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1996 SESSION

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 95 Expressing the sense of the General Assembly in connection with the Virginia segment of the Trans-America Highway.

Agreed to by the Senate, February 27, 1996 Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 23, 1996

WHEREAS, in recent years, several proposals were put forward in support of creating a new transcontinental super highway across the United States between the East Coast and the West Coast; and

WHEREAS, one such proposed segment would lead through Central Virginia to some point on the Atlantic coast; and

WHEREAS, Interstate Highway 81 links Southwest Virginia with Northern Virginia and U. S. Route 58, the subject of its own reconstruction and expansion program, connects Southwest Virginia with Southeastern Virginia along the North Carolina boundary, and Interstate Route 64 carries traffic from West Virginia along the Interstate Route 81 corridor through Richmond to Southeastern Virginia, but no comparable super highway ties Central Virginia to Southwest, Northern, or Southeastern Virginia; and

WHEREAS, it is thus highly desirable that the alignment of any Trans-America Highway segment from Kentucky to Eastern Virginia should pass through Virginia along the alignment designated by the federal government; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That appropriate plans and studies be undertaken by the Department of Transportation under the direction of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to actively encourage and expeditiously prepare, in conjunction with the states of West Virginia and Kentucky, a feasibility study for the Trans-America Highway; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the Secretary of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner in order that they may be apprised of the sense of the General Assembly in this matter.