Road to Nowhere on NPR

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
. com...
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Combine that with the bridge to nowhere and you can get nowhere in a
hurry...

Maybe a new website...nowhere.gov (aka lost.gov) or maybe a redirect from
DOH!.gov...

Mark

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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A mere $600 million for a road to nowhere? As a spokesman for
Halliburton would say, "That's so cute."

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote ...
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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 took a BP trip to the GSMNP a few years ago. Parked at the lot just
before the end of the road. Great trip up Forney Creek and down thru
Andrew's Bald.

Pictures out now.....

Thanks...

Dan
...and yes, I carried an alcohol stove on that trip. Knew just how much fuel
I had left, also. ;-)

Daniel-San wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote ...
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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.

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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An option would be to buy every resident of the island their own
Higgins boat, (modernized version of course} and a nice landing area at
each end. To bad Halliburton doesn't build boats.

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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An option would be to buy every resident of the island their own
Higgins boat, (modernized version of course} and a nice landing area at
each end. To bad Halliburton doesn't build boats.

"BJ Conner" wrote


An option would be to buy every resident of the island their own
Higgins boat, (modernized version of course} and a nice landing area at
each end. To bad Halliburton doesn't build boats.

hilarious, and decipherable to boot.

yfitons
wayno

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
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An option would be to buy every resident of the island their own
Higgins boat, (modernized version of course} and a nice landing area at
each end. To bad Halliburton doesn't build boats.

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.