DUMFRIES, Va. -- Increased truck traffic with tankers carrying ethanol has become an issue facing commuters, residents, and Dumfries town officials and residents.
The trucks would travel from U.S. 1 in Dumfries to the winding, 2-lane Possum Point Road to a Nustar Energy facility on the connecting Cockpit Point Road.
On Possum Point Road, residents’ homes line the street. On U.S. 1, traffic is already congested, and the increased truck traffic would mean at least 50 trucks per day traveling in and out of the town.
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