ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Saturday, July 20, 1996                TAG: 9607220052
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-1  EDITION: METRO 


MOVING ON DOWN THE ROAD


LENGTH: Short :   21 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  WAYNE DEEL/Staff. The extension of Peters Creek Road in 

Roanoke from The Plaza of Roanoke-Salem (top, center) to Shenandoah

Avenue (foreground) should be completed by December, if weather

permits, officials at the Virginia Department of Transportation say.

A portion of Shenandoah has been moved for the project, and two

lanes of what will eventually be a new four-lane section of

Shenandoah were opened to traffic this week. The second phase of the

Peters Creek Road extension, which will take it south to Brandon

Avenue, should be open by summer 1998. color.

by CNB