Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-17
SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS
WILL Be CONSIDERED
State Legislative Road Committee
Meets at Natural Bridge
Hotel To.Niorrow.
MEETING TO BE OPEN TO PUBLIC
Chairman Goolrick Invites Criticism
Of the Tentative System OF High
ways, and Also Wants Suggestions
for Changes in State Road Laws.


tee will give a public hearing TO road
routes and road laws At a meeting TO
be held 1T Natural Bridge Hotel. G.
O'Conor Goodrich. of fredericksburg.
is chairman Of the committee: \. Willis
Robertson of iiucna Vista secretary
and the other members are kcnnith y.
Giipin and Norvcll l.. Henley.
BY request OF Chairman Goolrick
motorists throughout tho state have
Scrt to him criticisms OF The State
auto and road laws. and also sent suE-
Eostious relative TO the system of pub,
tic highways. which the committee has
tentatively decided 10 recommend to
the Legislature in January next
Large maps showing the proposed
system OF highways for the state have
been published in the press Of the
state ,toEo,hc. with 4 dcscriptio ion Of
the various routes At the meeting
tomorrow tho committee will hear ar
Eunlcnts tcr the changes in a few OF
the routes. and viii then decide on its
fnal r"ror; To the Legislature
The system OF highways tentatively
recommended and which will I've consid-
cred nj the public meeting tomorrow
follows
rrimnry nond. Selected.
/. Washington, I.ortou. Dumfrics.
Stafford. FrcdcriCkshurc Chilesburg.
Negro. Richmond. Petersburg. Dinwid-
die. Warriold, South lTil. c!arNsville.
North Carolina line.
.. Maryland line. Locshurg. Al.lie.
Plains Wa"rciiton. Culpcpcr Madison
Mills. Orange, Gordonsvillc. Palmyra.
pillwyn. afrmvillc. kcysville. Wy!ics-
burg. North Carolina line.
8 Wos' Virginia line. Winchester.
liarrison'ur=. stanton. Lexington.
Natural Bridge Buchanan Roanoke
Rocky Mount. Martinsvillc, Ridceway,
North Carolina line
4. Maryland line. Accomac. Eastvillc,
Cape Charles
i. Norfolk. Suffolk. Franklin. Court
land, Petersburg. Richmond.
s. Alexandria. Fairfax, Aldic. Middle
burg, tppcrvillc. Royce. Winchester,
Gore. West Virginia line
Z. Eeedsvillc and lrvinGton. Hcaths-
willie, Warsaw. Montross. King George
Frederick shurg. StevcnsburE. Culpcpcr.
Washington, Va. Front Royal. Win
chester. West Virginia line.
s. Mathews Saiuda. Tappahannock.
Fort Royal, FREDERICKSBURG. --'-- -
.. Old Point Hampton. Newport
News Williamsburg. Richmond. Negro.
Mineral. Louisa. Trcvilians, Gotham
Charlottesville, Alton. Wayncsboro
stanton. Churchville. Monterey. West
Virginia line. This also includes line
town. Gloucester Point. Gloucester
Courthouse, TO connect with line
from Saluda to West Point. Richmond
East and West Road.
10. Virginia Beach, Norfolk. Suffolk
Smithfield, Surry Courthouse, Peters
burg, blackstone. Nottowar, Farmville.
AppomattoX, LynchburE. Bedford. Roa-
noke. Salem, Christiansburg. Dublin
Pulaski, Wythevillc, Marion. Abingdon.
Bristol. Gate city. Stickleyville. PEN
nington Gap, Ben Hur. Jonesvillc. Cum
hcrland Gap. with "A connection from
A hi rry I.la TO ~ a IA
Russell County, in No. Il
Tazewcll. Rosedaic. Lebanon. Old
Courthouse. st. Paul. Cochurn. Norton.
Big stone Gap. Pennington Gap. Cum
herland Gan.
Secondary line from coeburn to
Clintwood and the kentucky line. and
Cin'woo to Grundy.
IL. Virginia Reach. Norfolk. Suffolk,
Franklin. Cour;iand. Emporia, Law
rcncevilo. South Hill Chase City,
Houston. panvillc. Martinsvillr. stuart.
Carolina line.
Connecting line. North Carolina line,
Hillsvi!lc, Wythevillc.
IL T"pra hannock, Richmond Mid
lothian. Powhatan Cumberland. Farm
VILE, i.ynchhurG. thence west
II. White sulphur. Covincton. Cliff
ton Forge, Lexington, Natural Bridge.
vile. North Carolina line
Secondary It"nd. Chosen.
!. Woodstock. CALVARY. West vir-
ginia line
. Orange. Madison, Stanley. Luray.
New MARKET.
3. Gordonsvilic. stanardsvillc. Elk
ton. Harrisonhure. Moscow. Deerneld,
Warm Springs Ho, Springs. Coving-
ton.
l. Alton. :.ovinFs,on. clifford. Am.
h"rst. LynchburE. Brookncal, Houston.
South Roston. North Carolina line.
8. Richmond. Rio Vista. C;oochland. 10
point on No of main line
e. Richmond. Amelia. Hurrcvi,lc
Blackstone, ktnbridac. Lunenbury.
Charlotte. BrookneaI
:. Manassas. Fai-fax. Washington. %,
s. Salem. Cata wha New Castle. West
Virginia line.
.. stuart, Floyd. Christiansburr
hlacksbure. rcarisburg. West Virginia
line
10. Emroria. North Carolina line.
II. Chain Bridge, Vienna, Fairfax.
Manassas
IL Pulaski. fredericksburg. Bland
Courthouse,