From: Dennis Desmond [mailto:DDesmond@ltlt.org]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:35 AM
To: sales@smokymtnbikes.com
Subject: FW: WaysSouth Summer Newsletter
Attention Bikers and Bicycle Riders
By: Richard St. John
Volunteers are needed to reach out to this huge two-wheel community about WaysSouth. If we can show bikers what we are fighting for and why, they will understand how vital it is for them to have their voices heard. Read more...
Dennis Desmond, LTLT
From: WaysSouth [mailto:WaysSouth@mail.vresp.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 12:15 PM
To: Dennis Desmond
Subject: WaysSouth Summer Newsletter
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Click here to read the Summer Newsletter with full text and pictures at our website. |
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| Through its Stop I-3 project, WaysSouth continues to work with our contact at the Federal Highway Administration. The administration says that the study is now a "top priority." The money is still available and will remain so unless rescinded. Many thanks to those of you who responded to our action alert and wrote to Dr. Orszag in the Office of Management and Budget asking for the money to be rescinded. If you have not had a chance to write, click here for more background and instructions. In our Corridor K North Carolina project, we are continuing to raise awareness in Graham County, N.C., about the advantages of alternative transportation improvements to Highway 74, which do not involve a new interstate grade four-lane road that ruins the magnificent vistas of this part of Western North Carolina and interferes with the quiet and solitude of the Appalachian Trail. As proposed in the draft study, the 10-mile $378 million segment would require a half-mile tunnel and would not shorten travel time as compared to existing routes. Click here to read the letter that WaysSouth, along with 16 other organizations, wrote to the North Carolina Department of Transportation requesting public input sessions. We currently anticipate two sessions (Robbinsville and Sylva) in late 2009 or early 2010. Read more... |
| Keeping Fuel In the Tank By: Lucy E. Bartlett, Chair, WaysSouth Board of Directors |
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| In This Issue: | New WaysSouth Director Betty Petty |
| Betty Petty Puts Passion in Action |
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| Chattanooga Hiking Club - top left to right- Steve Barnes, Ralph Van Pelt,Doug Cooper, bottom left to right, Ken Jones, Betty Petty, Donald Box |
| Profile of a New WaysSouth Director Betty Petty is passionate about hiking the Tennessee mountains and doesn't hesitate to put her passion into action to protect those mountains. Although she is one of the newest directors on the WaysSouth Board, Petty comes as a seasoned grassroots activist. She is deeply involved in citizen efforts to ensure that wise and rational decisions are made in planning routes for the Corridor K highway through Tennessee. Read more... |
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| WaysSouth is pleased to announce the Another exciting tool has been added to WaysSouth's outreach arsenal – Facebook! You can become a Facebook "fan" of WaysSouth or make donations securely through our new |
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| Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition is the newest organization to join WaysSouth's cadre of supporting organizations, adding to our toolbelt of skills, contacts and capacity to promote responsible transportation in Southern Appalachia. A local conservation nonprofit, this coalition's mission is to facilitate water quality improvements in lakes and streams throughout the upper Hiwassee River watershed within North Carolina's Cherokee and Clay counties and Georgia's Towns and Union counties. Read more... |
| A Tale of Two Partnerships |
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| Every six years, Congress sets the country's transportation and infrastructure priorities — allocating hundreds of billions of dollars for projects that shape our communities for generations. The implications of the federal transportation bill, from the priorities set to specific earmarks, have a profound effect on Southern Appalachia. Interstate 3 was an earmark in the 2005 bill. Read more... |
| "So what's all the excitement The issues that join WaysSouth and Corridor K at the hip stir emotions and may appear complex. Volunteer Wally Editor | Attention Bikers and Bicycle Riders Volunteers are needed to reach out to this huge two-wheel community about WaysSouth. If we can show bikers what we are fighting for and why, they will understand how vital it is for them to have their voices heard. Read more... |
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| Romancing for Volunteers | |
| As you know, WaysSouth depends on your donations to do our work – without your support, we cannot function. Your gift, however, does not have to be money; time is also important. | |
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| Putting Freight Back on Track By: Grace Trimble, WaysSouth Board of Directors | |
| What role does rail play in developing sustainable and responsible transportation solutions for the Southern Appalachians? That is the question that some 10 volunteers for WaysSouth are working to answer. Led by Bob Grove of Brasstown, N.C., who also serves on the Corridor K task force, WaysSouth's rail task force has spent the past year developing a scope of work and conducting research to determine whether improved rail infrastructure using existing rights of way might take the place of a new four-lane highway through the mountains that would destroy thousands of acres of national forest. Read more... |
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