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By Richard Lyres
Special to the Rappahannock News
As a third in a series of public forums on “Treasures of Rappahannock County,” the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection (RLEP) sponsored a meeting Friday night to discuss the Virginia Department of Transportation’s “Rural Rustic Roads Program.”
For many in the turnout of 80 citizens at the Washington Fire Hall, the principal revelation — or clarification — is the fact that the “Rural Rustic Roads” program is not dedicated to keeping the rural gravel roads of the state but to pave those roads.
That said, however, several vital qualifiers were promptly cited in the two-hour program:
• Roads must meet certain criteria laid down by the state legislature;
• Eveiyone on the road must want their road paved (most often with chip and tar rather than macadam).
The “rural rustic” part of the program, however, has one sig
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