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laning and at a fraction of the cost. Deceleration lanes can be constructed for about $7,000 apiece. Hills (such as the one by the Farmers’ Co-op) can be lowered and curves softened.
• The Virginia Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board (which makes recommendations to VDOT on allocation of funds) have both said that they are willing to work with our requests. If we do not want this dual-lane, they will not build it.
• At our district’s annual preallocation meeting on Monday, April 11, at 10 a.m. at the VDOT office in Culpeper, a petition will be submitted to Constance Kincheloe, our district’s representative to the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The petition requests that the proposed dual-laning not take place, particularly without plans for a bypass around Sperryville and that safety problems be addressed immediately, without waiting until 1989 or 1990.
In summary, the road-widening plan, as it stands today, represents only the eastern-most third of what was to have been the final link of the Rt. 211 “artery.” The Park Service prohibited the four-laning of the western end, while the Sperryville Community Group stopped plans for either a bypass of Sperryville or a four-lane road through the town.
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