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The Commonwealth Transportation Board recently approved tentative allocations of $996.7 million for transportation improvements for the 1993-94 fiscal year, an increase of $90 million over the current fiscal year’s allocations.
The allocation include $39 million for the Culpeper District, which includes Rappahannock County.
The board, meeting in Richmond, approved a tentative six-year transportation improvement program that includes 123 new highway improvement projects among the total of 891 projects.
“Virginia continues to have a strong transportation construction program using state and federal funds to meet growing needs in every comer of the Commonwealth,” said Virginia Secretary of Transportation John G. Milliken, chairman of the transportation board.
“State and federal law have given us incresed flexibility to put the resources where the problems are, whether it is to alleviate congestion in a suburban county or to promote economic development in our rural areas,” he said.
The federal legislation established and provides funding for a National Highway System and for congestion mitigation and air quality improvement (CMAQ) in Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg, Richmond and Hampton Roads (the locations identified as non-attainment areas under the Clean Air Act). The law also includes funds for safety improvements and a new program of transportation facility enhancements.
VDOTs Six-Year Improvement Program is the transportation board’s plan for identifying funds anticipated to be available for ports, airports, public transportation and highway construction in the 1993-94
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