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Joe Rogalsky
Capital News Service
RICHMOND — A bill restricting tractor-trailer truck traffic on an eight-mile section of U.S. 17 in northern Fauquier County last week moved closer to passing the General Assembly.
The House of Delegates approved the bill 77-18, but put a Sunset Provision in place. The provision means that the bill expires in one year, on June 30, .2002, and must be renewed to remain in effect.
The Senate must vote on the provision before the bill goes to the governor.
The House Transportation Committee 18-7* last week approved the proposal sponsored by Sen. H. Russell Potts ,(R-Winchester). If the bill becomes law, the trucks would be prohibited from using U.S. 17 ^between Route 50 and Interstate 66 except for local deliveries.
“This road has not been engineered for truck use,” Potts said. “It is an evolution of a trail that was covered with asphalt and then evolved into a nightmare.”
Potts cited safety concerns and the declining condition of U.S. 17 as reasons to bar truck traffic. The road, he said, attracts tractor-trailers because truckers can use it to bypass the mandatory weigh scales on 1-66.
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