Corridor H at Halfway Mark: ; After 40 Years, 66 Miles of Highway Are Open to Traffic
Charleston Gazette › September 22, 2009
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MOOREFIELD - Despite construction costs that have more than doubled, a construction-halting lawsuit and a barrage of criticism from environmentalists, media pundits and government spending watchdog groups, Appalachian Corridor H has finally made it to the halfway point.
While facing new funding challenges, its backers are confident that strong public and political support for the highway will eventually allow them, or at least their children, to travel the 133- mile freeway through West Virginia's Allegheny Highlands swiftly and safely.See the full content of this document
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Corridor H at Halfway Mark: ; After 40 Years, 66 Miles of Highway Are Open to Traffic
The recent opening of a 7.5-mile stretch of the freeway east of the new South Branch Bridge put Corridor H - the last, longest and costliest of six Appalachian Highway Development System highways to be built in West Virginia - past the midway point in terms of completed mileage. Sixty-six miles of the corridor are now open to traffic, including a 20-mile stretch from Wardensville to Moorefield in Hardy County, and a 43-mile section from Weston in Lewis County to Kerens in Randolph County.
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