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formational meetings in Amissville, Chester Gap, Woodville, Washington, Sperryville, and Flint Hill, and public hearings by both the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors. In addition, the Board of Supervisors has repeatedly designated the dual-laning of Route 211 as the county’s most pressing need for primary system improvements and sent representatives to the annual primary allocation hearing in Culpeper to plead Rappahannock’s case.
Throughout this effort to get the road built, there was no public resistance. But in the past few months, since the Highway Department gave the dual-laning of Route 211 top priority and scheduled construction to begin by 1990, opponents have sought to stop the project or at least revise it to dual-laning only through Flatwoods with its high volume intersections at the Farmers Cooperative and the county’s two public schools.
“If you say safety, and you’re for the four-lane highway, then you must say by-pass,” Ulrich Maeyer told the Planning Commissioners at last Wednesday’s meeting. Without such a by-pass - initially proposed by the Highway Department but abandoned in the face of opposition from Sperryville residents - trucks coming off the dual-lane at 65 miles per hour will create both a traffic jam and a safety hazard as they stop and wait to take the sharp left turn at the Sperryville Exxon, Mr. Maeyer said.
The road is dangerous as is, he
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