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VDOT
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In response, the VDOT engineer, Garrett Moore, has ordered a study to be conducted to determine whether a hazard exists, according to the rules and regulations required for the state to impose one of several possible official limitations on speed— from stop signs to lowered limits and physical “bumps” and warnings painted on the surface of the road itself.
The only other alternative is enforcement, which by the nature of manpower and resources is always going to be sporadic and costly for the Rappahannock Sheriffs Office.
This is not the first time that the Fowlers have raised the speeding issue and not the first time a study has been conducted.
Says Major Leggett, “The Fowlers correctly noted that the last time that a speeding analysis was done, it was botched.”
No valid data came out of that first study, which VDOT conducted less than a year ago. Anomalies were recorded by new testing equipment with which VDOT says its technicians were not especially familiar with. Speeds recorded on the instrumentation could not possibly have been achieved on that short stretch of road, says Sheriff Larry Sherertz and VDOT. Also, the study was conducted from Friday to Monday, at a time when tourists and slow-driving gawkers were using the roads, instead of commuters and local drivers.
Need new data
“We all agreed 100 percent that we needed decent data,” says Mayor Leggett. “And we said, ‘Let’s do it again.'"
In his letter, the mayor asked for a speed study “with no anomalies” to be conducted during two days in the middle of the week at the entrances into Washington from Route 211 and along Main Street from the north and south town limits.
In his reply dated May 26, VDOT’s Moore readily agreed to the new study, adding
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