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By Galen C. McBride
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
This is the last of a series of five articles on the state’s Six Year Plan to upgrade or improve secondary roads in the county:
The continued widening and repaving of Chester Gap Road, Route 610, from .1 miles west Route 670 to .3 miles east Route 670 is the only secondary road project in Wakefield district on the current Six Year Plan.
According to Wakefield District Supervisor and chairman of the county board, Hubert S. “Hubie” Gilkey, the long-term project stalled due to die Virginia Department of Transportation’s inability to acquire sufficient donated right-of-way. That problem is expected to be resolved soon, now that VDOT has been authorized to purchase land.
Two citizens’ meetings have already been held with Gilkey. A formal public hearing with VDOT is planned. "Ikis didn’t just pop up," said Gilkey. “It has been an ongoing project for eight to ten years.” What has been done so far "has been an improvement to the community because (the road was so narrow that) VDOT couldn’t get up there to plow.”
Bob Moore, VDOT resident engineer, explained that Route 610 is “a very active secondaiy road” with more than 500 cars traveling on it daily. The
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