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The intersection of Routes 29 and 666 has scared the school board for years now. Even before it chose to build Eastern View High School there.
Long regarded as one of the county's deadliest intersections, 29/666 regularly sees crashes, and suffered a fatality in 2001. Vehicles routinely blow through red lights. And the school system had a bus crash there in 1988, when a collision with a dump truck sent several elementary school children to the hospital.
But funding cuts of more than $600 million to Virginia's transportation departments will leave safety improvements here unfunded. Work could start in 2010, say officials – Eastern View opens this fall.
"When you get teenagers at the end of school – it is not good," said Butch Davies, who sits on the state's Commonwealth Transportation Board. "I am very concerned about it."
That intersection is far from the only project that faces delays.
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