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By Mary Ann Kuhn
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Speed detection devices are scheduled to be installed tomorrow on three streets entering the Tbwn of Washington.
The decision to monitor motorists came after the county sheriff-, the town mayor and engineers from the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) met Friday to coordinate efforts to address residents' complaints about speeding through the town.
"Probably the biggest source of complaints" are from residents seeing motorists speeding into town from Fodderstack Road, said Rappahannock County Sheriff Larry Sherertz standing near a sign posted 25 m.p.h. on that approach into town.
Sherertz had written a letter to VDOT officials asking for assistance in setting up devices to monitor speeders after complaints from residents surfaced at a Washington Tbwn Council meeting last month.
VDOT officials, Garrett Moore and Steve Black, as well as Mayor Gene Leggett accompanied the sheriff to the three sites in town where devices will be installed for three or four days: the Fodderstack entrance to town, the Warren Avenue entrance to town and the Main Street entrance from Route 211.
The speed counters will
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