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lane has “no options” when confronted by a truck on the wrong side of the road, Mr. Foster said. “Look at the median strip (between Washington and Warrenton) and then look at the double yellow line (between Washington and Sperryville). Which is more protection?” he asked. “The question shouldn’t be if you should complete the four-lane, but how soon you can get started,” he told the highway officials.
“If this road is stopped,” said Newbill Miller, “it will do more to hasten growth in Rappahannock County” than would building 4.4 miles of dual-laned highway because it would signal “the erosion of public support for the planning process.” There are reasons other than traffic counts for improving roads, the former supervisor and planning commissioner said. “If traffic counts were the only thing that mattered," Northern Virginia would get all the state’s highway money “and we wouldn’t even get our snow pushed!”
Mr. Miller added that he also supports a bypass of Sperryville as part of the Rt. 211 improvement project, a position taken by several other speakers. In addition, proponents suggested that cross-overs be built at the Rappahannock Farmers Co-op, the Child Care and Learning Center, and near John Marshall Clark’s farm at a lane which serves 11 households.
At Thursday’s 3-1/2 hour meeting, 21 spoke in favor of the highway project and 28 against. VDOT’s district and residency offices will now compile a report on the proceedings, addressing all the points raised by opponents, and then forward the report to State Highway Commissioner Ray Pethtel and Constance Kinchloe, Culpeper District’s representative on the Commonwealth’s Transportation Board. The full board will then review the project and make a final decision, not expected for at least 90 days, oh whether to complete the dual-laning of Rt. 211 to Sperryville.
In the interim, according to resident engineer Bob Moore, design work will continue, but no additional right-of-way will be acquired without the Transportation Board’s approval of the dual laning.
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