West Virginia might lag behind in this race, as we do in several others, but we'll put lots of money into it. We have already. The Appalachian Development Highway System used to include all kinds of roads. Corridor H was going to be a scenic parkway, and two lanes were sufficient. Not any more.
More lanes means more jobs.
Yet support for Corridor H is waning. Now Ken Hechler, our Secretary of State who is running for Congress, has sponsored a poll to gauge voters opinions in the Second District, where the big road would go. All the counties would suffer from the drain of their highway funds to a dubious and extremely expensive project. That is true throughput the state, but especially so in the rapidly growing Panhandle. A cartoon last month in The Journal of Martinsburg expressed the pervasive skepticism.