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Armed with accident data, memos from the Highway Department’s files, new cost figures, and the resident engineer’s reported pledge that addition of deceleration lanes, leveling of hills, and other safety improvements can be undertaken immediately, opponents to plans for widening Route 211 came back to the Planning Commission last week, asking that support for the four-laning of 4.2 miles between Washington and Sperryville be striken from the county’s comprehensive plan.
The dual-laning of Route 211 was part of the upgrading of the state’s arterial system ordered by the General Assembly some 30 years ago, but declining gas tax revenues coupled with increased construction and maintenance costs and demands for new roads from urbanizing areas of the state emptied Highway Department coffers before the project was completed. For more than a decade, the Rappahannock Supervisors have sought to have the last of the twolane turned into four-lane, and the response from the Highway Department has been, in essence: “Other work has higher priority. We’ll do it as soon as we have the money.”
In the meantime, the county’s first comprehensive plan was adopted, designating the Flatwoods (area as the sole site for future commercial and industrial development in Rappahannock and specifically calling for the dual-laning of Route 211 through Flatwoods and on to Sperryville.
That comprehensive plan was enacted seven years ago following in
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