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native to dual-laning. “That would give you more safety than anything else.”
Robin Purnell questioned the sense of putting in dual lanes for traffic when 60 to 75 percent of that traffic is going to be forced back into a single lane to make two sharp left turns, the second coming at an “extraordinarily dangerous” intersection where Lester Deal’s new construction blocks sight distance. (Sheriff John Henry Woodward told the supervisors later in Monday’s meeting that he is writing the Highway Department to ask “something be done about that intersection.”)
When the Rt. 211 project was initially approved, there was no Interstate 66 or inland seaport at Front Royal, noted Susan Babcock. The dual-laning “will create more problems than we have now,” she said. “Let’s not spend all this money on making cars go faster.”
Sandra Cartwright-Brown, who operates a bed-and-breakfast at Slate Mills, maintained that the urbanization of the county will adversely affect local businesses. But business will prosper and land values here will soar if Rappahannock’s “rural character” is preserved, she said.
This “huge highway pouring into Sperryville . . . Where does it go in Sperryville and for what reason?” asked Nol Putnam, adding that safety is a “false issue” for justifying the construction of dual lanes.
‘A real death trap’
Carson Johnson, a member of the county’s old Highway Safety Committee, said he is beginning to see the “death traps” and “trouble spots" pinpointed by the committee in the 1960s and 1970s finally corrected. He recalled that earlier wrork' on Rt. 211 “narrowed the bottleneck from Amissville to right out here” and with the completion of the section west of Amissville, “we now have a bottleneck from here to Sperryville . . . It’s a real death trap and
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