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Keep me entraiiee> mue> apai t. Put them three or four miles apart and it will be just like the Washington Beltway — totally commuter traffic. . .You need to keep that 20mile distance or you defeat the purpose of bypassing: the day it's built, it’s going to be flooded."
In addressing the gridlock on the existing beltway, “the object of the exercise should be to reduce traffic, period," maintained Supervisor Ellis Bingham. And if traffic is the problem. then mass transit must be part of the solution, he contended, persuading his fellow supervisors that support for mass transit should be part of their resolution opposing a western route for a new outer beltway. "Keep in mind that we ought to try to give them an alternative, and the alternative is mass transportation."
PI)9 to take position on proposed superhighway
Col. E.P. Luke, former chairman of the county’s Board of Supervisors and now Rappahannock’s citizen representative on the five-county Planning District Commission, which he chairs, reported that PD9 has asked a representative from Bellomo-McGee to attend its December meeting. “We feel a responsibility to take a position (on the proposed highway)." Col. Luke told the board.
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