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However, the spur faces opposi-1 tion on environmental grounds, and £ no exact route for the connector* route has yet to be made public. *
“Perhaps the trucking lobby was * strong and we were lucky we had • this for as long as we did,” said War-. renton Mayor Bill Lineweaver. I
According to John Albertella, oft the Fauquier Citizens for Environ- £ mental Responsiblitv, VDOT’s envi- • ronmental impact study concerning * the proposed spur development to '• curb traffic in the town of Warren-1 ton has not been completed.
“We would have preferred they waited until the results of the study were completed before making the decision to reopen Route 17,” said Mr. Albertella.
The anticipated completion of the study is early 1989, according to Mr. Moore. “Once it is completed, then
tions,” said Mr. Moore. i
VDOT has studied the effects of £ the truck traffic on Warrenton and £ some improvements have been £ made. “An acceleration fcane was > added to the north end of town. I > don’t think it (the reopening) will > cause a gridlock in town,” said Mike y Moon, VDOT assistant resident en-£ gineer. £
Don Askew, former Fauquier * and Rappahannock resident engi- * neer now with VDOT in Fredricks- • burg, said that “from an accident £ point of view” the work on U.S. 17 is £ complete. “Those sections where we * had accidents have already been > four-laned,” he said recently. _
The added speed the trucks will v bring once again by using U.S. 17will decrease safety, according to* Dave Smith, a government school *' teacher at Fauquier High School, £ who lives along U.S. 17. “It is going - to be a mess in town, as well. It is > pretty bad now,” he said.
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