how anybody (other than those who want an easy drive to a cemetery) can
think building a 600 million dollar road (it was estimated at 400 a few
months ago and it'll be 800 a few months from now)is worthy of
consideration when the locals have agreed to accept 52 million, well,
hell...i guess i am just a simple fuktard after all. the road will
absolutely destroy one of the finest remaining rural auto-free
landscapes and backcountry locations in the southeast, not to mention
the negative effects on the fishing & wildlife. no one is keeping those
who want to visit family cemeteries from doing so...in fact, the park
service accommodates their wishes in an admirable fashion. those folks
don't visit 24/7...the tourists do, and they'll be all over that road
like flies on stink. may as well build a paved highway to the third
meadow of slough creek while they are at it.

fortenberry on the fence about a paved road on the north shore of the
GSMNP?? ...man, i feel something with wings emerging from my butt.

jeff

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Daniel-San wrote:

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote ...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5218050


I take no side on whether or not the road should be continued, as I
don't know enough about the issue. But, I do want to thank you for
posting the link. ...


I don't know which side I'm on in this either. On the one
hand building a road through that part of the Park is costly
and unwise and I usually take the environmentalist side, but
on the other hand a lot of Fortenberrys were displaced when
TVA built the dam at Guntersville, Alabama and I know that
side of the issue too.