
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 26, 1991                   TAG: 9102260141
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B/3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BRISTOL                                LENGTH: Short

LOCAL ROADS INCLUDED IN PAVEMENT STUDY

Twelve primary and interstate highways, including two in Southwest Virginia, will be in a pavement performance study to help show how to build longer-lasting roads.

More than 1,000 sites are being studied nationwide.

The Virginia Department of Transportation and the Washington, D.C.-based Strategic Highway Research Program are conducting the 20-year study. Two of the test sites are a section of U.S. 23 in Norton, which is about two miles north of Virginia 89, and a section of U.S. 19 in Richlands, which is a half-mile south of Virginia 644.

The sites average a quarter-mile in length and will be monitored for two decades to see how the pavement stands up to traffic and weather. - Southwest bureau

by CNB