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3/19/08, Augusta Chronicle
Highway plan criticized: Opponents want alternate route
'Opponents of a proposed interstate highway from Savannah to Knoxville, Tenn., hope to move its potential route to South Carolina to avoid any environmental or economic disruption of north Georgia's mountains.
"We don't want I-3 at all," said Reagan Williams, an aide to 10th District U.S. Rep. Paul Broun.' Read more...
February, 2008, Upstate Update, Number 91
Stop I-3 through South Carolina!
"Upstate Forever's Board of Directors voted unanimously on January 15 to
oppose the study of a new interstate corridor (tentatively named I-3) which
would connect Savannah to Knoxville." Read more...
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2/14/08, The Post and Courier |
1/21/08, Anderson Independent-Mail
I-3:
Highway to progress or ruin?
Environmentalists oppose proposed interstate route
"Economic developers and politicians often
see highways as the path to better living, while
environmentalists and conservationists see highways
as the road to more congestion and pollution.
The two sides are beginning to crank up their
engines as the proposed Interstate 3 turns from
talk to studies, and the possibilities of a new
interstate route become more real." Read
more...
1/16/08, Flagpole
Remember This One?
"Remember
This One?: It had been a while since the proposed
Interstate 3 - you know, the one that would blast
through the mountains on its way from
Savannah to Knoxville - had been in the news,
and you might have even been forgiven if you had figured I-3 for dying a slow death,
but the start of the year brought news that our
Congressman, Paul Broun, has been feeling out
a change to I-3’s route that would push
part of the road into South Carolina and keep
it out of Georgia’s mountains. Funny thing:
all the news reports agree that Broun opposed
the road when he was campaigning; now
here he comes implying that with a detour it might
not be so bad after all. At least the environmentalists
and mountain-lovers of the Stop I-3 Coalition
[ www.stopi-3.org ] aren’t fooled."
...with permission from fFlagpole, author news editor Ben Emanuel in City Dope: Athens news and views section, originally published, Jan. 16, 2008.
1/15/08, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Corridor
K alternate proposal draws fire
'GREASY
CREEK, Tenn. -- A road built across Little
Frog Mountain near the Ocoee Gorge would leave
a footprint, no matter how "green" roadbuilders
made it, environmentalists said this week. "There's
ways to build highway with less impact," said
Holly Demuth, executive director of the Stop
I-3 Coalition. "But it still brings in 18-wheelers."' Read
more...
1/15/08, Anderson Independent-Mail
Upstate Forever opposes
Interstate 3 study for South Carolina
'Upstate
Forever, one of the leading conservation groups
that helped save Stumphouse Mountain in Oconee
County, took a stance Tuesday against studying
an interstate highway through South Carolina.The
proposed Interstate 3 that was originally planned
through northeast Georgia from Savannah to Knoxville,
Tenn., now is being considered for a portion
of South Carolina that could include U.S. 25. “It
was a bad idea for Georgia. It’s
a bad idea for South Carolina,” said Brad
Wyche, executive director of Upstate Forever.' Read
more...
1/9/08,
Anderson Independent-Mail
Congressman says interstate plan
for north Georgia not economically feasible
'A
new interstate highway through the mountains
of North Georgia would not be economically feasible
and environmentally harmful, according to U.S.
Rep. Paul Broun. “(Interstate) 3 as currently
proposed is just totally economically not viable,” said
Rep. Broun, R-Ga. “ If they tried to build
the road, the cost would be so high that it would
require high totals to build the road, and that’s
just never going to happen.” When he won
the House of Representatives seat left vacant
after the death of Charlie Norwood, Rep. Broun
inherited a plan to study a proposal for putting
I-3 through north Georgia as a means to get from
Knoxville, Tenn., to Savannah. Rep. Broun said
he believes a corridor is necessary to bring
economic growth to the 10th Congressional District
in Georgia, which he represents, but he disagrees
with the proposed route of the highway.' Read
more...
1/9/08, Smoky Mountain News
DOT road hearings have potential for controversy
"A public hearing on dozens of proposed road projects
in the region — including the controversial
Southern Loop in Jackson County, the Siler Road
extension in Macon County, and Corridor K through
Swain County — will be held from 2 to 4 p.m.
on Tuesday, Jan. 15, outside Andrews." Read
more...
1/8/08, Athens Banner-Herald
Broun seeks new route for proposed interstate
"An East Georgia congressman says he will work to
push the route of a proposed Interstate 3 east into
South Carolina, but opposition groups still are against
the plan. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, said Monday
that he has talking to representatives of the Federal
Highway Administration about shifting the basic
path of the Savannah-to-Knoxville interstate
to pass through Greenville or Clinton, S.C.,
instead of through the mountains." Read
more...
1/7/08, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Despite route change, road could still impact Southern Appalachians, environmentalists
say
"Environmentalists in Georgia and North Carolina
said Monday the proposed interstate from Savannah,
Ga., to Knoxville remains a threat to the region,
even if it skirts the mountains. The proposed
road, called "Interstate 3" or
I-3 for short, has not been designated as an
interstate, but has been proposed as one, officials
said. U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., said this
week the route of the highway could pass the
Northeast Georgia mountains and instead head
for Greenville, S.C. Holly Demuth, executive
director of the Stop I-3 Coalition, said Monday that despite the change,
the road could still harm the region by spurring
more residential development. The Stop I-3 Coalition
also opposes improvements or widening of U.S. Highway 64, or Corridor K,
through the Ocoee Gorge in Tennessee, between
Chattanooga and the North Carolina border." Read
more...