Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-13
SYSTEM OF STATE ROADS
PROPOSED FOR VIRGINIA
Series OF Bills offered In Senate for
Comprehensive Highway
Development.
LIST OF ROADS SELECTED
VIII Receive Federal Aid OF $780,
600 During Next Two Years
Counties TO Plan Auxiliary System
OF Branch Roads.

Ouu During Next TWO Years
Counties TO Plan Auxiliary System
OF Branch Roads.
a bill for the creation OF the State
highway system. as recommended by
the commission appointed by the 1916
Legislature to formulate plans for It's
formation, has been introduced In the
Senate. and Is in the hands OF the
Committee on Roads and Internal Nav
igation. Along with this bill. several
others experimenting It and providing
machinery for the raising OF funds and
for the carrying out OF the idea en-
bodied in the commissions recommen-
dations, also found their way before
the General Assembly last week.
Senators Goodrich. Robertson ana
Byrd. all members of the commission.
are patrons of the new bills. Their
Idea Is TO systcmatize the high
ways OF the State that no importan
point will be without adequate facili-
ties for overland transportation. II is
in line with the Federal plan OF post
roads, in the construction OF which
States arc TO be given Federal aid to
the exact extent that they aid them
selves. With the new system in oper-
alton 800, 900 OF Federal money would
be available for road construction In
Virginia during the next two years. TO
get this tho State would have TO cx-
pend an equal sum.
MOTOR TAX TO BE
USED FOR MAINTENANCE
Maintenance OF the system would
como from motor vehicle Licences.
which now bring into the State Treas
ury about 100000 annually. One Of
the bills introduced provides for tho
setting aside OF this money for main
tenAnee purposes.
Another OF the bila would permit
The State Highway Commission to
purchase Guarries and gravel pits and
10 employ a State convict road force.
Sill another provides that the local
road board OF each county shall formu-
late and lay out n system OF county
roads In their respective counties. TO
include the main Travelled highways OF
said counties. and shall certify the
same to the State Highway Commits
s!oner for his approval" and adds that
no changes be made in this plan ex-
cept by the consent OF the commits
sioncr. After certifcation has been
made. the counties can make applica-
ton to the State for aid which is TO be
half the total sum TO be expended.
Amendment TO the Constitution so that
bonds for road construction Is pro-
vided Cor In one of the bills.
TENT OF BILL
CREATING STATE ROADS
The bill creating tho system reads:
BE IL enacted by the General Assem-
bly, OF Virginia, That there he. and
hereby Is, created and established
The state Highway system" to con-
sist Of roads ana projects. running
from and TO the following points:
Primary Donds.
I. Wellington. Lorton. Dumfries.
stafford. Fredericksburg. Chil.sbure.
Negro, Richmond. Petersburg. Dinwid-
die. Warheld. I.awrcnceviilc. South
lin. Clarksville--North Carolina line.
2. Maryland line-Leesburg Aide,
Plains, Warrenton, Culpeper. Madison
Mills, Orange. Gordonsvillc. Palmyra,
Dnlwyn. Farmv!ilc. kcysville. Wylies-
burg-North Carolina limo.
3. West Virginia linc-w
Harrisonburg. stanton. Lexington.
Natural Bridge. Buchanan. Roanoke.
Rocky Mount. Martinsville, Ridgeway
North Carolina line.
4. Maryland llne-Accomac, Esstville,
Cape Charles.
6. Norfolk. Suffolk, Franklin. Court
land, Petersburg, Richmond.
6. Alexandria. Fairfax, Aide. Mid
Gore-west Virginia line.
{. Reedsville and lrvington. IIeaths-
Vile Warsaw. Montross, King George.
Fredericksburg. Stcvensburg. Culpeper,
Washington. Va. Front Royal, Win
chester-West Virginia line.
s. Mathews. Saluda. Tappahannock.
Fort Royal. Fredericksburg.
Q. Old Point. Hampton. Newport
News, Williamsburg. Richmond. Ne
gro. Mineral. Louisa, Trevilians Cob.
ham. Charlottesville. Alton, Waynes-
horo. Stanton. Chufchvillc. Monterey
West Virginia line. This also in
cludes a line from Jamestown. wils
liam sburg, Yorktown. Gloucester Point.
Gloucester Courthouse, to connect with
line from Saluda 10 West Point.
I,Ichmohd.
10. Virginia Beach, Norfolk. Suffolk.
Smithheld. Surry Courthouse. Peters
burg. Blackstone, Nottoway, Farmvile.
Appomattox. Lynchburg, Bedford. Roa
noke. Salem. Christianeb Dublin.
Pulaski Wytherille, Marion. Abingdon.
Bristol. Gate city stickleyvilie. PEN
ninEton Gep. Ben Hur. Jonesville.
Cumberland Gap. with a connection
from Abingdon. Cireondale. Bolton and
10 Route No. II. in Russell County.
IL. West Virginia line-Graham,
farewell. Rosedale, Lebanon. Hanson
Vile. Bolton. Old Courthouse. St Paul.
Coehurn. Norton. Big stone Gap. PEN
nlnston Gap, Cumberland Gap.
Secondary line from Coeburn to
Clintwood and the Kentucky line, and
Clintwood to Grundy.
IL. Virginia Beach. Norfolk. Suffolk,
Franklin, CORTLAND. Emporia. Law
renceville, South HILL Chase City.
Houston. Danville. Martinsville, Stuart,
IIillsville, GaIax, independence, to a