Future
Route 9 has been the subject of considerable debate. West Virginia has constructed a four-lane expressway by-pass of the former Route 9 - a winding two-lane rural road - to U.S. Route 340 in Charles Town. The expressway ends at Route 9 at the Virginia state line, raising concerns in Loudoun County about increasing traffic along the road's narrow, winding stretch through the town of Hillsboro. A proposed bypass of Hillsboro was considered as part of the County's long range transportation plan, debated publicly, and rejected by the County Board of Supervisors in June 2010. Instead, the town of Hillsboro is studying traffic calming measures in hopes of encouraging West Virginia traffic to detour through Clarke County via U.S. Route 340 and Virginia State Route 7.
The Virginia Legislature voted to make Virginia State Route 9 (the entire length) a Virginia Byway on March 21, 2002.
Read more about this topic: Virginia State Route 9
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“The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
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To sound unlike a birthday card,
That’s all this is: so you may find it
Full of all that lies behind it
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—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Today democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with such ideas. They stand in the way of action. Therefore we frankly abolish them. In the future each man will serve the interest of the state with absolute obedience. Let him who refuses beware.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)