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July 27, 2005
Federal studies cast doubt on economic benefit of
Interstates
July 26, 2005
Mountain communities organize to fight new interstate
highway
July 9, 2005
Rabun commissioners declare unanimous opposition
to Interstate
July 4, 2005
Rabun residents form Stop I-3 chapter,
Urge large turn-out at board meet Thursday
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News from Stop I-3 Coalition Rabun Chapter
For immediate release, July 4, 2005
Rabun residents form Stop I-3 chapter,
urge large turn-out at board meet Thursday
The STOP I-3 Rabun Chapter urges all Rabun residents to turn
out for the county commissioners' Town Hall meeting Thursday,
July 7, at 6 p.m. to signal their concern over proposals to
run a new Interstate Highway through the mountains of north
Georgia.
"Now is the time to stand up and be counted to help
stop this road," said Lucy Ezzard Bartlett, spokeswoman
for the chapter.
"An awful lot of people are saying this is a done deal,
but no one checked with us first," she said. "Now,
they're going to hear from the people this would most affect.
Just because some few officials cut a deal in the backrooms
of Washington, Atlanta and Beijing does not make it right.
"We must make our voices heard, first at the Town Hall
meeting, with the Commissioners on Thursday evening and then
on to Congress. I urge each of you to write not only your
Congressmen for whom you can vote, but also the members of
the committees on the Budget and Transportation in both House
and Senate.
"In fact, this road is wrong for the mountains, wrong
for our economy and very, very wrong for our mountain way
of life," Bartlett said. Rabun citizens should be particularly
concerned because US 441, which is already undergoing major
widening from Tallulah Falls to North Carolina, will almost
surely become an Interstate construction alternative, she
said.
"The people of other mountain counties are already
making their opposition to this highway known. We must start
with a huge turnout on Thursday to let the politicians know
that we don't want this road," Bartlett said.
The Stop I-3 Rabun Chapter believes construction of such
a huge road running right through the mountains (about 1,000
feet of right-of-way, along a total of between 430 and 450
miles from Savannah to Knoxville) would have a vast detrimental
effect on local farms, businesses and tourism; further damage
national forestlands; endanger rather than enhance safety
and security; and erode an entire way of life that works in
harmony with natural resources. |
