More than seventy individuals and all three county commissioners attended the Monday, March 31, Putnam County Transportation Committee meeting. The committee meets every two months and usually draws about a dozen interested citizens and a single commissioner.

The vast majority of those present came to express their direct opposition to the West Virginia Department of Highways plan to widen Teays Valley Road from Great Teays Boulevard near Kroger Apple Lane past Scott-Teays Elementary. The widening…