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VDOT to conduct
second study on
speeding in town
By Malcolm C: MacPherson
Rappahanrxxk News Staff Writer
When Sarah and Brandon Fowler sit on their front porch with Will, their new baby of two months, it is hard not to sympathize with their parental fears.
What they see down the road literally would worry' any parent—Will in a few short years running out to the street in front of their house after a ball, and a car or motorcycle cresting the hill past their house, speeding, and with no warning to stop in time. And a nightmare ensues.
It is not why the Fowlers moved to their house on Main Street in Little Washington. Neither is that kind of trepidation why anybody lives in Rappahannock County. It simply is not in the nature of the place.
With that thought in mind the Mayor of Washington, Eugene Leggett, sent an official letter dated May 20 to see whether the local resident engineer of the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)’s residency in Warrenton could address what the Fowlers and their neighbors perceive as a traffic hazard in the future, but presently, one that might carry the threat of harm to elderly pedestrians, visitors and residents alike.
See VDOT, Page A7
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