Last week, before the public hearing on the Secondary Six-Year Plan for Westmoreland, Carter White, VDOT assistant residency administrator, gave a recap on the background of the program, as well as the Rural Rustic Roads program, which is designed to get gravel roadways that don’t see a whole lot of use per day paved.
These unpaved roads have to already be within the State Secondary System and carry no more than 1,500 vehicles per day for mainly local traffic. The idea is to, as VDOT’s presentation put it, “preserve the rural ambience while improving road surfaces in the current right-of-way.”
The current paving projects got bumped up in their schedule somewhat, with Granny’s Bar Road slated for the summer of this year. Charles Way, meanwhile, is now slated to be handled in the summer of 2024, while Ashbury Road gets the same treatment in 2025.
When the matter came to the Board of Supervisors, adoption of the resolution for the Secondary Six-Year Plan was unanimously approved.
Of things to come from VDOT that don’t involve secondary six-year improvements, the biggest item on the list includes a series of slope failure repairs on routes 3, 202, and 205, as well as a shoulder repair at Rt. 205 and Stony Knoll Road. And of course, there is the bridge project at Tidwells.
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