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City Joins in to Help Improve, Widen WV Route 2 Save Email Print
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Posted: 6:31 PM Sep 21, 2008
Last Updated: 6:31 PM Sep 21, 2008
Reporter: Leslie Cebula
Email Address: leslie.cebula@wtap.com

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A local group has been working for years to improve and widen sections of West Virginia Route 2 and now the city of Parkersburg is joining in.

West Virginia Route 2 and Interstate 68 Authority members asked Parkersburg Mayor Bob Newell a few weeks ago to propose a resolution to City Council.

He brought it to City Council recently and it'll go before council members Tuesday.

The resolution though, doesn't mean the city will help fund it.

It's a resolution to show support to the state that improving and widening West Virginia Route 2 needs to be a high priority for state and federal funding.

"It would make a much better route north to Wheeling and those areas, Pittsburgh, and other areas like that because you know right now if you want to go with any speed, you really need to get on the interstate and go to Cambridge get on Interstate 70 and then go back to West Virginia.
It would just be very beneficial to all the counties along the Ohio River," Parkersburg Mayor Bob Newell.

The project includes an I-68 connector from Morgantown to West Virginia Route 2.

Monday there is an authority meeting open to the public at Pleasants County Senior Services on 209 2nd Street in Saint Marys. The meeting starts at 6 p.m.

Department of highway officials will also be there.

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