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.”