
“It’s a challenge,” Mr. Moore said of his promotion. ‘There’s a lot of responsibility that goes with the
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