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Gerald Baliles.
John McCarthy, zoning administrator and administrative assistant to the Board of Supervisors, maintained that the current two-lane road between Washington and Sperryville is “intolerable from a safety standpoint.”
He conceded that more modest improvements could correct the safety hazards for less than the $17 million estimate for parallel-laning but added the work would still cost “millions of dollars.”
And the highway between Washington and Sperryville would still have to be upgraded to four divided lanes in five or 10 years, just to handle increased traffic, Mr. McCarthy maintained. In 1981, daily traffic reached 4,500 vehicles, the level for qualifying for federal funds for duallaning, he reported. The count climbed 20 percent by 1987 and highway officials expect 1988 statistics to show yet another increase, the zoning administrator added.
Describing those fighting the highway project as people “generally supportive of planning and zoning,” Mr. McCarthy said he doesn’t understand the opposition to duallaning four miles of interior highway to correct safety hazards. “I don’t see how it’s speculative. I don’t see how it’s developmentally oriented. I don’t see how it is anything other than a reasonable response to a problem we have right now.”
And by a five-one margin, with Dr. Krebser opposed, the Planning Commission approved the resolution and directed it be presented to the Virginia Department of Transportation before the July 20 and 21 hearings at Rappahannock County Elementary School.
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