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transportation systems are going -to change with the worsening problen| of air pollution. “People won’t Ije able to continuously depend on the automobile.” Also ultimately affecting traffic patterns, developers won’t be able to continue to cut up land “because we’re going to need the land to feed people,” Dr. Krebser said.
At the Planning Commission’s session last week, probably the last forum on the road project before the Department of Transportation’s scheduled local meetings on July 20 and 21, critics repeated arguments voiced at other hearings.
Bill SenKewitz contended that parallel-laning will actually make the road less safe because vehicles wiH‘ cross the median strip and run heacb. on into approaching traffic. “Fourlaning will disrupt the whole comma<. nity. Change our way of life and everything.”
Bill Hiers called on the Planning' Commission to designate a special., truck route, reporting that 44 tractor-trailers passed his residence drt* Rt. 211 at the Covington River in just one morning. “If you don’t, somebody’s going to get killed," he - warned.
(Only the Virginia Department of Transportation may restrict traffic on state roads, and that agency last year denied the Board of Supervisors’ petition to close Rt. 522 to the big trucks which are taking the nar-’. row and winding road over the. mountain at Chester Gap since the department imposed a tractor-' trailer ban on Rt. 17 between Marshall and Warrenton in Fauquier County.)
Robin Purnell called the parallel-; laning, first approved in 1960, an - “obsolete plan ... an old, old plan.” Shenandoah National Park’s refusal to allow the road to be widened through its territory means that the original intent of dual-laning from , Washington, D.C., to Luray to connect with Interstate 81 “can ne. longer be fulfilled,” she added. “I’d like to see money put into making.■< the road safer, but not four-laning. ’’
“Is there no official body in the county responsible for collecting in- ■* formation, and not leave it to the citizens” to gather data on such issues . as “whether or not dual-laning is a./ safer way to go?" inquired Peter White. He asked for information on <\ such “basics” as how many trucks . traverse the four miles between 5 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and questioned
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