Chesapeake, Va. (WTKR) - Chesapeake City Council has approved funding for a program to help improve rural roads.
The Rural Roads Safety Improvement Program was part of the budget amendments approved Tuesday night.
It has an initial budget of one million dollars that will be available to wide road lanes and shoulders.
"I have a 12 year old son. He’s going to be driving in the next 4 years and I mean it’s one of those deal that you are going to be thinking about that. We live out here in the rural roads and anything we can make them safer would be better," driver Toby Davis told News 3's Todd Corillo Friday.
The city can also use the money to make improvements to ditches where the city already has sufficient right-of-way or where land-owners voluntarily give right-of-way to Chesapeake.
Which roads could be improved under the program were not identified in the proposal for the program.
