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The West Virginia Senate Economic Development Committee approved Senate Bill 571, which would create a board to facilitate economic development in the Corridor H area. The board would include representatives of economic development agencies in Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, Rsndolph, Tucker, Grant and Hardy counties.
Development of Corridor H in West Virginia has drawn mounting concerns over feared environmental impacts from the project despite assurances those impacts won't happen from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the West Virginia Department of Transportation's Division of Highways. The unfinished Parsons-to-Davis and Wardensville-to-Virginia state line segments of the project have drawn scrutiny.
White's Ferry, the last working ferry on the Potomac River, shut down three years ago because of a dispute over access to the Virginia landing in Loudoun County near Leesburg.
Several initiatives at the federal and state levels have promised to fund more pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure and reduce a steadily increasing amount of traffic deaths. Is it finally enough for Virgina to adequately fund Vision Zero initiatives?
In 2022, the number of road fatalities in the commonwealth broke 1,000 for the first time in 15 years, with people walking and biking comprising a disproportionate share of deaths. However, late last month House Republicans killed Roem’s proposal to dedicate 10% of Virginia’s budget surplus to safety improvements.