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More recently, the Transportation Board has come under pressure from Fauquier County residents who wanted the ban kept in effect until a spur is built to connect U.S. 17 and U.S. 29 north of Warrenton. That road, however, is mired in controversy and may not be built for years.
As Fauquier’s residents pressed for the ban to continue, Rappahannock County, through its Board of Supervisors, reminded the Transportation Board of its pledge to reopen the road as quickly as possible.
"It is obvious that the sections of U.S. 17 w'hich were shown to have had accidents had been finished," Mr. McCarthy said Monday. “It’s hard to argue that the road is unsafe for trucks after so much money ($4.6 million) was spent to upgrade the road.
"We weren’t as many as Fauquier or Loudoun,” Mr. McCarthy said as he told the supervisors of the VDOT announcement, “but we were louder and more persistent. And, we were right. That always helps."
Another truck ban, this one on U.S. 15 between U.S. 29 and Hay market, will also be partially lifted. Tractor-trailer trucks will be allowed to use the road, but there will be a 15,000 pound weight limit in effect until the North Fork Creek bridge in Prince William County is completed. That means, according to a VDOT spokesman, that only empty trucks can use that part of U.S. 15 until the reconstruction project is finished in 1991.
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