ROBERTSON ACT SAVED SECTION
Richmond District Allocations for the Past Year Were $536,000.
FAST TIME ON ROADS
Completion of Pocahontas Trail to Newport News One of Big Jobs.
Great progress war made this year in the completion of Virginia highways despite the limited funds which were available for the state highway system. The Robertson Act saved the situation in the Richmond section of state, funds advanced under its terms being responsible for much of the road construction around Richmond. The district's allocations for the state system for the year totaled only $536,000.
During the winter weather conditions were unusually, good and contractors made fast time on road contracts. Continuous rains fell in the and early summer and construction fell. In the late summer and during the fall weather conditions improved with the result that many sections of the state system were completed.
The year saw the completion of the Newport News highway known as the Pocahontas Trail. The work this year was between Richmond and Toano, a distance of 41.3 miles. This, like that of the highway from Toano to this coast, is of concrete except a stretch of 5.2 miles of asphaltic concrete between Richmond and Seven Pines and a link of ten miles of gravel between Bottoms Bridge and Providence Forge. The road between Bottoms Bridge and New Kent Courthouse was graded and drained and graveled during the year. This is thirteen miles in length.
- News Leader, 27 December 1924
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