Governor Bredesen Says Tennessee May Re-evaluate Roads Near Rocks Watchlist
Submitted by WDEF on November 18, 2009 - 7:40pm.
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Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen weighs in on the prospects of addressing areas on a watch list for possible rock slides after the incident on Highway 64 last week.
Bredesen says federal funds, along with the state's gas tax pay for all road projects in Tennessee. He says the state is pressed to do a lot of work with a declining amount of money. Bredesen says he's asked T-DOT's Commissioner to review the project priority list. "I've talked to Commissioner Nicely and he's taking a rung through some of these other areas where they may need some work and seeing if we should move anything up on the list just as we did with bridges a couple of years ago."
Bredesen says Commissioner Nicely will also review whether any work associated with slide mitigation, like an environmental impact study, might qualify for stimulus funding.
NOTE: An earlier version of this story attributed the Governor's comments to the Corridor K bypass. We regret the confusion.
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Corridor K is a bad idea
The idea of building a four lane expressway / tunnel through this kind of topography in and around any National Forest is completely preposterous. When did the political brain trust of this country get it in their heads that commercializing a publicly owned, protected by congress, wilderness area was a sound idea? This proposed roadway in today's times is "old school thinking" and someone with some remaining brain cells left in their head needs to step back and and really analyze what the impact would really be to the entire area. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) proposed this idea back in the early 1960's and back then it made a little sense with trying to improve improvised areas of Appalachia and make a difference in the lives of the
mountain citizens. Now over 40 years later the effort is still being pushed at an unbelievable cost to the tax payer. Over and over again environmental impact studies are done at a tremendous cost to the tax payer and then is
scrapped just to spend another chunk of money and start the entire process over and bring forth another set of bad ideas to the table that has the same result of ruining the environmental aspect of this unique and alleged protected area. If the vision of truck stops, Motel 6, Hardees, gas stations and all the other pollution generating accompaniments is what is the
political agenda and vision for our National Forest you might as well just light a match and set it a blaze and tell Smokey The Bear his tenor as public icon of our National Forest is over and he can now maybe find a new job at the new local Super-Wal-mart as the "greater" because this is what will happen when this so called progress and sprawl creep into this beautiful area.
Corridor K was a bad idea to start with, fix the road that is already there and be done with it.