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Dear Mr. Lewis,
I am a resident of Waynesville, NC, and my family has had property in the Stecoah Valley for years, near the proposed $378 million dollar road expansion your department is planning on. We are strongly opposed to this destructive, expensive and untimely project.
This project looks backwards instead of forwards. Instead of doing a basic improvement that allows commercial traffic to get through these steep mountains and continue supplying consumers with the goods they need, the road is overly-large and destroys some of the most beautiful, treasured forestland left in America.
In a time when financial resources are scarce and growing scarcer, and our current bridges, roads, sidewalks, greenways and other high-use infrastructure needs repair badly--I can think of plenty right here in Waynesville--why invest such a huge sum of money on this unnecessarily-large project?
I urge you at the Department of Transportation to scale this plan back to something that is more economical, less-destructive and that better protects the valuable forests in that beautiful valley.
Finally, I remind you that all eyes across the nation are watching western North Carolina's road building after the terrible rock slide that just happened on I-40. Jesus teaches in the New Testament that a fool, only thinking of today, builds his house on sand. Let's not be short-sighted about this project. It is best to be conservative in any kind of building, thinking long-term about how it will hold up over changing weather patterns and other natural forces.
Sincerely,
Mary Alice Lamb
Waynesville, NC 28786
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