ROCKY MOUNT, Va. (WDBJ) — Penny Blue has spent months pushing for a second exit and a new bridge on Diamond Avenue in Rocky Mount.
“If someone has a heart attack, if someone has a stroke, seconds count,” said Penny Blue, PAC chair for the Franklin County NAACP. “If someone’s house is on fire, seconds count.”
Easement discovered from 2013
Blue said she recently learned developers platted an emergency access easement in 2013 — a legal path to Sycamore Street designed for emergency vehicles if the neighborhood is cut off. She said it was never built.
“I would ask the Board of Supervisors. I would ask the town. Do they care about this community behind the tracks?” Blue said.
Residents take questions to supervisors
Raven Brown, a resident of the Diamond Avenue extension community, brought questions about the easement to the Board of Supervisors meeting…