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taining our roads and bridges.”
It’s not just the buildings that will close. VDOT spokeswoman Joan Morris said that once the rest areas shut down, commuters wall not be able to use the parking lots for emergency pull-offs or late-night naps.
“You will not be able to get off the interstate.” she said. “The whole area will be blocked off so there won't be any confusion.”
VDOT is cutting $2 billion from its construction program over the next six years and making $391 million in cuts to administrative and support programs and $348 million in reductions to the maintenance and operations program.
Gilbert, however, plans to ask Gov. Kaine for an audit of the agency.
“A performance audit of VDOT would find substantial ^savings,” said Gilbert, adding he * and Sen. Obenshain plan to keep putting examples of cost savings measures out there “one by one and asking the governor, ‘Are you willing to fix these”
A map of affected rest areas . is available at www.virginiadot.org/news/resources/Statewi
dal9_SRAWC_Closures.pdf.
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