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Resolution affirms
board’s support
“The Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County strongly presses and urges the Virginia Department of Transportation to proceed with the construction of the parallel lanes of U.S. Rt. 211/522 from the town of Washington west to Sperryville.”
That resolution with “whereases” citing traffic increases, poor sight distance, limited passing zones, and the comprehensive plan’s designation of the highway corridor for commercial development passed unanimously at Monday’s meeting after the board listened to a halfhour of public comment on the long delayed road project.
- The improvements to Rt. 211, as part of the state’s arterial system, were ordered by the General Assembly during the major natiowide highway improvement 'program in the early 1960s. The dual-laning was completed from Warrenton to Washington, including the Washington bypass, but diminished highway money forced postponement of the final 4.2 miles from Washington to Sperryville. For more than a decade, the Rappahannock supervisors have lobbied to get that stretch done, and last year, with funds flowing from Governor Baliles’s highway construction initiatives, the Virginia Department of Transportation gave Rt. 211 top priority, a $13 million cost estimate, and construction timetable to start in late 1989 and finish by 1991.
The announcement galvanized residents heretofore quiet. Carrying petitions with more than 500 Rappahannock names opposed to the
See RESOLUTION, p. 18
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