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Once a year, the Highway Department gives people a chance to publicly air complaints about the state of the county’s roads. But judging from the turnout for Monday’s public hearing on Rappahannock’s six-year plan for secondary road improvements, folks here are pretty well satisfied.
“We’re here to see what people want, or don’t want,” announced resident engineer Bob Moore.
And if the Highway Department can’t really say that money is no object, at least it’s not the object it has been in past years. “Our funding projections are up considerably,” the result of Gov. Gerald Baliles’s “program to accelerate road building,” Mr. Moore said, referring to the gas tax increase proposed by the governor and enacted by the General Assembly last year. The county will receive $640,000 to $660,000 annually for a total of $3,764,735 over the next six years. “That seems like a lot of money, but (road construction and maintenance) is a fairly costly business,” Mr. Moore noted.
By districts, residents and the supervisors, who earlier inspected the roads with the highway engineer, proposed additions to the sixyear plan.
Jackson District
Supervisor Ellis Bingham asked for the removal of banks which obstruct vision around a curve on Route 642.
Hampton District
“Absolute overkill!” is how Robin Purnell described railing put up along old Route 211 on the outskirts of the town of Washington. “It’s not in keeping with the town (which is an historic district and relies heavily on tourist trade) ... It makes my driveway look like an exit ramp,” she said, adding that workers left trash and construction debris at the site. Mrs. Purnell asked why no notice of the work was given. “I knew nothing about this. They just showed up one day.”
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