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0/\ Uu TUESDAY MARCH 23, 1971 AGREEMENT: The City of Martinsville, State of Virginia, hereinafter referred to as Martinsville, and the Virginia Department of Highways, hereinafter referred to as the Highway Department, hereby agree as follows: 1. That the Highway Department will prosecute a project for the improvement of 1.708 miles of Route 57 within Martinsville from Int. W. Church Street to Int. Rte. 57, Station lO+06.56, to Station l43+24, designated as Route 57, Project 0057-l20-l03, PE-lOl, RW-201, C-50l, B-60l, B-602, B-603, B-604. This includes a connection on Fairy Street. 2. Martinsville hereby approves the plans as designed and requests the Highway Department to prosecute the aforementioned project with recommendation that it be approved and agrees that if such project is approved and constructed by the Highway Department, it, thereafter, at its own cost and expense, will maintain the project, or have it maintained, in a manner satisfactory to the Highway Department, or its authorized representatives, and will make ample provision each year for such maintenance. 3. Martinsville hereby agrees that the location, form and character of informational, regulatory, warning signs, curb and pavement or other markings and traffic signals, installed or placed by any public authority, or other agency, shall be subject to the approval of the Highway Department. 4. Parking will be prohibited at all times on both sides of this project as above described. This also applied to the connection on Fairy Street. 5. At places where parking is prohibited, the appropriate NO PARKING signs shall be erected. The size, design and color of such signs shall conform to the standards as shown in the latest edition of the Manual ~ Uniform Traffic Control Devices. 6. Upon completion of rights-of-way acquisition and construction, the State Highway Commissioner will convey rights-of-way title to Martinsville. 7. Martinsville agrees that after construction of the project, or any part thereof, it will not permit any reduction in the number or width of traffic lanes, additional median crossovers, enlargement of existing median crossovers, or alterations of channelization islands, without the prior approval of the Highway Department. 8. Martinsville agrees to participate in the actual cost of this project in accordance with the following tabulation, understanding that the costs shown are estimated and the percentages will be applied to actual costs: