THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: Tuesday, February 28, 1995 TAG: 9502280007 SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL TYPE: Letter LENGTH: Short : 22 lines
Your editorial advocating a Hampton Roads Beltway (``Fewer tourists lost,'' Feb. 24) refers to the Norfolk-Virginia Beach Expressway as ``I-44 in Virginia Beach.'' You are wrong by about 1,000 miles!
I-44 runs from Texas (Wichita Falls, I think) to St. Louis, Mo. It doesn't come anywhere near Virginia.
The section of the Expressway that runs through Virginia Beach is not an interstate highway at all. It is Virginia state Route 44.
CHRIS ASTLE
Newport News, Feb. 24, 1995 by CNB