Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 5 · column 2 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
Guest column
merit had been expected to begin about 1976, but apparently funds have not been available until recently.
• The estimated cost of this 4.2-mile project is $13.4 million, of which at least 70 percent (about $9.4 million) will be federal funds. The federal money has not yet been allocated. Privately, I have been told by a mid-ranking Highway Department employee that the final cost for this project will probably be closer to $20 million.
• In August 1984, in an internal memorandum in the public record, the Highway Department’s Assistant Chief Engineer wrote the Director of Planning and Programming that the need for correction of curves in Rt. 211 between the Town of Sperryville and the Park boundary “far outweighs . . . (the need for) the dual-laning (between Washington and Sperryville) for the present time until the traffic justifies the need.”
• Since 1985, traffic going into the Park via the Thornton Gap entrance station (i.e., on Rt. 211) has decreased by 13 percent. In 1985, 565,492 people entered the Park through this station; in 1986, there were 522,515 people, and
95.1%