Toll roads flopping

It looks like people in Tennessee don't like toll roads. This has got to be a smack to some of the out of touch in Nashville who said toll roads would do every thing short of cure baldness. To say people don't like it must mean people hate them because for the longest time TDOT turned a deaf ear as Knoxvillians came out in droves against them and kept on pushing the idea till the end.

Now they are down to 3 hopefulls from the 8 originally planned.

From the article....

TDOT will continue narrowing the rest of the toll project list and consider the feasibility of each. The three remaining are toll bridges near Chattanooga and Memphis and a toll road that would loop around the city of Clarksville.

The Hadley Bend Connector could still be built — but not in the near future, and probably not as a toll road. The connector is included in the Metropolitan Planning Organization's long-term plan, which looks ahead to about 2030.

State Rep. Mike Turner, D-Old Hickory, said he was pleased that Hadley Bend was finally scuttled as a tollway. His constituents did not support the project because of construction headaches and lack of need to travel north.

"You never say never," Turner said. "Right now, in the next few years, we don't see the need for it. Obviously, we need to look at all transportation needs for the area."

It is good to see one more rep stand with his constituents against the toll roads. One has to wonder why it was ever even on the list when most people in the area think
there was never much of a need to travel north in the first place.