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opened to trucks as soon as improvements to the highway removed safety hazards in Fauquier.
Don Askew, the former resident engineer for Rappahannock and Fauquier who is now with VDOT’s Fredericksburg District office, confirmed that “from an accident point of view,” the work on Route 17 is substantially complete. "Those sections where we had accidents have already been four-laned,” he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
The remaining l'/.-mile stretch just outside of Marshall on which dual-laning began two weeks ago was rebuilt in the early 1970s and has good alignment, good shoulders and pavement 24 feet wide, according to Mr. Askew.
To the contention that this last section of Route 17 is a less hazardous truck route than Route 522, Mr. Farley responded “yes and no.” Although agreeing that Route 522 has poorer sight distance and more access points, he maintained that “the potential for accidents is much greater" with a configuration going from dual-lane to two-lane, as would be the case if Route 17 is re-opened to trucks before the northern section is rebuilt as a divided highway.
But he added that the same does not apply to the Warrenton spur, since traffic has a tendency to slow down as it approaches an urban area, regardless of the highway configuration.
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