Smart FIX 40 and such
First of all…THANK YOU TDOT FOR FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO FIXING DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE, even if it does affect my drive to church for the next 14 months. I am leaving 10 minutes earlier Sunday, regardless of what the wife thinks…LOL.., and all should be well. Fourteen months of inconvince is worth the rest of my life driving on three FULL lanes of Interstate through downtown.
Yes, I know this should have been done in the 70’s, but hey back then half of Knoxville fought it and the other half moved to Farragut and started working in Oak Ridge so there you go. Regardless of the timing it is time and I appreciate it. Bottomline thanks, good luck, and do good work ASAP… (13 1/2 months would be even nicer wouldn’t it?)
Now for my next point. Mr. Nicely start the Knoxville Beltway in 14 months. You got B&B here, you got the machinces, you got the workers here, you got the gas taxes, you got EPA warnings that could drop with less congestion, so get to paving and building and such. If you can do the downtown thing in 14 months with all the traffic and roads around it, I think you can do the Orange route in 3 years since there fewer roads and less traffic to contend with. So, 2012 or early 2013 I would love to see a finished beltway around Ktown. Worst case give me Lenoir City to the Oak Ridge Hwy area by 2012.
Then Knoxville, and it’s visitors, can get on with our bizness.
