Stopping Interstate 3:Providing Responsible Transportation for Appalachia

Chance Finegan29.03.09

From mountains to asphalt and smog...

History of Interstate 3

• Study funded in 2005oSafe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users

• $1.32 million to study the idea of building a new Knoxville – Savannah interstate highway

• Purpose to connect Oak Ridge and Georgia nuclear sites and benefit economy

• Would cut through at least three national forests and Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Source: www.stopi3.org

Transportation network between Savannah and Knoxville

$25,000,000 per mile = $10,475,000,000

Can America afford to build an unwanted road?

The Reality of Interstate 3

Myth Fact

• I-3 will improve the economy

• I-3 will save travel time

• I-3 will boost tourism

• I-3 will hurt second home development and increase imports from Port of Savannah

• I-3 would be longer than existing Interstate connectors

• I-3 will destroy the very mountains that people come to see

Help Fight Interstate 3

Contact Your Congressmen

Support the Stop I-3 Effort

• Join WaysSouth• Serve on a task force• Donate your time or

money• Just ask Chance or

email volunteer@wayssouth.org

• Dial 731-423-9344 for Sen. Alexander's Jackson office

• Dial 731-424-9655 for Sen. Corker's Jackson office

• Dial 731-885-7070 for Rep. Tanner's Union City office

Lucy Bartlett, Chair, WaysSouth Board of Directors

“The time for organizing and preparing is rapidly coming to an end and the real reason we exist is approaching.”