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10/06, Southern Environmental Law Center
Interstates 3 and 14: SELC joins with citizens in opposing massive interstate projects
"A proposal to cut a new interstate across the South has sparked a multi-state, grassroots effort to stop the project before it gets started. Proposed Interstate 3 would run approximately 400 miles from Knoxville to Savannah, tearing through wetlands, fields and forests and threatening the economic vitality of rural communities along the way." Read more...

9/25/06, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Road budgets battered by rapidly rising costs
"The conversation with state transportation planners last year is seared in Jack Conway's brain. Months before, rising prices had bumped the cost to widen McGinnis Ferry Road in Forsyth and Fulton counties from just over $20 million to about $35 million, Conway says. It was unprecedented, and it was going to hurt. And now here they were again, sitting in a government conference room, everyone vaguely aware of what was coming, no one ready for the number." Read more...

9/21/06
Towns County Poll: 93.2% Oppose I-3 There
On September 21, 2006, a vote was requested by Towns County Commissioner Bill Kendall and conducted by the TC Board of Elections. This poll was well-advertised and formally conducted. A total of 536 voters participated overall, even though the poll was open for only 2.5 hours. The question: "Should I-3 be constructed through Towns County?" was included among other questions on the ballot. On the question of I-3, 93.2% voted against construction through Towns Co. with 36 people voting "yes" and 497 people voting "no." These results are certified by the Towns County Board of Elections, Jonni Marie Shook, Chairwoman.

7/06, Sierra Club Newsletter
Proposed Interstate Would Ravage Southern Appalachians

"The Dragon’s Tail. For 30 miles, US Hwy 129 snakes around the western end of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park like a roller coaster. Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest stands a mere stone’s throw to the south. It’s about the worst place imaginable to put an interstate highway, but that’s what Georgia’s Representative Charles Norwood and Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson have proposed. Dubbed I-3, it would extend from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Savannah, Georgia." Read more...

6/06, Road & Track Magazine
The Tail of the Dragon

America's most addictive roads? Read more...

6/28/06, Smoky Mountain News
Momentum keeps building for Stop I-3 coalition

"The Stop I-3 Coalition — the grassroots organization that aims to prevent construction of a proposed interstate running from Savannah to Knoxville — has received a boost to its efforts as the Southwestern Regional Planning Commission has come out against the proposed interstate’s construction. “Construction of an interstate highway through the rugged terrain of southwestern North Carolina would have a devastating environmental, economic, cultural and aesthetic impact on these mountains, including the Nantahala National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” according to the resolution issued by the Southwestern Commission." Read more...

3/8/06 - Cherokee Sentinel
I-3 would devastate mountains
"County commissioners approve resolution opposing federal highway
A federal interstate highway constructed through our mountains would have a "devastating environmental and economic" impact on our mountains, the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners proclaimed in opposition to the proposed I-3." Read more...

2/21/06 - The Dahlonega Nugget
Lumpkin County joins others opposed to I-3
"Lumpkin County joined the ranks of other north Georgia counties in objecting to the construction of any proposed interstate highway in the region last week." Read more...

2/22/06 - Cherokee Sentinel
Commissioners oppose I-3

"The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners went on record Monday as opposing construction of I-3. . . . “We have the most beautiful valley in the United States,” Commissioner Barbara Vicknair said. 'I don’t want to see an interstate go through it.'" Read more...

2/8/06 - Smoky Mountain News
Macon takes official stand against I-3

"The Stop I-3 Coalition received a major boost in its efforts to prevent construction of a new highway that would connect Savannah, Ga., to Knoxville, Tenn., by way of Western North Carolina when Macon County Commissioners on Monday night (Feb. 6) became the first WNC government to pass a resolution against the highway." Read more...

1/17/06 - The Franklin Press
Stop I-3 Coalition gets support from state Senator John Snow

"North Carolina Senator John Snow (D-Murphy) was a guest speaker at a Stop I-3 Coalition rally hosted by the League of Women Voters at the Tartan Hall Thursday. It was a full house with approximately 80 people attending. Another expected speaker, N.C. Representative Roger West (R-Marble), could not attend due to work-related conflicts. Snow said he is against the idea of I-3 route coming into our area, citing concerns about construction damaging the pristine landscape when the interstate isn't needed or wanted." Read more...