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1 o the editor:
The beauty, quiet and relative privacy available to the residents of Rappahannock County are as important to us as to anyone. Friends who have managed to find our home some 1.75 miles off Highway 211 near Sperryville can testify to that.
Safety is also a concern. There are ten residences on our right of way, seven used full time, three usually on weekends. (I have not discussed this with, nor do these comments claim to reflect the views of, our neighbors.) Whenever someone enters Rt. 211 from our lane going west, it is risky. The same is true when turning off 211; other drivers often crowd and occasionally pass despite the double yellow lines. We need the highway enlarged to four lanes, not for occasionally busy spring and fall weekends but for every day safety. Our entrance is not the only risky one.
Some have written and spoken of the increased danger to Rappahannock students if Rt. 211 were expanded to four lanes where it passes school entrances. One wonders if this concern is based on evidence or on convenient conjecture. In Madison County there exists almost an exact model; Rt. 29, with four lanes and carrying much more traffic than Rt. 211, passes two schools just west of Madison.
Discussions with people involved with their schools turned up no problems or accidents in a situation similar to what Rappahannock County would have following completion of the proposed work. One Madison County resident said that conditions have been safer there for school buses and cars since Rt. 29 was widened to four lanes.
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