The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-01-05
Bridge Construction,
Maintenance Got 1859
Secondary Road Stress
Parker Reviews
Works Projects
In Residency

In the highway residency Of Buck
ingham, Cumberland and Prince
Edward counties. 1859 emphasis
was on genera improvements
through maintenance and replace
ments by strengthening unpaved
school bus and mail routes, super
elevating curves and lengthening
sight distance by brush cutting.
Resident Engineer j. L. Parker, OF
Dillwyn, said this week.
In Buckingham county "a miles OF
hard surfaced roads were given new
bitlminous surfaces as were q
miles in Cumberland county and 36
miles in Prince Edward.
Other improvements in Bucklng-
ham county included three roads
graded and stabilized. three small.
weak bridges replaced with new
steel beam spans, one weak bridge
replaced with culvert, and three
structures strengthened to carry 10
tons or more.
The sections graded and stabilized
were 4.8 miles on Route 600, FL
miles on Route 6O4 and % miles on
Route 632. The bridges were over a
branch of Slate River on Route GAG.
Rocky Run Greek on Route GIL and
Whispering Creek on Route 1856.
A $4,000 federal-aid secondary
project just completed eliminated
an old bridge on Route 608 Wen
able's Bridge over Appomattox
River at the Buckingham Prince
Edward county line north of Pros
pect. A ST. 900 federal-aid secondary
project eliminated an old bridge
and nearly a mile of old road on
the Darlington Heights Road Route
665l west of Worsham.
In Prince Edward county SO
miles of new hard surfacing was
applied on Route $50, completing
the blacktopping of this route from
US AGO east of Farmville to US Is
south of WorSham.
A new bridge over Angola Greek
en- Route 673 was completed and
another weak span was strength
ened to carry 10 tons or more in
Cumberland county.
Resident Engineer William c.
Poston. of Amelia. reported a new
bridge and approaches were built
IN ~ nnf a
federal-aid secondary project, one
was built by state forces on Route
687 at NibbS Creek, and two
structures were strengthened An
other federalaid bridge and APP
proaches are under construction at
West Greek on Route 614 south of
Amelia and expected to be com
pleted by June.
Poston said 46 miles of unpaved
school bus and mail routes in
Amelia county were strengthened
by the addition of crushed stone and
80 miles of paved secondary roads
we're given new bitunlinous sur
faces.
The county has 1886 miles of
secondary roads, of which 1875 miles
are hard surfaced.
Sections graded and stabilized in
Amelia county included Ia miles on
Route 635, CO mile on Route 662
to a dead end and 0.45 mile on the
approaches to Flat Greek bridge.
Major primary highway improve
mentS included the completion OF
"a miles of reconstruction on US
Route 400 with bypass of Rice,
between Farmville and Burkeville;
widening Us 60 to 40 feet and
building curbS, cutters and side
walks, through Cumberland Court
House 4.3 miles of reconstruction
on US Route IS south of Sprouses,
and the beginning of work on a new
Appomattox River bridge and street
widening on Route As at Far1nvllle
Work on the bridge was halted by
the steel strike.
Work also was under way during
the year on grading to begin the
dividing of US Route $50 between
Burkeville and Keysville. Nearly
nine miles of US Route 60 and IL
miles of Route Is in Cumberland
county were given new bituminous
surfaces.
Statewide. the outstanding 1855
improvements on the 4l.7O0mile
Secondary System we're in the re.
placement of substandard bridges
the restoration of road surfaces ard
in increased maintenance Of the
lower class secondary roads. par
ticularly school bus and mail routes
New road construction was con.
fined almost entirely TO Federal
Aid Secondary projects. During the
year. lis new bridges we're com
pleted and more than 5000 miles Of
worn paved roads were given new
bitur1inouS surfaces at q cost o.
about 81 200 per mile. Weak places
in thousands of miles of lJlnpaved
roads we're stabilized.
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