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lem for other motorists, according to VDOT.
The other roads to wh ch VDOT referred, which saw a heavy increase in truck traffic during the period, are U. S. 522 in Rappahannock County, 1-66 and U. S. 29 in the Gainesville and New Baltimore areas. “People called, concerned with the amount of truck traffic that was appearing on these roads,” said Mr. Moore.
The problem was with truck traffic through Rappahannock County on U.S. 522 in particular, and influenced the decision, according to VDOT.
“We expected it. The Transportation Commission said once the road (the four-laning of U. S. 17) was finished that it would reopen. We are disappointed that the spur isn’t completed before this occurs,” said Don Smith, Warrenton town manager.
However, the transportation board’s decision was welcome news to Rappahannock’s Board of Supervisors and its residents who live along Route 522. The supervisors had sent a strongly worded resolution to State Transportation Commissioner Ray Pethtel, urging that Route 17 be reopened to truck traffic at the earliest possible date.
The Town of Warrenton, however, had lobbied for the reopening to be delayed until a spur is completed to link Route 17 with the Route 29 bypass north of tow n. The town maintained that the increased truck traffic along Broadview Avenue would merely shift an unsafe situation from north of Warrenton into the town.
The spur option would consist of a road connecting U. S. 17 with the U. S. 29 bypass east of Warrenton. If approved, the completion timetable would be in 1994.
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