WaysSouth has learned that the North Carolina Department of Transportation will be holding a public hearing on its potentially devastating Corridor K project in Graham County, North Carolina. The hearing will be May 17, 2011 at Robbinsville High School, 301 Sweetwater Road, Robbinsville, NC 28771. There will be a pre-hearing open house beginning at 4:30 p.m. and a formal hearing, including opportunities for input from the public, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
This is your opportunity to tell NCDOT why it should truly consider improving the existing roads rather than building an entirely new four-lane highway that is unnecessary, unaffordable, and destructive.
As the hearing gets closer, WaysSouth will provide suggestions for points to raise at the hearing and will be coordinating activities to get people to Robbinsville to speak. In the meantime, you can:
- See NCDOT’s official announcement of the public hearing at http://www.ncdot.org/doh/preconstruct/pe/ohe/publicinv/Notice/Graham_A9BC_042011.pdf
- Learn more about Corridor K and its impacts at http://www.wayssouth.org/campaigns/corridor-k/;
- See NCDOT’s official Corridor K materials, including its completely inadequate rejection of improving the existing roads in Graham County, at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/US74Relocation/;
- Let us know if you’d like to help organize activities around the hearings by emailing us at info@wayssouth.org.
Thanks for your interest in sustainable transportation in the Southern Appalachians, and we look forward to seeing you on May 17.