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“We thought we understood how people thought about us,” he said. “We were wrong!” As a result, Moore and his staff meet regularly with the board of supervisors and individuals involved in the planning process. He provided flyers, maps and other handouts and volunteered to provide other printed materials from his office.
Moore covered the basic procedures of how a road improvement project gets into and through the process. He emphasized that VDOT is most concerned about the primary, interstate and urban road system and leaves most management decisions involving secondary roads up to county boards.
Many of the questions from the audience concerned VDOT terminology, the Pave-in-Place program, and information regarding specific road projects. Moore explained that VDOT focuses oh safety and potential liability when it considers road improvements. VDOT’s policies have become more flexible over the years. Instead of being straight with 90 degree intersections, he said, “Roads can now meander. It has a tendency to .keep, speeds low.”
VDOT engineers also track traffic flow, daily traffic count, condition of bridge, etc., in order to ensure safety in the future. If moderate changes are noted, VDOT anticipates that work will need to be done in the next several years and works the project into the budget.
In response to a suggestion by Hunt Harris’, of Ragged Mountain Resource Center, VDOT Will provide informational materials for the Library’s County Comer. Moore also said that VDOT notices of public hearings and other meetings will be widely publicized.
Mitzi Young, Bemie Fisken, and several other people expressed disappointment with VDOT’s handling of recent public hearings. They felt that the procedures used at the U.S. 522/211 hearing at Rappahannock High School provided little useful information to them as citizens. VDOT posted maps and made engineers available to answer
See MEETING, Page A6
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