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quires grading at least twice a month by highway crews to remove the “wash boards.” She noted that the neighbors on the other side of the road are not willing to donate the right-of-way required by the Department for paving secondary roads. “And we can’t give 10 more feet because that would put the road in our living room.”
Doug Baumgardner, whose parents live past the Sharps on Route 624, agreed that safety would be improved by paving the hill in front of their house.
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Supervisor Charles Estes asked that higher priority be given to improvements on Route 622.
“That’s in this year’s budget," said Mr. Moore. The Highway Department is working with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, which holds a conservation easement on the only property which has not donated the necessary right-of-way.
Cars are caught between the river and a hard rock at Rock Mills, where Route 626 takes a long, hard, blind curve, said Elizabeth Gaskell, suggesting that the department put up reflecting mirrors so drivers can see another vehicle approaching.
“I wish I could donate the pavement they put on my road two years ago to some of you folks!” said Lou Hatter. Since the paving of Rt. 608, the road sees more traffic travelling at higher speeds, he told the highway department representatives. On a sharp 90-degree bend about one-half mile off Rt. 231, Mr. Hatter asked for a sign warning of the approaching narrow', blind curve.“There’s going to be an accident there sooner or later,” he said of the spot, where the road drops off sharply into a streambed on both sides.
“There’s mud coming up in the middle of the street" on Route 615 from the Culpeper County line to
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