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partment’s vehicle projections “simply have not come about.”
Addressing the environmental assessment, Mrs. Cadwalader pointed out that it fails to mention the alternatives to dual-laning presented by the opponents of the highway project.
As to safety, she maintained that accidents have decreased on the 4.4mile stretch in the last 10 years and that it has one-third fewer accidents than the state average for similar facilities. The environmental assessment acknowledges “some opposition" to the dual-laning; Mrs. Cadwalader called that an inaccurate description, noting that at the district's primary road hearing in April. 40 people spoke against the project and only three or four in favor. She added that while petitions against the project carry 530 signatures, those petitions in favor have collected only 107 signatures.
“The Federal Highway Administration hasn’t been told this. The Federal Highway Administration hasn’t been told a lot of things!” she concluded.
“We don’t believe the Federal Highway Administration knows the true facts about this situation,” echoed attorney Frank Reynolds, describing the information VDOT presents in the environmental assessment and design report as “old, stale, erroneous data” with traffic projections made before the opening of 1-66. Rt. 211 was intended to be the link between Washington, D.C. and the Shenandoah Valley and Interstate 81, Mr. Reynolds said. “It isn't. It never will be. Interstate 66 is now the connection to 81.”
The dual-laning of 4.4 miles “will invite a significant increase in truck traffic in Rappahannock County,” said John Cadwalader, adding that the shortest route from Danville, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville to Front Royal and Lynchburg is through Sperryville, and that fact, coupled with the new truck port, poses “a threat of an avalanche of truck traffic through Rappahannock County."
Bill SenKewitz said “it’s not the road that’s to blame (for accidents). It’s the drivers ... If drivers don’t drive safe, nothing is safe, no matter what kind of road you have.”
And Peter White said he’d been told by a VDOT representative at the previous day’s information meet
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