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Prevent the Ruin of Stecoah Valley!
As presently planned, a new, four-lane highway will soon cut through the most scenic and pristine section of our remaining mountain refuge; it's a ten-mile long, $378 million swath of destruction estimated to save insignificant travel time for interstate commerce. And this is the least expensive portion of an interstate road planned to run from Stecoah to Andrews, NC via Robbinsville.
The existing roadway between Robbinsville and Stecoah, NC (NC28 and NC143) can be improved, completing the regional corridor and taking commercial trucks out of the Nantahala Gorge. The DOT admits that our current roads will handle traffic adequately for at least 20 more years, and with supplemental shipping done by railroads, this model should be sufficient for many years more.
The proposed new highway is not only unnecessary, unwise, outmoded, and unaffordable; it squanders and depletes the limited funds available for urgently-needed infrastructure repairs of our bridges, roads, and railroads.
You can stop this destructive and unnecessary project!
Please submit comments in writing by December 4, 2009 to:
Mr. Ed Lewis, NCDOT
Human Environment Unit
1598 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1598
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