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in 1987, 490,248 people.
• In 1974, the Highway Department’s Planning Engineer stated that “an average of 4,000 cars a day pass through Sperryville,” excluding data for Park traffic during peak seasons. In 1986, including heavy seasonal traffic into the Park, that figure averaged about 5,230 cars per day. Of these 5,230 cars, an average of approximately 2,070 cars per day go on toward Skyline Drive.
• According to the Highway Department, in 1986 there were 147 accidents per one hundred million miles of travel on Rt. 211 between Massie’s Comer and Sperryville. This compares with a state-wide average for primary roads in 1986 of 209 accidents per one hundred million miles of travel.
• To the best of my knowledge, only about one-third of the needed right-of-way along Rt. 211 between Washington and Sperryville has been purchased.
• The environmental impact statement, which had been completed in 1973, has expired and a new impact statement is currently being prepared.
• Construction of the first leg of the 4.2-mile dual-laning project (between Washington and the Covington River) is scheduled to begin in mid-1989. The second leg, from the Covington River to the north fork of the Thornton, is scheduled to begin in 1990. At present, there are no plans for a bypass around Sperryville or for a “spur” of highway between Rt. 211 and Rt. 522 to Culpeper. Traffic counts indicate that at least 60 percent of the traffic on Rt. 211 to Sperryville turns left onto Rt. 522.,
• The Highway Department has said that it can improve safety conditions on Rt. 211 between Washington and Sperryville without dual
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